We wanted to send a quick reminder about an important new road-safety law in Massachusetts. As you may have heard, drivers are now prohibited from holding a cell phone or other hand-held mobile devices while operating a vehicle ....
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Why You Must Check Your Estate Plan Every Year Revisit for Your Welfare Certain things happen every year: holidays, birthdays, anniversaries…and estate plan reviews. That’s right! Checking your estate plan is worth turning into an...
IT DEPENDS. If you are famous, your friend can get away with placing your badly-posed photo on the Internet. However, if you are a private individual, you can try to assert your right to privacy. If your friend or someone else is actually benefitting...
I saw a man taking pictures of kids playing in the park, swinging on swings, going down the slide, spinning around a merry-go-round, in a public area. IS THIS LEGAL? YES! If you are simply walking around with your camera and shooting casually, you...
YES!! Any real change in your life setting, such as new baby, marriage, divorce, death in the family, and a sudden financial windfall, can be the reason for updating your will. The following are some of the reasons to update your will: People you...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
