Posted on April 2, 2016 by Hawkins Elder Law.
[See our Disclaimers page about relying on this website’s contents.] Most people think once in a while about the inheritance that they will leave for others. Some people assume that their wealth will transfer to their family members smoothly and other people believe that they must make detailed plans. To some extent, both ideas are […]
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Posted on March 21, 2016 by Hawkins Elder Law.
[See our Disclaimers page about relying on this website’s contents.] One of farming’s “Holy Grails” is to assemble tracts of farmland that join together as one big block so that the farmer can move from one field to another without having to transport equipment down roads or highways. Such a farmland assemblage saves incredible time, […]
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Posted on February 18, 2016 by Hawkins Elder Law.
[See our Disclaimers page about relying on this website’s contents.] Did you ever pick up a button that fell off a shirt or a screw that fell out of a piece of furniture, store it in a place that you are sure you would never forget, and later forget the location of that fool-proof storage? […]
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Posted on February 8, 2016 by Hawkins Elder Law.
[See our Disclaimers page about relying on this website’s contents.] Celebrity comedian Jeff Foxworthy has developed a series of jokes that begin with the phrase: “You might be a redneck if . . .” If Mr. Foxworthy was a lawyer, perhaps he might adapt that concept to identify some of the circumstances when an attorney’s […]
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Posted on January 24, 2016 by Hawkins Elder Law.
[See our Disclaimers page about relying on this website’s contents.] Most people are familiar with corporations. Some people may have encountered a business entity that has existed in Indiana since 1993 called a limited liability company (an “LLC”). Business people have used these entities in Indiana to solve a wide variety of problems, including protection […]
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Posted on January 16, 2016 by Hawkins Elder Law.
[See our Disclaimers page about relying on this website’s contents.] The US Department of Veterans Affairs (also known as the “VA”) expresses some of our nation’s respect and gratitude to US military veterans by providing various benefits to veterans, their surviving spouses, and dependent children. Unfortunately, many veterans follow bad advice to pursue the VA’s […]
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Posted on January 8, 2016 by Hawkins Elder Law.
[See our Disclaimers page about relying on this website’s contents.] Young adults have blind spots about life because they were oblivious during their childhood of many decisions that their parents made for them. They never had to worry during childhood about filing income tax returns or whether to have x-rays or stitches because such decisions […]
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Posted on December 31, 2015 by Hawkins Elder Law.
[See our Disclaimers page about relying on this website’s contents.] All of our ancestors conducted business by paying with cash. When we were younger, our parents told us that it was irresponsible to live without carrying substantial amounts of cash. Those beliefs may have been valid in the past, but doing business without keeping a […]
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Posted on December 28, 2015 by Hawkins Elder Law.
[See our Disclaimers page about relying on this website’s contents.] Congress changes federal tax law almost every year. Some changes are very dramatic, and other changes are so subtle that tax lawyers must scour them to find the nuances. Federal tax law changes for the 2015 tax year (affecting income tax returns filed in 2016) […]
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Posted on December 5, 2015 by Hawkins Elder Law.
[See our Disclaimers page about relying on this website’s contents.] Humans dominate the animal kingdom partly because we possess physical and mental abilities to change our environment and behavior deliberately. More than that, a person’s values elevate the person above the crude comfort and self-preservation instincts that define other creatures. The power to conceive and […]
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