When you ask people who did their real estate closing, or who handled it, some will mention real estate attorneys. But others will mention title or closing companies. But if a title company can handle a real estate closing, why use an attorney? What is a Title Company...

When kids turn 18, or when they are done with high school, they are legally adults. However, the needs of a child do not actually end just because he or she is 18—and that is especially true for kids going to college, and all the expenses that go with it, including...

If you are getting divorced, you probably know that the court will make some kind of determination about your children’s living, visitation, and custody schedule. But what about your other “kids”—the ones with fur, feathers, tails and whiskers? Yes, our pets are our...

One common concern for people in a divorce is that the other spouse will hide assets or income. However, it is harder than you may think to do that, and a good divorce attorney has ways of finding assets that the other spouse attempts to hide. Disclosures Lead to...

Let’s say that one day your family law lawyer calls you and says that your spouse has offered to go to mediation, to try to resolve the issues in your divorce or custody case, or even in a post-judgment modification case. Do you accept that offer? What are the pros...

Although we live in an age when social media seems to be everywhere and an accepted part of our society. But despite its prevalence, many people still treat social media as a different world, and somewhere that is private, and not related to our real world. Nowhere is...

When it comes to real estate closings, certainly residential closings come first to most families' minds. But many of us buy property for our businesses, and that often means having a commercial real estate closing. Commercial real estate closings sound like they...

If there is one person who knows more about you than anyone, it is probably your spouse. If you are like most people, you may not be important enough or well known enough, for many people to care if your soon-to-be ex spouse starts saying things about you, or your...

With rental markets being so hot given the rising prices of real estate, many people are finding it profitable to rent out property they own. But while that property is being rented, the market is getting hotter and hotter. You may decide that you want to sell your...

No matter how you divide up time sharing of your children when you get divorced or have a custody dispute, one thing is likely for certain: The child will have a room at both parents’ houses, and will go back and forth between the parents based on the timesharing and...