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Spishak-Thomas became a leading researcher on the issue after her grandmother died and the state where she lived filed a claim against the estate, forcing her uncle to sell the house to pay the bill.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

If you don’t defend against Medicaid estate recovery, states are required to go looking for reimbursement, and real estate is often the only asset left.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

In 2026, the lifetime federal estate and gift tax exemption is $15 million per person, so a taxable gift uses part of the donor’s available lifetime exemption; just file IRS Form 709 if required.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

My last column, What to Ask When Your Adviser Pushes Private Funds, offered a set of questions investors can ask when someone pitches “alternatives” like private equity or nontraded real estate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

With Jinky no longer being a putative heir, the remaining contenders for the estate were Miyoko Watai, the Targ nephews, and the U.S.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

Much less populous Iowa pursued 16,279 estates and recovered $25 million from 3,397 of them.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

I’m a writer who has been sent out on assignment to the stucco estates of suburban Los Angeles to profile a young socialist named Hasan Piker.

From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2026

For some families with complex estates, consolidating accounts and assets under one trustee can help everything run more smoothly.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026

The area is lined with sweeping dunes and waterfront estates that make it comparable to Cape Cod and the Hamptons.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

The kings also settled Macedonian soldiers on estates throughout the country.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro

Roger North tells us that “they admitted all strangers that were confidingly introduced, for it was a main end of their institutions to make proselytes, especially of the raw estated youth newly come to town.”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various

He was an estated gentleman, and songs were made about his family.

From Three Plays by Padraic Colum

But Thaddeus, otherwise Thady Macdermot, being an estated gentleman, must have a gentleman's residence on his estate, and the house of Ballycloran was accordingly built.

From The Macdermots of Ballycloran by Anthony Trollope

I mean, of course, of the elder branch, for there are swarms of the others, well to do and prosperous also, and with fine estated properties.

From A Day's Ride A Life's Romance by Charles James Lever

Had Thady Macdermot had ready money, it might have been well built; but though an estated gentleman, he had none.

From The Macdermots of Ballycloran by Anthony Trollope