estate
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Here is Fottrell’s advice on how the grandmother can redesign her estate plan with no interference from family members.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
Jamie Peva has spent over three decades selling Georgetown real estate, often traversing the historic neighborhood by bicycle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
An almost empty new build estate has sparked anger because rules state that the houses can be only sold as holiday homes, with one would-be buyer saying her grandparents would be "turning in their graves".
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
Husbands Henry Parra, a 55-year-old aviation software executive and Adam Hlavaty, a 42-year-old real estate developer, also died.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
It was a private hunting estate built in the 1970s.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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There’s also a 40% death tax beyond £325,000 on estates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 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
It could face "fierce opposition" if that means people who would not have faced inheritance tax will now have their estates taxed, the paper adds.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
In 1652, with the political situation seemingly stabilized, Boyle visited Ireland, accompanied by the physician William Petty, to look into his interests in the family estates there.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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There he lived like an estated gentleman, for Prairie du Pont was then nothing but a cluster of tenants around his feet.
From The Chase of Saint-Castin and Other Stories of the French in the New World by Mary Hartwell Catherwood
In fact, Gleeson stood before the public as a kind of guardian of estated property,—the providence of dowagers, widows, and younger children!
From The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) by Charles James Lever
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
This system was, however, especially disadvantageous to one class of estated proprietors, the Municipalities.
From Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society by Sir Henry Sumner Maine
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
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