Estate Tax Will Be Impossible To Pay Off Forcing Sale

In 2005, Elizabeth Marshall Maybee inherited a 3000-acre Northern California ranch from her grandmother that had been in the family since the 1880s. However, “the Marshall Ranch, which survived the Great Depression and survived a case of eminent domain for the...
Family Firm Values Drive Policy Preferences

Family Firm Values Drive Policy Preferences

In order to understand what is most troubling to family firms, survey respondents were asked to rank the importance of various public policy issues. The issue that got the strongest response was “reducing the deficit and debt.” Successful family firms embrace a sense...