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U.S. State Department officials have declined to pursue the case of a Guatemalan child who was kidnapped from her home by a Guatemalan adoption agency and legally adopted by a Missouri couple six years ago. The State Department informed Guatemala’s government that because the two countries had not signed the Hague Convention on the Civil […]

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 […]

Last week, North Carolina followed suit with several other states in passing a state constitutional amendment defining marriage as between one man and one woman (and also foreclosing the option of civil unions and domestic partnerships for both same and opposite sex couples in North Carolina). There are, however, several states that do permit same […]

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 […]