The peril of family asset transfers | Dale Barrett

By Dale Barrett ( May 28, 2019, 1:36 PM EDT) -- Most people don’t think twice before transferring assets between family members. Why would they? People deposit money into each other’s accounts. They put each other’s names on their properties in order to get mortgages. They sell assets to one another for one dollar. They move closely held company shares back and forth. And they inadvertently create massive tax problems for themselves, some of which are impossible to fix....