estate
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“The estate feels very strongly that the evidence paints a different picture,” said Julie Lavoie, a lawyer for the estate who took the case to the Connecticut Supreme Court.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
Webb, from Steve Gooch estate agents, said demand from buyers moving out of cities had helped transform perceptions of the area.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
Photos submitted to the court depict “a massive qualitative difference” between the homes, the estate argued.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
And it could pave the way for other families to more easily win income and estate tax audits in Connecticut and elsewhere.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
Then, a year and a half after Bobby’s death, Marilyn and Jinky traveled to Iceland again, this time to file a claim to his estate.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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When Anderson died more than a decade ago, the Connecticut estate tax kicked in for estates valued above $2 million.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 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
In fact, estates with little or no money can sometimes be the most difficult to administer because debts, creditors and property issues still have to be addressed.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
The charity said there was "a huge community effort" to halt the spread with gamekeepers and other staff from neighbouring estates.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
Thousands of slaves still toiled on vast estates in the hills, growing wheat and olives, herding sheep and goats, and mining salt and copper.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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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 Lever, Charles James
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 Trollope, Anthony
There is many an estated lord couldn't reach you out a fourpenny bit.
From New Irish Comedies by Gregory, Lady
When Councillor Holmes comes down at the assizes, I'll lay a case before him, and I'll wager a trifle, Peter, you will turn out to be an estated gentleman.'
From Lord Kilgobbin by Lever, Charles James
When Barrington was a great estated gentleman with a vast fortune at his command, it cost him wonderfully little thought to contract a loan, or even to sell a farm.
From Barrington Volume II (of II) by Lever, Charles James
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