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Personal Injury Cases as Probate Assets: How Do They Work?
Of all the assets and property that you may think of when thinking of property that is part of someone’s estate, there is one asset that often is overlooked—personal injury claims. Often, people pass away after they are injured, or even while a personal injury claim is pending in court. A Big Dilemma The… Read More »
1031 Exchanges Can Help You Flip Real Estate
So you have it figured out: you’re going to make money flipping real estate. Buy, fix up, and sell for a profit. All of the profit that you make off one deal, you roll over into the other. Except you can’t roll everything you make in one deal into another. That’s because all of… Read More »
Elective Shares and Surviving Spouses in the Probate Process
When you make or create a will or estate plan, you assume it is solid, and that your wishes, as expressed in that plan, will be carried out to the letter. And that is mostly true…except for one area where your will or estate plan can be overridden: the elective share. What is an… Read More »
Collecting a Judgment? Exemptions Can Make it a Difficult Task
If you are collecting a judgment, or someone owes you money and you have a judgment for that money, you may think it’s an easy process to collect what you owe. But if you are going after an “average Joe,” that is, someone who is generally middle class, and may have some but not… Read More »
Property Deeds: They Aren’t All the Same
When you sell or purchase real estate you probably already know that the deed to the property transfers from one person to another and that the deed is recorded in the public records. But a deed is not just a deed; there are actually various kinds of deeds, all which serve a very specific… Read More »
Surveys: Why Do You Even Need Them?
There are a lot of steps to the typical real estate closing. One of those steps is the survey. This sounds like a useless requirement. After all, property lines should be well established, and it doesn’t look like anybody’s stuff is going onto anybody else’s property. There doesn’t appear to be any fighting over… Read More »
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 »
