Dust-Lead Post Abatement Clearance Levels: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Final Rule
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) published a January 7th final rule in the Federal Register addressing the dust-lead clearance levels (“DLCL”). See 86 Fed. Reg. 983. EPA states that it reevaluated the DLCL that was promulgated in 2001. Section 401 and 402 of the Toxic…
Air Enforcement: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and North Salt Lake, Utah, Medical Waste Incinerator Operator Enter into Consent Decree
The United States Department of Justice, on behalf of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, and Stericycle Inc. (“Stericycle”) entered into a January 29th Consent Decree (“CD”) addressing alleged violations of the federal Clean Air Act and Utah air quality regulations. The CD is being…
Asbestos Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality and Hot Springs County Demolition Operator Enter into Consent Administrative Order
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Dennis Prince (“Prince”) entered into a January 12th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations of Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology (“APC&EC”) Regulation 21, (Asbestos…
Portability, Rev. Proc 2017-34 and Potential Estate Tax Legislation
Recently widowed individuals whose deceased spouse’s estate did not make a portability election by the due date for filing an estate tax return -- because the estate either was not aware a portability election was available or required, or determined that a portability election was not necessary…
Yours, Mine and Ours: Estate Planning for a Blended Family
February 8, 2021
by Casey Dorman Lawson
When William Shakespeare wrote “What’s mine is yours, and what is yours is mine,” he likely was not thinking about a blended family. Blending families offer a myriad of challenges, one of which is how the spouses’ assets will be distributed at death. If you are a spouse in a blended family, the…