Jury duty is one of those responsibilities that American citizens must perform. This responsibility is something that you should take seriously. Justice depends on the quality of jurors who sit on a trial. Read on to find out how to deal with the pressure of being in a jury room.
How Voting Can Get You On The List
For jury selection, potential jurors are chosen randomly from a list. The jury pool comes from citizens’ names on the registered voters list.…
If you and your spouse have decided that it is best for you to live apart for one another and take some time to determine if you want to remain married. There are benefits to filing for a legal separation you need to be aware of before you move forward with the process.
#1 You Can Receive Spousal Support
When you are legally separated, you can receive benefits much like you would if you were divorced.…
You have most likely heard of replacement surgeries for the hip or knee, but have you ever heard of shoulder replacement surgery? Like the hip and knee, the shoulder is a joint that over time can stop functioning properly. If you have been having shoulder pain and face the possibility of getting the joint replaced, you may have some questions. Here are the answers to four common questions you may have when it comes to shoulder replacement surgery.…
Divorce is never an easy situation to maneuver. Unfortunately, it can become downright impossible to maneuver when one spouse decides to resort to dirty tricks. If you’re worried that your spouse will take the low-road, and begin using dirty tricks against you, now’s the time to prepare yourself for the rocky road ahead. Here are four tips for overcoming some dirty tricks your spouse might try to use against you:…
The great recession of 2008 can be shown to have been primarily caused by carelessness, greed, and loose underwriting within the residential real estate market. Lawmakers have continued to pass new laws intended to more tightly regulate this necessary but potentially volatile market. Each year a number of new laws are passed for the purpose of limiting imprudent or unethical practices within the market,
2017 was not different than other years in that there were some new real estate laws that are of interest to people who live in their homes and people who rent them.…
As someone who is concentrating on working hard and accumulating wealth that you can pass on to children, a spouse and other relatives, your death may not be a regular topic of thought. You may have completed a lot of insurance documents and feel confident that nothing further should be done, assuming your relatives will all work together to smooth out financial issues when you die. You might not even imagine probate problems could plague loved ones; to ensure that’s not the case, attention to these pointers could save them legal problems and trouble.…
Being appointed as the personal representative (or executor) of an estate is an extreme honor, and a big responsibility. You can help yourself get up to speed quickly by learning about some common estate-related documents ahead of time. Read on for a quick look at some commonly used pieces of documentation.
What you will encounter and when
If you understand where these important documents fit into the estate process, it can give you a platform to predict what you will encounter and when you will come into contact with certain documents.…
If you can no longer work at your job because of a medical or mental condition, you may qualify for Social Security Disability benefits. This government-run program uses funds that you and everyone else has had deducted from their pay checks to provide you with some financial relief on a monthly basis. The application process for benefits can be long and complicated, however, and even when things go perfectly it can seem to take a long time to finally be approved.…
In the movie, The Minority Report, crimes are predicted by “pre-cogs,” three special individuals who can see the future. Tom Cruise plays a future cop that arrests and delivers punishment for “pre-crimes,” as foretold by these pre-cogs. Yet, there is a ring of truth to this story, as there are already punishments available for pre-crime crimes. Let’s see how a criminal defense attorney and these pre-crime crimes fit into both the present and the story of this well-known movie:…
If you are getting ready to hire an attorney and file a case with your employer’s worker’s compensation insurance carrier because you were injured on the job, then it is important that you watch out for these four common reasons worker’s compensation cases are denied:
Denial Reason#1: The Insurance Company Claims Your Injury Didn’t Happen During the Course of Your Workday
In order to be able to file a claim against your employer’s worker’s compensation insurance, your injury must happen during the course of your workday.…
