If you are stopped somewhere by the police — say, while walking down the street — do you know what your rights actually are? Most people really don’t. While a lot of people know that they have a right to remain silent when arrested to avoid self-incrimination, the...
If your spouse has been diagnosed with dementia, you are likely wondering how it affects your estate planning. Is long-term care in the future? If so, how will you pay for it? Can you update your estate plan? Depending on the level of dementia, your spouse may be able...
It’s hard to know what to do when someone you care about is going through a divorce. You may want to help — but at the same time be afraid of saying or doing the wrong thing at the wrong time. Fortunately, a lot of folks have been down this road before and they have...
Medicaid can be extremely helpful for covering your nursing home costs. But getting coverage to pay for your long-term care is not always simple. It can be difficult to understand the rules, especially with a lot of misinformation out there about the program. Knowing...
You’ve probably heard of parental alienation syndrome, but do you know what the signs of it are if you see it? Parental alienation syndrome is the direct result of a concentrated attempt to destroy someone’s relationship with his or her children. Usually, one parent...
Does getting a traffic ticket equal a one-way ticket out of the country as well? If you’re an undocumented immigrant or an immigrant with any potential for deportation in Ohio, it could. Attorneys for criminal defendants in various traffic courts and mayor’s courts in...
You may be putting off getting your divorce because of the horror stories you have heard from well-meaning family and friends. You may think that divorce always involves a long and combative court dispute. Or that getting a divorce will be bankruptcy-inducingly...
A lot of good people end up filing for bankruptcy. A job loss or illness is all it takes to put people in a pile of debt that they can’t climb out of without some help. Unfortunately, if you don’t understand the practical differences between the types of bankruptcy...
Ideally, if you can get through a divorce without going through actual litigation, you want to do it. You end up retaining more personal control over your future that way — because going to court means letting the judge handle the decisions. Unfortunately, litigation...
The idea that there’s an arrest warrant out there for you is probably gut-wrenching. It’s no fun looking over your shoulder all the time, wondering if the police are going to show up at your job or worried you’ll make a small mistake in traffic and end up in jail when...