Estate and Succession Planning
Dean Mead’s Estate and Succession Planning Department is one of the largest and most respected groups of estate planning attorneys in Florida. We are frequently…
Dean Mead’s Estate and Succession Planning Department is one of the largest and most respected groups of estate planning attorneys in Florida. We are frequently…
Dean Mead’s Tax Department handles tax planning issues for businesses and individuals. The attorneys in our department have extensive experience in a full range of…
This summer, Governor Scott issued Executive Order Nos. 16-155, 16-156 and 16-204 declaring a State of Emergency for Palm Beach, Lee, Martin, and St. Lucie Counties due to toxic algae blooms in local water ways. The emergency declaration was for 120 days from the date of the original Executive Order on June 9, 2016. In…
Read MoreOn November 22, 2016, a federal court in Texas issued an order granting a nationwide preliminary injunction prohibiting implementation of the Department of Labor’s (the “DOL”) new overtime rules, which were scheduled to take effect December 1, 2016 and would affect approximately 4.2 million workers nationwide. As addressed in our prior article, the DOL finalized…
Read MoreFort Pierce, Fla. – Brad Gould – a shareholder at the law firm of Dean, Mead, Minton & Zwemer – served as a presenter at the 2016 Fall Meeting & Education Conference for the American Academy of Attorney-CPAs on November 9, 2016 in Houston, Texas. His topic titled, Tax and Succession Planning for Closely-Held Businesses,…
Read MoreIn Bartell v. Comm’r,[1] the Tax Court held that a reverse like-kind exchange made by a drug store chain which did not qualify for the safe harbor under Rev. Proc. 2000-37,[2] still qualified for non-recognition treatment under Section 1031. The Revenue Procedure was inapplicable because the replacement property was purchased before the publication of the…
Read MoreYou’re not the boss of me… In Part 1 and Part 2 of this series, we learned what it means to live in a common interest community, generally, and what documents are used to establish the community – looking specifically at homeowners association controlled communities (“HOAs”). In this Part 3, we’ll consider the HOA rules…
Read MoreWith the renewed focus on water projects due to discharges from Lake Okeechobee and a recent surge in blue/green algae, there is also a renewed effort to involve private interests in the development of these projects. This series of articles addresses exceptions to the general rule that government payments received by private landowners as a…
Read MoreStephen R. Looney, gave a presentation at the 65th Tulane Tax Institute in New Orleans on November 9, 2016. His presentation titled, “S Corporation Merger & Acquisition Issues” focused on sales of assets, stock sales, and stock sales involving qualified stock purchase acquisitions by S corporations, including the application of Section 336(e), allocation of consideration,…
Read MoreVicki L. Berman and Anna H. Long, attorneys in Dean Mead’s Real Estate Department, were recipients of the Outstanding Networking Achievement of the Year Award during Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW) Orlando’s 13th Annual Celebration of Champions Awards Gala on November 4, 2016. Fellow CREW Orlando members who also received this award for the collaboration…
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