Report from Counsel 
When celebrity chef and author Anthony Bourdain died, his will contained a directive leaving his frequent flyer miles to his estranged wife to “dispose of in accordance to what she believes to be his wishes.”
The fiduciary rule, a regulation that required financial advisers to put their clients’ interests ahead of their own, is now dead. When celebrity chef and author Anthony Bourdain died, his will contained a directive leaving his frequent flyer miles to his estranged wife to “dispose of in accordance to what she believes to be his wishes.”
It’s one of the facts of community living: where you have neighbors, you can have problems. There are some things you can do about annoying neighbors and some things that could land you in legal trouble.
Families face a variety of estate planning challenges, and family drama may be chief among them. In fact, 44 percent of planning professionals say family conflict is the biggest threat to estate planning this year, followed by tax reform (25 percent) and market volatility (12 percent), according to a recent survey.
If you do business using the internet, you want to ensure your internet contracts are enforceable. To do that, terms need to be presented in such a way that users have reasonable knowledge of them.
In June, California passed a consumer privacy law that could soon affect many organizations in Illinois and elsewhere that are deemed to conduct business in California.
In June, a group of restaurants, retailers, and industry associations sent a letter to lawmakers asking them to correct a mistake in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). The law inadvertently increased the tax burden on a category of business investment called Qualified Improvement Property (QIP).
When a person dies “intestate,” that means they’ve passed away without having made a will. If that happens, their property is doled out to surviving family members according to that state’s “intestate succession law.” This means the state is essentially creating a will for the person according to its idea of how most people would set one up, typically with a surviving spouse first in line, followed by kids, grandkids, parents, siblings and so forth.
Are your parents adequately prepared for retirement? If not, are you planning to help them out?
In many families, one or more adult children will step up to help Mom and Dad when they can no longer safely take care of themselves. That could mean time away from your family and job or pitching in financially to cover a variety of expenses.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is no longer planning to issue regulations around website accessibility. Yet businesses around the country continue to face lawsuits claiming their websites are inaccessible to blind or low-vision users. In late 2017, the DOJ announced it was rescinding its advance notices of proposed rulemaking on the issue of website … Read more