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Ninth Circuit affirms transferred residential property must be included in gross estate.

The Ninth Circuit, affirming the Tax Court, has ruled that the full fair market value of residential property must be included in the decedent's gross estate, finding that the decedent retained income and economic enjoyment from the property and that the inter vivos transfer of the property was not a bona fide sale for adequate and full consideration under Sec. 2036(a) (Estate of Bigelow, 9th Cir., 9/14/2007, aff'g TC Memo 2005-65).

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Virginia A. Bigelow (Bigelow) gave each of her three children a 1/175th undivided interest in her residence (the Sand Point Road property) in 1990 or 1991. In 1991, she executed a trust agreement and deed, transferring her remaining ...

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