Divorce severs many of the physical and legal ties that bind you to your spouse. Following the end of your marriage, you’ll no longer live in the same home, won’t have joint banking or investment accounts and likely won’t share the title to property anymore. Once the...
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Month: April 2016
Legal risks to Ohio college students of underage drinking
Four out of every five college students consume alcohol, according to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. That is a lot of underage drinking, since 21 is the legal age to consume alcohol in Ohio and all other U.S. states and most students begin...
As credit card debt climbs, Chapter 7 bankruptcy can help
Virtually no amount of financial planning or careful saving can completely address the burden of an unexpected financial crisis. For some people in Ohio, this is a sudden illness or injury that brings on considerable amounts of medical debt. For others, it is the...
Should you fight to keep the family home in divorce?
This depends on your current real estate market as well as your cash flow moving forward. Emotion-based decision making can lead to costly mistakes. The best option is often to sell the home, divide any equity and move on. But the real estate market recovery has not...
Estate planning can help businesses remain viable for generations
For those in Ohio who own a business, ensuring that the business continues to operate after one’s death is often a primary concern. Many people have made their business venture one of their top priorities throughout their lives, and want to see that hard work passed...
Eliminating your debts can pave the way to success
When many Ohio residents think about personal bankruptcy, it is with the assumption that choosing that path marks the end of the road — the point beyond which success is simply unattainable. In reality, however, many people who pursue personal bankruptcy go on to...
Is Ohio’s sex offender registry system broken?
Nearly 30 years ago, an Ohio man served time for a rape conviction stemming from an encounter with a woman his own age. While he was in jail, the state retroactively labeled him as a sexual predator, a label that many people associate with child sex abuse. Since that...
Home foreclosure prompts NFL player’s bankruptcy filing
When many people in Ohio think about personal bankruptcy, they imagine a scenario in which an individual has made a series of poor or irresponsible financial decisions. While this is sometimes the case, there are many other means by which people can find themselves in...