DeAngelis Legal dissolved several entities that had either sold their assets or had terminated their business operations. Taking the time to formally and correctly terminate the entity with the Arizona Corporation Commission reduces the risk of identity fraud and accelerates the statute of limitations so future claims are barred. DeAngelis Legal advised the owners on [...]
DeAngelis Legal formed several new entities from standard real estate holding companies to entities created to capitalize on opportunities caused by the COVID-19 outbreak. DeAngelis Legal assisted the clients in identifying the correct entity, including the clients' perspectives on privacy, liability protection, complexity and income tax preferences. DeAngelis Legal prepared the formation documents including articles [...]
Represented a Scottsdale couple with the preparation of a comprehensive review of their estate plan. Both spouses in this second marriage had children from their prior marriages and maintained both separate and combined finances. DeAngelis Legal identified issues, including tax implications and inequities in their proposed structure, identified potential solutions and drafted the appropriate changes [...]
DeAngelis Legal spent a substantial amount of time advising business owners with employment, insurance, real estate and operational matters caused by the COVID-19 outbreak, essentially acting as in-house counsel for those businesses who are not large enough to hire full time legal counsel. On the employment side, we reviewed employment handbooks and assisted owners with [...]
Not surprisingly, DeAngelis Legal devoted much of the month of April preparing and finalizing estate plans for physicians, nurses and other healthcare workers in preparation for Arizona's COVID-19 outbreak. Everything from simple wills to complex trusts, most of which was done on an expedited basis given the COVID-19 crisis. Preparing these plans required balancing social [...]
Scottsdale couple transferred their personal residences to several irrevocable Qualified Personal Residence Trusts (QPRTs) under the advice of prior counsel. Clients now desired to unwind the transactions. DeAngelis Legal reviewed the facts, trust documents and client’s objectives in order to propose alternatives for terminating the QPRTs in conjunction with the client’s tax and accounting professionals. [...]
DeAngelis Legal’s pandemic planning for businesses is a list of topics you should address in light of the COVID-19 outbreak. For individual topics see Pandemic Planning for Individuals. CARES Act for Businesses. The CARES Act has significant financial benefits for businesses, including employee retention credits, payroll tax deferral, pension funding deferral and income tax relief. A [...]
DeAngelis Legal's pandemic planning for individuals is a list of topics you should address in light of the COVID-19 outbreak. For topics related to businesses see Pandemic Planning for Businesses. CARES Act for Individuals. The CARES Act has many provisions benefiting individuals. These pandemic planning topics are wide ranging from the much discussed rebates, to lesser [...]
DeAngelis Legal assisted its business clients with a variety of COVID-19 related issues. These ranged from employee matters, reviewing and negotiating forbearance agreements with lenders and landlords and interpreting force majeure clauses. We are only scratching the surface of the impact the virus is going to have on businesses and their operations going forward.
Opened informal intestate probate. Father prepared his estate plan documents but never signed them. DeAngelis Legal represented personal representative open an informal intestate probate in Arizona to transfer assets to the beneficiaries. Using Arizona's simplified and expedited informal probate process, the personal representative was able to gain control over the decedent's assets and distribute the [...]
