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Maryland Legislators Continue Their Quest For Employer-Provided Paid Family And Medical Leave
Even if your children are grown up, you probably remember the go-to topics that you would discuss when your children were small and you met someone else with a child close in age to yours. Depending on the children’s age, preschool routines, toilet training, first words, and adorable gummy grins probably came up frequently,… Read More »
Unmarried Couples Can Never Be Too Specific About Bequeathing Assets To Each Other
In many regards, marriage is just a piece of paper. Married couples and unmarried couples are more alike than different. You live together and share life experiences, manage finances together and build relationships with each other’s family of origin, and perhaps even have children of your own together. Most of the time, society treats… Read More »
Bowling Alley And Landlord Battle Over Mold Infestation Resulting From Storm Damage
The worst thing about living with roommates is having to argue about whose responsibility it is to clean up messes in shared living areas such as the kitchen. Multiply this problem hundreds of times over, and you will get an idea of how annoying it is for business owners and commercial landlords to resolve… Read More »
Maryland Laws About Cremation And Burial
You might have opinions about how you want people to remember you after you die, but the way to achieve most of these wishes is through your conduct when you are alive, not through the perfect funeral. Perhaps you have songs or hymns that you would like the people in attendance to hear at… Read More »
Can You Give Real Estate Property As A Gift?
If you own a real estate property, it is probably the most valuable thing you own, and if you own more than one real estate property, your wealth is substantial. By this logic, it would seem that giving someone a real estate property would be a great way to help them be financially secure,… Read More »
Breach Of Contract Disputes Between Commercial Tenants And Their Landlords
Disputes with landlords over poorly maintained rental properties are stressful. When you are a tenant of a residential property, your frustration about repairs your landlord failed to make can escalate quickly, because every time you walk past the water-damaged living room wall or try to operate the defective faucets in the kitchen or bathroom,… Read More »
Physically Destroying A Will Is The Most Effective Way To Cancel It
If you reread documents that you wrote many years ago, whether they are personal letters written on paper or archived blog posts from the salad days of Geocities, you will probably immediately notice how much your ideas have changed; you may barely resemble the version of yourself that wrote those old texts. You don’t… Read More »
Is It Time To Revise Your Estate Plan?
Reevaluating Your Choice of Personal Representative While it is important to review your estate plan periodically, the good news is that you do not need to rewrite your entire estate plan from scratch every year. (Divorce is almost the only event that requires you to start over again from zero with your estate plan.) … Read More »
When Multiple Companies Are In Charge Of A Real Estate Property, Lawsuits Get Complicated
The pitfalls and annoyances of being a landlord are well known; if you want to avert a family feud at a holiday gathering by avoiding discussions about politics, you can just ask your uncle who rents out a house that he owns about how much the tenants get on his nerves. Disputes between landlords… Read More »
The Least Risky Ways To Get Started Investing In Real Estate
Some cynical articles have gone as far as to say that getting paid to do nothing is the new American dream. In fact, the quest for passive income is nothing new; Americans have been searching for it for at least as long as jobs where you could earn a reliable income and build up… Read More »
