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Law Practice

Dec. 21, 2006

Even Santa Needs a Lawyer - Gift Giving Raises Knotty Issues

FORUM COLUMN - By Peter M. Walzer - Long ago, the Scrooge of the law of transmutation intruded into the sanctity of gift giving, but few knew about it. Whether you are giving or receiving that special holiday gift, you should think twice about what it really means.

Forum Column

By Peter M. Walzer
     
      Long ago, the Scrooge of the law of transmutation intruded into the sanctity of gift giving, but few knew about it. Whether you are giving or receiving that special holiday gift, you should think twice about what it really means. In this day and age, it is not just the thought that counts. To make a gift really mean something, you better transmute it.
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