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A Utah judge found against Gary Coleman’s ex-wife, Shannon Price, in her action challenging Anna Gray (Coleman’s friend and former head of his corporation), from assuming control of Coleman’s estate. Along with control of the childhood actor’s estate, Gray will also be the sole beneficiary of the estate. How did it come to this? Let’s […]

There is no one size fits all solution when it comes to estate planning. Yes, the government has done its best by creating the statutes of intestacy, but even these regularly fall short of a just distribution of a decedent’s property. So often I see cases that are down right unjust. Ironically, often these unjust […]

If you are an undocumented worker, and you are injured on the job, what rights do you have? Often times, undocumented workers are too intimidated by the threat of deportation to report on-the-job injuries to anyone, much less seek legal remedies against their employers. Unfortunately, this can often lead to unreasonably dangerous work conditions for […]

Some assets avoid probate without even being in a living trust. In fact, for many people, death triggers one of their estate’s most valuable assets, life insurance. Life insurance unfortunately is all to often forgotten when couples divorce and remarry other people. Let’s put this into a useful framework. John and Jane think they are […]

In February, a federal judge extended an injunction against the Utah immigration enforcement law passed last March. That law, as well as another law which would provide for a guest worker and immigrant sponsor program (both poised to go into effect in 2013) were Utah’s “shot across the bow” signaling the state’s desire to enact […]