What You Should Know about The Fair Labor Standards (25 Feb 2007) The federal Fair Labor Standard Acts requires employers to pay their employees time and half their regular hourly rate of pay when the employees work more then 40 hours in a week. This includes employees who work forced overtime or employees who worked of...
You Have Rights as an Employee: US Labor Laws (25 Feb 2007) Even though you may be surprised to hear this but there are really no U. S. Labor laws of any kind to which mandates how an employer must treat you as a person. In other words there are no laws in saying that an employer cannot be a jerk towards you, in w...
Dispelling the Myth of Compensation Culture (25 Feb 2007) Over the past few years the connotations of the word "compensation" have changed dramatically. Traditionally, compensation was a positive concept used to recover the economic and real costs following an accident, but recently the word has gradually ga...
Joint Tenancies for Probate Avoidance (21 Feb 2007) A joint tenancy with right of survivorship can be a useful probate avoidance tool. Under these arrangements, both tenants are entitled to full use of the jointly-titled assets during their lives (to the extent their use is not inconsistent with the other ...
Using Beneficiary Designations to Avoid Probate (21 Feb 2007) Estate planners have a variety of probate-avoidance tools at their disposal. One of these is beneficiary or payable on death (POD) designations. Beneficiary and POD designations allow you to determine who will benefit from life insurance contracts, retire...
Power Of Attorneys (21 Feb 2007) A Power of Attorney is a legal agreement in which the principal ("non-incapacitated" person) gives authority to the agent or attorney-in-fact to act in place of the principal. The agent will have the power to open bank accounts in your name, bring suits i...
Incorporating with an Incorporator (17 Feb 2007) Deciding to form a business entity is often a wise choice for most businesses. What seems simple can quickly become confusing given all the legal jargon. If you want to incorporate, you have a couple of different choices regarding how to go about the ...
Before Declaring Your Disabled Child Incompetent: Four Alternatives to Guardianship (17 Feb 2007) Copyright (c) 2007 L. Mark Russell Before parents decide whether their child with a disability needs some type of guardian, they should consider the alternatives to guardianship. These include special needs trusts, representative payees, and citizen ad...
Do I Need a Residential Lease or Rental Agreement? (17 Feb 2007) The fact is most states only allow a oral contract between the tenant and landlord to be legal for a short period of time, because oral contracts often go to court it is necessary to have a written lease or rental agreement. The rental or lease agreement ...
How To Lower Your Lawyer's Legal Fees (17 Feb 2007) You've heard all the lawyer jokes (How do you make a lawyer smile for a wedding photograph - ask them to say "Feeeeeeeees") and read the bad press ("Compensation wiped out by legal fees"), BUT a good lawyer can help save you money, and money carefully s...
FDA Registration of Food Facilities (17 Feb 2007) The US Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act 2002 (the Bioterrorism Act) requires domestic and foreign facilities that manufacture, process, pack or hold f...
How to Estimate the Value of Your Personal Injury Settlement (17 Feb 2007) In most cases where you are a victim of a personal injury that is the fault of another, you are going to receive a settlement offer prior to going to court. There is a good reason for this. If you are a resident of Massachusetts, there are going to be a l...
Trasylol Heart Surgery Side Effects (16 Feb 2007) Bayer's Trasylol heart surgery side effects have recently been linked to an increased rate of kidney failure, heart attack, and death in the five years following a patient undergoing heart surgery. In 1993, Trasylol (generically known as "aprotini...
How to find a lawyer online (11 Feb 2007) Every day of our lives we face numerous challenges that take us through different and sometimes unexpected paths, where the helping hand of a lawyer might be required. Most people do not pay much attention to legal issues until the moment when they ne...
S-Corporations - State and Tax Issues (11 Feb 2007) More than a few people prefer to form corporations to protect their businesses, but look for a more favorable tax situation. The answer, of course, is the S-corporation. For a long time, corporations were the dominant business entity available to mos...
Pros and Cons of Being a Limited Liability Company (11 Feb 2007) Limited liability companies are the popular new choice for business start-ups. The "LLC" has only been in existence for roughly 26 years and there are some definite pros and cons. A limited liability company is a creature of state law. Prior to th...
Tightening Down On Domestic Violence - New Laws (09 Feb 2007) Without a doubt, domestic violence remains one of the most popular subjects for our politicians, as evidenced by the continuous flow of new laws related to this topic every year. The following new laws, which became effective at the beginning of this y...
Child Custody - Joint Custody and the Best Interest of the Child Standard (09 Feb 2007) "In the best interest of the child" or "child's best interest" is the famous mantra of the family court, which is prevalent in child custody proceedings today, yet its interpretation by the family court or judges is often arbitrary and its meani...
Child Custody - Child Custody Orders and Judicial Authority (07 Feb 2007) For many divorced and separated parents with children there will be a common answer as to why they ended up with the child custody and visitation arrangement they have. The answer being, "the judge decided it." In other words, the judge chose the pa...
