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Financial Advisor November 2009 Deborah L. Jacobs	Lemons Into Lemonade Whether the recession lingers in 2010 or the economy picks up, clients who transfer property now can reduce the size of a taxable estate while giving their beneficiaries substantial potential for those assets to increase in value later.
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