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	<description>Protect your assets. Safeguard your business.  Plan for  life, death and disability.</description>
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		<title>You can’t write off an item your business isn’t using.</title>
		<link>http://www.galawnotes.com/2012/02/you-cant-write-off-an-item-your-business-isnt-using/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:15:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing off purchases you make through your business is a good deal.  And if you have an S corp, you know lots of tax benefits flow through your business to your personal tax return.   You can write off all sorts of things and save yourself and your business a lot of money.

But you can’t write off an asset the business isn’t using.]]></description>
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		<title>Why your LLC needs a tax return – especially if it’s husband-and-wife-owned.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:49:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Formation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Transactions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IRS]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many CPAs still resist filing a separate partnership return for husband-and wife-owned LLCs. Find out why we recommend doing the separate return in Georgia, for both IRS and liability-shield reasons. ]]></description>
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		<title>Dealing with email frauds: Greetings from Uzbekistan!</title>
		<link>http://www.galawnotes.com/2012/01/dealing-with-email-frauds-greetings-from-uzbekistan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:25:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asset Protection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[email fraud]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The caller was so excited about the email: somebody in Kuala Lumpur had died with the same last name as hers! Who left a $10 million estate! And the email’s gracious writer was happy to help my caller in finding out what part of the $10 million would be her inheritance. She asked my advice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Clauses like our clauses.</title>
		<link>http://www.galawnotes.com/2011/12/the-clauses-like-our-clauses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:03:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Firm News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[staff]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Santa and Mrs. Claus know we’ve been good this year, so they stopped by for a visit.  (Some law firms get lumps of coal.) Happy holidays from our lawyers and staff. &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Fox+Mattson, P.C. welcomes attorney Mandy Reed to the team.</title>
		<link>http://www.galawnotes.com/2011/12/foxmattson-p-c-welcomes-attorney-mandy-reed-to-the-team/</link>
		<comments>http://www.galawnotes.com/2011/12/foxmattson-p-c-welcomes-attorney-mandy-reed-to-the-team/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:58:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Firm News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[attorneys]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mandy Reed joined Fox+Mattson, P.C. in May following graduation from the University of Georgia School of Law.  She recently passed the Georgia bar and we are thrilled to have her as part of our team.]]></description>
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		<title>George Clooney, Estate Planning and “The Descendants”</title>
		<link>http://www.galawnotes.com/2011/12/george-clooney-estate-planning-and-the-descendants/</link>
		<comments>http://www.galawnotes.com/2011/12/george-clooney-estate-planning-and-the-descendants/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Estate Planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[estate planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trustee]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.galawnotes.com/?p=362</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the new movie, &#8220;The Descendants,&#8221; George Clooney is an estate attorney, husband, and father.  He&#8217;s also struggling with a conflict over land his family has owned for generations. As the trustee, Clooney must deal with his money-hungry relatives&#8217; pressure to sell the valuable, unspoiled  property to developers. The film has received great reviews, and it&#8217;s a wake-up call: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are your personal assets protected from your business liabilities?</title>
		<link>http://www.galawnotes.com/2011/10/are-your-personal-assets-protected-from-your-business-liabilities/</link>
		<comments>http://www.galawnotes.com/2011/10/are-your-personal-assets-protected-from-your-business-liabilities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 09:57:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asset Protection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Formation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asset protection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[d/b/a]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LLC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[proprietorship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sole proprietorship]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.galawnotes.com/?p=296</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A proprietorship is the business equivalent of nothing. A vacuum. You’re a proprietorship if you never bothered to incorporate or LLC your business. So proprietorships are the cheesecloth of business entities: everything passes through a proprietorship to its owner &#8212; including creditors. On the asset protection scale of what works, a proprietorship is a zero. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fox+Mattson featured in 2011-2012 LLC Handbook.</title>
		<link>http://www.galawnotes.com/2011/10/foxmattson-featured-in-2011-2012-llc-handbook/</link>
		<comments>http://www.galawnotes.com/2011/10/foxmattson-featured-in-2011-2012-llc-handbook/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:10:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asset Protection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Formation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[asset protection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.galawnotes.com/?p=308</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Fox+Mattson, P.C. has again provided the Georgia model LLC documents for the 2011-2012 edition of the &#8220;Limited Liability Company Handbook&#8221; published by West Thomson Reuters as part of their Securities Law Handbook Series. The Handbook is edited by Mark A. Sargent, Dean of the Villanova University School of Law, and Walter D. Schwidetzky,  Professor at the University of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Tax Break for Caregiver Costs.</title>
		<link>http://www.galawnotes.com/2011/08/new-tax-break-for-caregiver-costs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.galawnotes.com/2011/08/new-tax-break-for-caregiver-costs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 23:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Disability Planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alzheimer's]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[caregiver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chronic illness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dementia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IRS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[long term care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax deduction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Providing care for someone with Alzheimer’s or dementia can be an expensive, long-term problem.  (You know this already, right?  Or been thinking about it?  Sooner or later, everyone thinks about it.) Now you can catch a break. On July 5th, 2011, the United States Tax Court held that expenses you incur for providing unlicensed caregivers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Pet Trust: Protecting your animal after you’re gone.</title>
		<link>http://www.galawnotes.com/2011/08/the-pet-trust-protecting-your-animal-after-youre-gone/</link>
		<comments>http://www.galawnotes.com/2011/08/the-pet-trust-protecting-your-animal-after-youre-gone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 22:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Death Planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Estate Planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[estate planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pet trust]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trust]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The widowed aunt had written in her Will: &#8220;I give $5,000 to [nephew] if he takes care of my cat.&#8221; The nephew put the cat to sleep.  He then demanded the five grand from his aunt’s estate. His reason: &#8220;I took care of the cat.” They ended up in court.  And the judge wisely decided [...]]]></description>
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