Posts tagged Estate

• Falling trees: The silent danger in storms

  Jim Lewis | November 20, 2009 9:17 PM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA Category: Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)
  

  Last week’s nor’easter has reminded us of a silent danger – large trees at risk of falling down in a storm and injuring someone. The risk of injury isn’t trivial – a...

• Recession Yells "FORE!"

  Steve Lombardi | October 23, 2009 10:18 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  How do we know when the recession has officially hit home? How about when it hits the ultra exclusive country club in town Glenn Oaks? It’s being reported that West Bank will be taking over...

• Elder Care Issues?...You Don't Have to Face Them Alone

  Carrie Strasser | September 25, 2009 3:20 PM | 0 CommentsStoughton / Canton, MA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  The New York Times reported on a new trend in dealing with caring for elderly parents: hiring geriatric care managers. These professionals act as caseworkers for a family grappling with housing...

• Condo market in Orange Beach, Alabama looks to rebound....

  Troy Schwant | July 26, 2009 11:05 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  As the condo market falls on the Gulf Coast, developers are looking to get out from crushing debt, and are beginning to auction off their condominium units at rock bottom prices. This past weekend,...

• Is it Fraud?

  Jon Lewis | July 15, 2009 6:30 PM | 0 CommentsBirmingham, AL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  What is fraud? What is misrepresentation? Many people think they have been defrauded when they have not, and many people don't know that they have been defrauded when they actually have been. In...

• A family's legal remedies when a loved one dies from someone's negligence

  David Mittleman | May 01, 2009 12:14 PM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Wrongful Death
  

  If tragedy strikes and one of your relatives dies as a result of someone’s negligence, Michigan’s wrongful death statute permits the family of the lost loved one to bring forth a...

• New Supreme Court session seen as worth watching.

  Wayne Parsons | February 06, 2009 9:23 AM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Forbes (2/5, Fisher) reported, Cases recalling the commercial struggles of the early United States, the fate of 1.2 million acres of Hawaiian real estate and the question of whether judges should be...

• Hawaii Wrongful Death Claim

  Wayne Parsons | January 07, 2009 12:55 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Wrongful Death
  

  January 4, 2009 A wrongful death occurs when someone is killed as a result of the negligent or reckless actions of another person. In situations where a person's actions are intended to harm or...

• Florida Foreclosures At Number 3 Nationwide

  Internal Administrator | October 18, 2008 2:35 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Often times a hit-and-run driver is never apprehended. They get away knowing they can get away with it. That was not the case with the driver who hit Darryl Green. Darryl Green was in the wrong...

• Who Receives Wrongful Death Proceeds in North Carolina?

  Nathan Hull | September 08, 2008 5:15 PM | 0 CommentsCharlotte, NC Category: Wrongful Death
  

  Handling estates involving wrongful death proceeds can be somewhat more complex than a standard estate administration. Instead of relying on the law of the State of domicile for all matters it is...