Westerville Ohio Legal Blog
How can I avoid financial scams targeting the elderly?
It is sad but true; financial scam artists target the elderly, often focusing their efforts on those experiencing cognitive decline due to dementia. This abuse can come from other family members, nursing home staff, or strangers that misrepresent themselves to seniors...
Is it time to change your estate plan?
When it comes to estate planning, you do not want to plan once and then never look at your plan again. Instead, your estate plan needs to grow and change as you grow and change. According to Forbes, there are ways to tell if you need a modified estate plan. Estate...
Strategies to avoid probate in Ohio
Probate, which is the court-supervised process of administering a deceased person's estate, can be lengthy and costly for your surviving family members. With careful estate planning, however, you may be able to shield many of your assets from the probate process. Use...
What is an estate plan?
You have probably heard terms like foster care, probate court, guardianship and conservatorship. In your estate plan, you should have a living estate, wills, financial powers of attorney and healthcare directives. According to FindLaw, a living trust is a document...
How does a city make zoning decisions?
Like any law a municipality passes, zoning must occur for the good of the community. In some cases, zoning helps to keep residential areas separate from business districts. It may also help protect wildlife or certain environmental aspects of an area. Zoning decisions...
I am still young: do I need an advance directive?
When we are young, we sometimes feel indestructible. We are ready to take on the world, welcoming all the challenges coming our way. We hear about estate plans and living wills, but we do not need them. Those things are for older folks, right? But even in the back of...
Without estate planning, unmarried partners may get nothing
Sometimes couples decide it is best not to entangle themselves legally and financially. One person may have poor finances that would negatively affect the other person when applying for a loan, especially a mortgage. Similarly, one partner’s poor health or terrible...
Can I prevent someone from contesting my will?
Creating an estate plan and ensuring everything is in order is a great way to help things progress smoothly with your assets after your death. However, there is always the potential for something to happen that slows down the probate process and creates headaches for...
What is a home rule charter?
There are three levels of government in Ohio. These are federal, state and local. Each level can make its own laws. The way the state and federal governments make laws are fairly standardized through their respective constitutions. At the local level, cities have...
Independent contractor vs. employee: Which is it?
If you need to hire workers for your Ohio business, it is important to determine if they will be employees or independent contractors. This is mostly something that you must know for tax purposes because taxation for each type of worker is very different. If you...
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