United States: Wills/ Intestacy/ Estate Planning

California's Professional Fiduciaries Act imposes heightened duties on licensed fiduciaries to detect and respond to financial elder abuse within trust estates. When vulnerable adults face exploitation from family members, caregivers...

For pet owners who consider their animals family members, a pet trust provides a legally enforceable mechanism to ensure continued care if the owner becomes incapacitated or dies. Both New Jersey and New York now explicitly authorize these arrangements, allowing funds to be set aside and trustees to be appointed with enforceable duties to act in the animal's best interests.

The Acting Attorney General has issued a final order rescheduling certain marijuana products to Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act, effective April 22, 2026. This landmark shift in federal drug policy creates significant legal and business implications across pharmaceutical, cannabis, healthcare, tax, and regulatory compliance sectors, though the rescheduling is notably narrow and conditional rather than a broad reclassification of marijuana.