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For many clients, one of the primary objectives of estate planning is to avoid having their real estate go through probate, the court process that oversees the orderly distribution of an estate. Clients who have personal experience with probate or have heard stories about probate from family or friends often want to avoid subjecting their …

Strategies for Keeping Real Estate out of ProbateRead More

The most legally significant events in most people’s lives are getting married, getting divorced and dying. And yet, many people make little effort to understand the legal consequences of these events. However, a discussion about one key document addresses all of them. A prenuptial agreement. A prenuptial agreement, also known as a prenup or antenuptial …

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Buyers of commercial property typically have a long list of tasks when evaluating a potential purchase: negotiating the purchase agreement, evaluating potential build-outs, and environmental testing, just to name a few. Two other items that should be on every buyer’s list are getting title insurance and a survey. In fact, if the buyer is financing …

Buyers of Commercial Property Benefit from Title Insurance and A SurveyRead More

Whether you consider non-fungible tokens (NFTs) to be a fad, a functional method of sharing art and other creative works with a broad audience, or even a source of serious funds in a digital gold rush era, the prices for some NFTs over the last year places a heightened value on those items of intellectual …

Protecting IP in the NFT AgeRead More

The last two years have given many workers a chance to reassess their priorities, whether by the loss of a job, a layoff during quarantine periods, or just through moments of clarity in what has been a time of stress.  The period now known as “The Great Resignation” has resulted from the pandemic era, and …

Noncompete Agreements in the Great ResignationRead More

Contracts are everywhere in our modern business world. However, we may not always see them; or as in the latest 63-page scroll-through on that music service app, we may choose to outright ignore them.  Nevertheless, terms and conditions float around us in the digital ether and now replace the handshake deals and gentlemen’s understandings that …

Mastering the Contractual RelationshipRead More