The State Atlas · Crossing Brief

When a household crosses state lines, its operating system changes.

A Crossing Brief is prepared for one move — the memo an institution hands a household before a transition. Its job is to coordinate, not to educate: which priorities change, which standing decisions to revisit, and what to do before, during, and after. These are the routes households make most often; the Household Record prepares one for a household's own crossing.

Moving to Arizona

California→Arizonabrief →

Moving to Florida

Illinois→Floridabrief → New York→Floridabrief → New Jersey→Floridabrief → California→Floridabrief → Minnesota→Floridabrief → Connecticut→Floridabrief → Maryland→Floridabrief → Virginia→Floridabrief →

Moving to Nevada

California→Nevadabrief →

Moving to New Hampshire

Massachusetts→New Hampshirebrief →

Moving to North Carolina

New York→North Carolinabrief →

Moving to Pennsylvania

New Jersey→Pennsylvaniabrief →

Moving to Texas

California→Texasbrief → New York→Texasbrief → Illinois→Texasbrief →

Moving to Washington

Oregon→Washingtonbrief → California→Washingtonbrief →
Considering a move that isn't here?
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State law reflects 2025 tax-year law; last reviewed 2026-07-07. Every classification is a summary of state law; where a primary-source citation has been verified, it is linked on the card.

What changed
  • 2026-07-07 — First law-review date and honest per-cell source labeling; primary-source citations verified for Illinois, California, New York, Texas, and Florida (more in progress).
  • 2025 — Washington's 7% (+2.9%) excise on long-term capital gains reflected (enacted 2022).
  • 2025 — New Hampshire's Interest & Dividends tax reflected as fully repealed, effective 2025.
  • 2025 — Illinois estate-tax detail tracks the pending SB 2970 as of the review date.
Illustrative / hypothetical — not a real track record and not advice. The tax-management impact figure is a hypothetical, after-tax result from the retroactive application of a tax-management model to ~30 years of proxy-spliced market data on a single illustrative path; no client capital was invested, and hypothetical performance does not guarantee future results. Intended for sophisticated investors; it may not be relevant to your situation, and your actual figure depends on your own holdings, basis, and bracket. State tax facts reflect tax year 2025 and can change — confirm with a tax advisor. Driftwood Wealth is a registered investment adviser; Form ADV and Form CRS are available at adviserinfo.sec.gov.
Driftwood. State tax law reflects 2025 tax-year law; last reviewed 2026-07-07. The Crossing Brief renders the reasoning graph as an operating document.