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Nursing Home Abuse: A Fight For Justice

Nursing homes are often deficient in properly safeguarding their residents. When nursing homes, rehabilitation centers or skilled nursing facilities place revenues and profits over the safety and security of their residents, vulnerable and defenseless people suffer serious injuries and death.  It's not only a fight for compensation, but also for justice.  No one should tolerate [...]

Child Support Obligations After Death

The parental obligation to support children until they are emancipated is well-established.  Parties to a divorce frequently negotiate and enter into a property settlement agreement which is subsequently incorporated into a judgment of divorce.  When children are involved, the terms of the property settlement agreement will address child support obligations and how those obligations will be secured.  [...]

Health Care Reform: Understanding the ‘Individual Mandate’

The much publicized Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is a complicated piece of legislation. Although many of the regulations implementing PPACA are not yet finalized, beginning in 2014 individuals are required to (1) obtain health-care coverage that provides basic insurance  referred to as “minimum essential coverage” (MEC); (2) qualify for an exemption from [...]

Life Insurance Trusts

Life insurance is frequently an integral part of an estate plan. Insurance proceeds provide financial support for family members and dependents in the event of the insured’s untimely death. Life insurance is also used to provide money to pay estate taxes or other expenses occasioned by the insured’s death, particularly in situations where the insured [...]

What About the Pets?

New Jersey law recognizes that every member of the family deserves to be taken care of in your estate plan.  This includes your pets.  Under N.J.S. 3B:11-38, a trust for the benefit of domesticated animals may be created subject to certain limitations.  If you'd like someone special to care for your dog, cat or other pet in [...]

To Prenup or Not to Prenup?

Few conversations are more touchy than discussing a prenuptial agreement with your husband- or wife-to-be. Before raising the subject, be sure to do your homework. Know what a prenuptial agreement is, what it can and can’t do, and what you hope to achieve with it. This article from AARP offers commonsense advice from a financial [...]

Buy-Sell Agreements

A buy-sell agreement is an agreement among the owners of a business entity, or among the owners and the entity, that provides for the purchase of an owner’s interest in the entity under specified circumstances.  The agreements come in a variety of forms and accomplish different objectives.  Such agreements are useful from an estate planning [...]

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