Estate tax planners have long employed intentionally defective grantor trusts to freeze the value of an asset for estate tax purposes while transferring assets out of the estate free of gift tax. An ...

An intentionally defective grantor trust, or IDGT, is not merely one of the most amusing terms in personal finance, but also a powerful tool for legally transferring the most wealth possible to your ...

A manufacturer of amazing medical devices known as cochlear implants, which restore hearing to the deaf, sold defective implants to young children and adults for years — even after learning that a ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Doretha Clemons, Ph.D., MBA, PMP, has been a corporate IT executive and professor for 34 ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. An appeals court held that the company was ‘pivotal’ to the sale of a defective battery that injured a customer ...