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Estate Taxes

• Estate & Gift Taxes(U.S. Internal Revenue Service)
• Estates & Fiduciaries FAQs(WI Dept. of Revenue)

The Law (Additional statutes, regulations & opinions may apply to your specific situation.)

• WI Statutes: ch. 72 "Estate Tax"
• U.S. Code: 26 USC 2001-2704 "Estate and Gift Taxes"
• CFR: 26 CFR pt. 20 to pt. 29 "Estate & Gift Taxes"

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County Resources

Court Forms

• Guardianship, Termination of Parental Rights and Probate Forms and Guidelines(Lincoln Register in Probate)
• Probate(Marathon Register in Probate)
  Informal probate checklist, transfer by affidavit checklist, non-probate of filed will, petition and order waiving fiduciary income tax return, special administration checklist.

Guides

• Estates & Probate(Adams Register in Probate)
• Estates & Probate(Barron Register in Probate)
• Estates & Trusts(Fond du Lac Register in Probate)
  Information, formal, special administration, summary assignment and settlement, transfer by affidavit
• Guidelines for Preparing Annual Accounts(Polk Register in Probate)
• Informal Probate Guidelines(Lincoln Register in Probate)
• Miscellaneous Probate Procedures(Lincoln Register in Probate)
• Probate FAQ(Dane Register in Probate)
• Probate FAQs(Polk Register in Probate)
• Probate Guide(Polk Register in Probate)
• Types of Probate(Douglas Register in Probate)
  Ancillary proceedings, formal admin, informal admin, probate benchmarks, special admin, summary assignment, summary settlement, transfer by affidavit

Related Topics

• Estate Planning
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• Legal Assistance
• Medicare & Medicaid
• Tax Law
• Trusts & Wills

Law Review Articles

• New Probate Code Affects Estate Planning at Divorce
  72 Wis Lawyer 3 (Mar 1999)
• Simple Probate Should not be this Complicated
  Wis. L. Rev. 2008:3 (May-June 2008) 575-609
• Time Runs Out on Wisconsin's Estate Tax
  80 Wis Lawyer 12 (Dec 2007)

Library Resources

• Death in Wisconsin: a Legal Practitioners Guide to Postmortem Administration
• Fundamental Probate Procedures & Practice
• Key Issues in Estate Planning & Probate
• Wisconsin Probate System: Forms and Procedures Handbook

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