Happy New Year to you and your family from Greenhalgh Legal Services!  Here’s hoping that 2012 is the best year ever for all of us!  Welcome To Our Email Newsletter Service!  Starting this month, you are receiving our new email newsletter with important announcements about upcoming activities here at Greenhalgh Legal Services, important law changes, client workshops, and client appreciation events.  Of course, if you want to discontinue receiving these emails, please let us know, but otherwise welcome aboard, and we look forward to keeping you up-to-date for many years to come via email! Greenhalgh Legal Services Client Maintenance Plan is here!  As of January 1, 2012, Greenhalgh Legal Services has a client maintenance plan for all our estate planning clients designed to give you and your family the utmost in protection with regard to avoiding guardianship, probate, and death taxes while ensuring that your estate passes to all your heirs

With the holidays upon us, naturally we all think of the old adage, “it is better to give than to receive.”  From a tax standpoint, this has never been more true than in 2011!  Let’s start with gifts to individuals.  For several years now, the annual federal gift tax exclusion amount has been set at $13,000.  This means you can give as many gifts as you like to as many people as you like without any tax ramifications at all (no tax owed by you, no tax owed by the gift recipient, and no tax return filing) so long as you do not give cash or property worth more than $13,000 to any one person.  If you would like to give more than $13,000 to someone, you can use your lifetime federal gift tax exclusion amount to avoid paying federal gift tax, but you will need to file a Form

     Greetings and Happy Holidays from Greenhalgh Legal Services!  As 2011 draws to a close, we wish you and your family a most blessed Christmas and the happiest of New Years!      GREENHALGH LEGAL SERVICES NEWSLETTER GOING OUT VIA EMAIL!  Beginning January, 2012 our Greenhalgh Legal Services monthly newsletter will be sent through email to all our clients who have email addresses.  If you have not done so already, be sure to let Kris Helms know your current email address so we can include you.  We look forward to being able to communicate with you directly via this exciting medium.       Be Sure to Attend Our Client Appreciation Event in December!  On December 8, 2011, we will present our final Client Appreciation Event for 2011 at the Clarion Hotel.  Baraboo accountant Walter D. Smith will update you on all the 2011 tax law changes you need to know about to