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One of the questions I hear most often as I talk with people about estate planning is “What do you think about the online do it yourself legal websites?” My response is usually something along the lines of, “you get what you pay for;” the Gore-Tex case demonstrates the truth in this statement. Bill Gore, […]

Dharun Ravi, the former Rutgers University student who was convicted of invasion of privacy, bias intimidation, witness tampering and other crimes which resulted in the September 2010 suicide of his roommate, Tyler Clementi, may have bigger problems than serving a 30-day jail sentence. Ravi, a lawful permanent resident of this country, set up a webcam […]

At the beginning of the month, one of our law firm family members suffered a major heart attack. What seemed to be an unfortunate set of circumstances actually ended up saving his live. These “unfortunate” circumstances placed him in the hospital, on the gurney, when his heart attack hit. He was immediately iced down to […]

Utah is not a state that recognizes the rights of couples, whether same-sex or heterosexual, who are committed to each other but do not marry (unless they are heterosexual and “hold themselves out to the community as a married couple”). Couples that choose to live together outside the marital relationship (or same-sex couples who cannot […]

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 […]