Since you have lifetime medical benefits for the injuries that have been deemed accepted by the insurance carrier, you can pick up treatment wherever you move. You would need to locate a doctor that is willing to treat you for your workers' … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2019
Why You Want an Experienced Attorney After Your Car Accident
Protecting Your Rights When You've Been Injured in a Car Accident Often when you've been injured in a car accident, the facts and circumstances can seem pretty clear cut, giving you the false assumption that you can probably handle your claim … [Read more...]
The 2018 Federal Tax Law Changes You Need to Know
Last year, President Trump signed a new tax-reform bill into law. This new law can have a substantial impact on individual taxpayers starting with the tax year 2018, for which returns are due to be filed by April 15, 2019. Some of the provisions that … [Read more...]
CONDITIONAL PERMANENT RESIDENT vs PERMANENT RESIDENT
Permanent residency can be obtained by immigrants who marry U.S. Citizens. This is a green card renewable every 10 years. There are also cases in which the foreign spouse is given what is called "Conditional Permanent Residency" status. In short, … [Read more...]
The Difference Between a Felony and Misdemeanor Traffic Offense
As a general rule, a misdemeanor results in a shorter period of incarceration, typically less than a year. In addition, a sentence for a misdemeanor it customarily served in a city or county jail, rather than a prison. You can be charged with … [Read more...]
MEDIATION
As I am sitting here today in Mediation it got me to thinking about what a large role it plays in the domestic or family law litigation. About 30 years ago the legislature passed a law encouraging the use of alternative dispute resolution methods in … [Read more...]
Imperfection – The Art of Drafting an Estate Plan
Often when I speak to a group about our practice, I claim that we draft imperfect estate plans. This may not sound like a good marketing plan, but it is the truth. We don’t set out to be imperfect or incomplete. It is not that our analysis or … [Read more...]
Study Reveals Positive Effect of Legal Representation at Social Security Hearings
A Government Accountability Office (GAO) study of hearings-level award rates for disability claims revealed that "claimants who had representation at their hearings, were awarded benefits at a rate nearly 3 times higher than those who proceeded … [Read more...]