If you’ve ever seen the popular BBC daytime show called Heir Hunters, you’ll have seen stories about tracking down the rightful heirs to estates when someone has died without making a will. Often, the deceased will have made promises to friends about what will happen after their death, but without [...] Read more »
What Is An Enduring Power Of Attorney?
What is a Power of Attorney? A Power of Attorney (“POA”) is a legal document that allows you to appoint another person, or persons to act on your behalf in relation to your financial and property affairs while you are still alive. Examples of the types of powers that an [...] Read more »
7 Millionaire Money Making Steps
There are seven common factors to people who create net fortunes of a million dollars or even more. Currently, there is a lot of personal wealth in America, but still a good number of Americans aren’t wealthy. Although the citizens might be hard working, educated, average to high-income earners, very [...] Read more »
What To Do If You’ve Been Named A Beneficiary
The stresses, strains and emotional upheaval that occur after someone dies are often compounded by difficulties in understanding the legalities and taxes surrounding a person’s will. Being named as a beneficiary to someone’s will can be quite difficult, so here are a few pieces of information to help. Thresholds In [...] Read more »
How Employers Can Prevent Sexual Harassment In The Workplace
Since the Civil Rights Act was passed in 1964, employers across the nation have been called on to enforce policies against sexual harassment in the workplace. Sexual harassment can make employees uncomfortable at work and can lead to much more serious consequences for the company, such as decreased productivity and [...] Read more »
What Should One Include In Their Will?
Nobody likes to dwell on what will happen when their life comes to an end, but the reality is that we all die sooner or later and something must be done with our stuff when we’re gone. Even though most places have laws for the automatic handling of a person’s [...] Read more »
Buying Alternative Investments Require Extra Attention
To select among individual investments, whether conventional or alternative, you need to evaluate the specific merits of each and filter down to one that makes sense for you. This process is especially important when choosing alternative investments, which are among the most complicated asset classes in modern investing. Proper selection [...] Read more »
Thriving Beyond Midlife: Where Will You Live?
In 2008, leading edge Baby Boomers encountered the ultimate icon of the aging process: we turned 62 and become eligible for (reduced) Social Security benefits. While most lawyers in practice will defer enrolling for benefits at least until their normal retirement age (66 for Boomers born between 1943 and 1954), [...] Read more »
Understand The “Time Element” In Property Insurance
Property insurance can be pretty straightforward, but few professionals have mastered the fine points of insuring against the loss of business income (and/or the addition of extra expenses) that occurs after direct damage to property. Many insurance practitioners agents/brokers, risk managers/commercial insurance buyers, claims adjusters misunderstand how these programs are [...] Read more »
Can You Analyze A Property-Casualty Insurance Policy?
Practicing attorneys may need to read and critique an insurance policy for a variety of reasons. In litigation, your client may wonder if his liability insurance will properly pay for defense costs and damages. A client might have suffered a loss and then encountered a reluctant claims adjuster: are the [...] Read more »