Kentucky Estates: articles on charitable planning issues
The announcement this week of the closure of Sweet Briar College after the end of this semester was significant and sad news. Sweet Briar was pressured by declining enrollment and a deterioration in pricing power. The board’s decision to yield to this trend while the college still has a large endowment to help fund an […]
Families at all levels of wealth commonly include charitable giving as a part of their estate plans. This is gratifying for the families, and absolutely essential to maintaining and building excellence in so many civic areas, including hospitals, social services, conservation, the arts, and education. It’s also true, however, that the business cultures of the […]
It is not often that the GWOT affects the world of T&E law, but the Supreme Court’s June 21 6-3 opinion in Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project, 561 U.S. ____ (2010) is an exception to the general rule. The opinion upheld the Patriot Act provision providing for fines and up to 15 years’ imprisonment for persons […]
KYEstates has previously noted that when the mainstream media covers matters of interest to the T&E Community, results can be spotty in quality or usefulness. Last week, the New York Times published an exception to this rule – a very important article warning that up to 400,000 nonprofit organizations (i.e., up to one-fourth of the nation’s nonprofits) are […]
T&E Community – although KYEstates focuses on T&E law matters, when we learn information useful to our readers, we will pass it along. Many KYEstates readers serve as directors of nonprofit boards, or work in fundraising or planned giving for nonprofits, and that’s why we think this Business First article will be interesting. The article […]