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Ask a probate attorney in the state where that parent's estate was probated about the possibility of creating a bank account or trust in the name of the hold out to receive and hold the hold out's cut until he or she finally decides to take his/her share.

One cannot adversely possess state land in most states. Neither of you has ownership rights to the state land, and absent a grant of an easement by the state, none of you has any greater rights to use the land than may be available to the public under state law. It also means that as far as any...

Community property is a system of property ownership; it defines what property is community property and what is not, and with regard to community property, what rights each spouse has in that property. He may only pass to people the property or rights to property that he has. Thus, if he...

HIPAA is a law that requires covered entities to keep confidential protected health information (PHI) and not disclose it to others except as permitted by the HIPAA law and the HHS regulations that implement it. One of those exceptions is when the patient authorizes the disclosure. The second...

The main advantage of a revocable living trust is avoiding the time and expense of probate will still providing the tax benefits that the person would get if he/she passed their property by will, intestate succession, or pay on death beneficiary designations/tranfer on death deeds. A non...

For what purpose does this determination matter? Is it for some legal issue where U.S. law matters, or the law of the place where the recipient is located? If your concern is not a legal one, then what is the reason for the question? Also, the the details of the dispute between the nations...

You always want to check what the legal service you are using states how current the information is. And the more current the source, the better. The California legislature is still in session for 2024, and all non emergency bills passed this session will become effective January 1, 2025. As of...

That depends on why it's not moving faster. Lawyers provide legal advice and representation to clients. Most lawyers don't do technical drawings or oversee the process to get the drawings from wherever they are located. That's up to the client to do. Just because the requiremennt is stated in...

A trademark is established by the use of the mark in commerce. No registration is required, but registration does provide some added benefits to the holder. Note that the specific design of the icon itself is also protected under copyright law so making use of that icon image may subject the...

Yes. Assuming that the asset is worth more than the donor's the donee gets the asset with same basis the donor had. This is known as a carry over basis in tax law. If it is likely that the OP's brother will die before the OP does then giving the OP a share of it now would result in higher...

It can be done before the mortgage is paid off. That's the whole point of the part of the federal Garn-St. Germain Depository Institutions Act of 1982 that made it impossible for a mortgage lender to terminate the mortgage early using a due on sale/transfer provision when the transfer is one of...

Not in Colorado. The state legislature abolished the death penalty in 2020. Prior that, in the period from 1975 to 2020 Colorado had the death penalty as an option, but only one person in all that time was actually executed. The rest of those who were given death sentences during those years...

A little more detail for the OP: It wouldn't be costly to actually do it. The issue is whether that consent will be effective for all future calls unless revoked, and if that is possible, exactly what the written consent needs to say to make it enforceable. For that, you need legal advice in...

Typically what you would want to do when accommodations were granted months ahead of time is contact the court clerk shortly before the hearing to confirm those accommodations will be available. If you didn't do that, did you raise the issue with the judge at the start of the hearing? If you...

The way the Colorado law is on parole, this sentence at least guarantees he will never be eligible for parole and will serve a true life sentence. Justly deserved, though I wish we taxpayers didn't have to pay for housing this scumbag for the next 40+ years that he might live. Whatever assets he...

A man was sentenced yesterday in Denver District Court to 448 years in prison, with a 200 year concurrent sentence for human trafficking, pimping, sexual abuse and other offenses. It the longest sentence ever imposed in any court in the U.S. for these kinds of crimes. It's unfortunate, really...

The problem here is that you are not unbiased in this situation either. That's to be expected. You support your sister and view the situation through the way she sees it. The father's family sees things quite differently, which is not unusual in bitterly contested custody and support conflicts...

Let me add a bit more explanation. The reason that plan administrators (which often is the employer itself) are sticklers for this is because if they fail to set up the plan properly or fail to manage the plan in compliance with the terms of the plan the employer may face fines for doing so or...

It needs to be a financial power of attorney. The one army judge linked is a medical power of attorney. All that really means is that the terms of the POA in his sample would need to be changed from granting power to make medical decisions for disabled spouse to one granting power to make...

That's not the right take. Put into the lease (1) every provision state law requires and (2) every provision that state law allows that will protect yourself in the event trouble arises. Putting in penalties, etc., to motivate things like timely payment of rent, for example, should always be in...