When selling your home, appearance is everything. Recent research by Zillow reveals the best paint colors to increase buyer interest and garner a higher selling price. However, Zillow also warns of certain colors to avoid. Amanda Pendleton, Zillow home trends expert, tells me that a bright yellow kitchen or a bright red bedroom may do more harm than good. “We found that these two choices can decrease a home’s selling price by $3,915 and $1,987 respectively,” she says. Neutral Wins The Day When I was a child, by bedroom was red, but when we sold my childhood home, the realtor…

Cross-border asset protection planning involves delicate balancing of ensuring that trusts are properly classified because foreign trusts carry significant and expensive reporting obligations that are generally best avoided unless the tax-efficiency and asset protection benefits outweigh the heightened tax and penalty exposure. A foreign trust, contrary to its identification, does not need to be located outside the United States. Some trusts, located domestically, can be classified as foreign trusts under the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) which creates a plethora of generally undesired and unintended consequences. In 2024, the U.S. Treasury, issued long overdue regulations on foreign trust adding additional administrative…