Nov 11, 2015
Thank you, for the cost you paid for our freedom, thank you for the freedom to live in safety and pursue happiness, for freedom of speech, and for all the freedoms that we daily take for granted. “As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the...
Nov 9, 2015
Join Farner & Perrin, L.L.P., in paying homage to those who serve our country in the air, on land and sea, as we dedicate this month to our American veterans. We are humbled by your service.
Oct 30, 2015
It goes without saying that each of our founding fathers left a lasting national legacy. To wrap up the month of October and our focus on American legal history, the article below details some of the interesting personal legacies left under our forefathers’ Last...
Oct 29, 2015
The U.S. Constitution established the Supreme Court but left it to Congress to decide how many justices should make up the court. The Judiciary Act of 1789 set the number initially at six, and the number fluctuated for the next century until, in 1869, Congress raised...
Oct 27, 2015
Many of our clients express their frustration at an estate tax that seems excessive and unfair. Believe it or not, it could be worse. Prior to 1976, the top estate tax rate was a whopping 77% (and remained at 70% until 1981). Today’s taxation structure imposes...
Oct 19, 2015
“The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.” – The Common Law, by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., who served as an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court from...
