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What’s Your Home Worth? Look at the Address Name
One of the best things about buying property is that it isn’t just a place to live, but also an investment. With any luck, and barring any catastrophic economic meltdown, your home will go up in value as you live in it. But how much will it go up? The answer may depend on… Read More »
What is Partition and When is it Used?
There are many kinds of legal situations, where real property, like homes, need to be divided up. When properties have multiple owners, and they both have a claim to the value of the property, and one wants to “cash out” and get the value of his or her equity in the property, there often… Read More »
What Should be in a Typical Shareholders Agreement?
If you have or are starting a business, and your business has shareholders, those shareholders will undoubtedly want (and deserve) a shareholders agreement. Of course, the hope Is that you would go see a qualified business or corporate law attorney to help you with the task of drawing up a shareholders agreement, but it… Read More »
What is Inheritance Theft?
Sometimes, when we expect to get an inheritance and we don’t get one, or we don’t get the inheritance that we expected, we can challenge the will or other estate documents. Maybe it can be argued that the deceased was not competent, or that someone exerted influence on the deceased, that caused us to… Read More »
Access to Digital Records in Probate-How Does it Happen?
When you create an estate plan, you probably try to make sure that all of the assets you own are accounted for; that they are being left to whom you want to leave them to, or at least that they are being disposed of in the way that you like. You are creating a… Read More »
Problems Can Happen When Your Business Goes Through Probate
When planning an estate, we often give a lot of thought to our personal property, or our real property. Many of us however, fail to give thought to our business. We see our business as a separate entity, insulated from our personal passing, and just envision the business carrying on as usual after you… Read More »
Are Your Arbitration Clauses Enforceable?
Arbitration clauses in contracts can be good or bad, beneficial or harmful, depending on who you are. But in discussing the matter of arbitration with a business attorney, you may come to the decision to include an arbitration clause in your business contracts. If you do, there are things you need to do, to… Read More »
Reformation of Wills and Trusts in Probate Court
Sometimes, people create wills and trusts and other estate plans, and mistakes happen. Sometimes, the estate documents that are created are wrong, or else, don’t accurately reflect the wishes of the person who created them. When that happens, interested parties can ask a probate court to alter the will, to reflect what the deceased… Read More »
Things You May Not Have Known About Undue Influence and Will Challenges
One of the primary ways that wills and trusts are challenged by others in the probate courts is through what is known as undue influence. What is Undue Influence? Undue influence means that someone has exerted some kind of pressure or coercion on the deceased while he or she was alive, and that pressure… Read More »
Does Your Business Need a Remote Work Agreement?
The COVID-19 shutdowns are long behind us, and the world has seemingly moved on from most of the COVID-based restrictions. But some of the ways we adapted to the pandemic shutdowns are still with us today. One of those adaptations is working from home. Many employers and businesses found that allowing employees to work… Read More »
