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Legal News: Social Security Scams.......be aware!

There are many scammers out there trying to get your money. Please heed the following if you get a call: Warning Signs You get an unsolicited call from someone claiming to work for SSA. Except in rare circumstances, you will not get a call from...

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Legal News: Wills and Trusts: Rule Against Perpetuities

Copied from the Lawyers Weekly Newspaper 2/10/2020 (This Week's Decisions): Where a 1956 will devised real property to a congregational church on the condition that it be used as a parsonage or for church purposes, a judgment declaring that the...

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Legal News: How do you Choose an Executor for Your Estate?

You know that you need to create an estate plan, but one of the essential parts of creating such a plan is choosing an executor of your estate. Do you know what an executor is? This is the person that will carry out your wishes after you pass away....

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Legal News: Bankruptcy: Post-petition financing-Spouse

This Week's Decisions (Mass Lawyers Weekly Newspaper dated 2/3/2020) Where a debtor has moved for authority to engage in post-petition borrowing from her husbnad, the motion should be denied because the debtor has not met her burden of showing...

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Legal News: Parent and child (Termination of parental rights - Visitation)

Mass Lawyers Weekly (This Week's Decisions) 1/27/2020 Where a mother's parental rights were terminated based on a finding of unfitness, a remand for further proceedings is necessary regarding postadoption visitation.  "An order of...

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Legal News: Landlord and Tenant (At-will tenancy - Notice - Waiver)

Mass Lawyers Weekly ("This Week's Decisions") 1/27/2020 Where a Housing Court Judge awarded a defendant tenant $918.95 after a summary process trial, a remand must be ordered because the judge did not find either that the plaintiff...

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Legal News: Examples of Authority Usually Granted in a Health Care Proxy

When mental incapacity arises, attention is often directed to the asset management problems, but equal and sometimes greater problems related to health care decisions are also presented. Perhaps too much attention had been placed on the ultimate...

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Legal News: Real Property: Resulting Trust - Joint Tenancy

Lawyers Weekly Newspaper dated 1/20/2020, This Week's Decisions: Where a plaintiff and his defendant brother own real property as joint tenants, a judgment should enter declaring that the defendant holds his interest in a resulting trust for the...

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Legal News: Examples of Authority Usually Granted in a General Durable Power of Attorney (Part 2 of 3)

Examples of Authority Usually Granted in a Genearl Durable Power of Attorney: To make deposits or withdrawals from your bank account or cash management accounts or to open new ones in your name. To buy or sell your stocks, bonds or other assets as...

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Legal News: Resulting Trust - Joint Tenancy

Copied from Lawyers Weekly Newspaper dated 1/20/2020 (This Week's Decisions Segment) Where a defendant who co-owns real property with the plaintiff, her son-in-law, as tenants in common has contended that the plaintiff does not have a statutory...

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