Before it's Too Late, consider a Life Estate

During their lifetime, people acquire many assets. These assets often include real property such as houses and land. They also may have a large amount of cash in savings accounts and CD's, as well as stocks and bonds. If a person becomes ill and cannot provide for him or herself, they may need to be placed in an assisted living program. As often discussed in the news, these programs and facilities are not cheap to say the least...

You Don't Have to Have an Estate to Have an Estate Plan

A  Cautionary Tale
I recently had a daughter call about bringing her mother to me to draw up a trust. I questioned why the mother wasn't calling me herself which should have happened since the mother, not the daughter, would be my client. I asked the daughter some typical screening questions over the phone to gain an understanding of how lucid her mother was. The daughter assured me that though her mother was aging,...

What are mesothelioma lawsuits and how do they arise?

Mesothelioma lawsuits are filed by the victims of mesothelioma to avail reparations for medical expenses, pain & suffering and loss of income associated with the growth of this disease. Mesothelioma is a kind of cancer, which is inflicted by exposure to asbestos most frequently used in industrial and residential places till the late seventies. The numbers of mesothelioma victims were on the rise as the employers...

New York, as most states, has many concerns when it comes to ex-offenders who are seeking to assert rights in Family Court orfamily lawcases.  And although the legislature, bureacrats and society at large claims to appreciate when someone has served their time, the reality is that when it comes to sensitive topics, such as custody of a minor child, an ex-convict's past can and most likely will come back to haunt them.

In child custody cases for instance, there is no...

VICTIMOLOGY

ABSTRACT

This paper aims at highlighting some of the aspects that are related with the rape and the steps that are employed to punish or prosecute the offenders. Actually rape victims are stigmatized such that some cannot communicate or elaborate fully what happened in the act. Therefore, it is the work of this paper to give out the main procedures that are involved to put down the offender into books knowing very well that rape victims might be young people as...

Community Notifications and Gang Stalking

Targeted Individuals have spent several years trying to understand the mechanisms that would allow the type of targeting that is happening to them to exist. Many have tried to understand how a system could exist that could monitor and track them 24/7. That could follow them from community to community. A structure that could label them, even from country to country.

Most targets see themselves as innocent individuals....

Assisted living facilities are rapidly becoming the nursing homes of the future. According to the National Academy for State Health Policy, more than 36,000 licensed facilities are operating nationwide.[1] Because there is no common definition for these facilities, however, this number may not adequately reflect their prevalence.

Although most litigation in the long-term-care field over the last 10 years has involved nursing homes, suits against assisted living facilities are...

Coming into 2007, Avandia was one of the best selling prescription medications in the United States. A series of negative medical studies have cast doubts on the safety of the drug and have started to take their toll on Avandia's sales.

The trouble for Avandia began in May, 2007 when a Cleveland Clinic study showed that patients taking Avandia had a 43% greater risk of suffering a heart attack. The study which was published in the New England journal of Medicine, reviewed...

Don’t get burned by the new UK fire regulations

New fire safety regulations came into force in October 2006, how will they affect your business?
In 2004 (England and Wales) fire and rescue services attended over 33,400 fires in non-domestic buildings. These fires killed 38 people and injured over 1300!
Fire also costs money. The cost of a fire can be high and afterwards many businesses do not reopen. In 2004, the costs as a consequence of fire, including...

Most times when people are arrested for driving under the influence, the first thing they want to know is how to get out of a DUI charge. Since DUI is a criminal offense, so there's really no easy answer.

If you're arrested and charged with DUI, you'll have to go through a criminal trial and administrative hearings concerning your driving privileges, if you're not able to make a plea bargain. Trying to handle all of these proceedings by yourself is probably the fastest way to...