Happy New Year’s Eve!  For those of you thinking about your New Year’s Resolutions for 2013, I recommending getting your estate planning in order.  Kudos goes out to Daniel Timins, a law school classmate of mine, for putting together some excellent New York estate planning and medicaid presentations. This presentation gives a nice overview of [...]

As my readers know, not only am I a food and agriculture lawyer but I also have a family and matrimonial law practice.  I wanted to point out a helpful organization here in New York City for you folks who may be going through a separation or divorce:  FamilyKind. It offers separate classes for adults, [...]

I’m home for the holidays visiting family in Illinois.  I hope all of my readers are having a wonderful holiday season so far.  And remember that the holiday season is a perfect opportunity to have *that* conversation with your family…  Safe travels! Tweet

As I noted in this post, a limited partnership is choice of entity that could be utilized by a farm or agri-business.  With limited partnerships, there are two classes of partners:  (1) general partners and (2) limited partners.  This differs from a general partnership in several ways. The general partners are really the ones “running [...]