Coordinating Your Estate Plan with Income Tax Planning

One of the major 2018 estate planning themes continues to be the importance of income tax planning within an estate plan.  With high exemption amounts – $22.4 million for a married couple – eliminating estate and income tax upon death is now attainable for all but the very wealthy.  Also of importance is how current law may lead to many clients changing their estate plans, even after the death of the first spouse.

Because the planning and issues pertaining to estate and income tax planning remain so dominant and prevalent, I am reprinting an article I wrote in March 2017 with a colleague on this subject. Read the article here: Tax Management Estates Gifts and Trust Journal Article.

John Dedon Honored in Washingtonian Magazine

Cameron/McEvoy congratulates John Dedon for selection in Washingtonian’s “Top Financial Advisors Hall of Fame.” (February 2023.) John joins a few area lawyers who, for over a decade and year after year, have been named by Washingtonian as one of the top estate lawyers in the region. Since its inception in 2009, Washingtonian has asked hundreds… Read »

John Dedon honored as a Top Lawyer in Two Prominent Local Publications

Coming up in December, John Dedon will be recognized in two prominent local publications. Washingtonian Magazine again names John as a 2023 Top Lawyer in the Trust and Estates category. Washingtonian Magazine chooses Top Lawyers by surveying local lawyers asking them whom they would trust if they needed legal counsel themselves. Northern Virginia Magazine also… Read »

John Dedon Named Top Financial Advisor by Washingtonian Magazine

In the March 2022 publication, John Dedon was again chosen by his peers and Washingtonian Magazine as one of the  “Top Financial Advisors,” in the Estate Attorney section, for Virginia, Maryland and the District.  John has been selected consistently for over a decade, and is routinely named as well for Washingtonian’s “Top Lawyers.”