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You Can Tame Your Property Tax Beast
Tis the season after The Season. It’s the time to pay Christmas invoices, heating expenses, and the second largest bill you may receive all year: your town and county property tax bill (second, perhaps, only to the school property tax bill you paid this fall.)
 
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Leaving the scene of an accident
If you're the operator of a vehicle involved in an accident, you're obliged to give your name, address, vehicle identification number, and driver's license number to the police or to the injured party before you leave the scene of the accident.
Family Law
Child Support Guidelines
Guidelines set by the federal government provide an objective basis for determining the amount of child support to be paid.
Contested divorces
Legitimacy and paternity
Termination of guardianship
Attorneys and the adoption process
Personal Injury
Auto & Motorcycle Accidents
If you're involved in an automobile or motorcycle accident, immediately inform your insurance company, who will let you know what paperwork is required.
Lack of Insurance
Property owners' liability
What happens in a lawsuit?
What if my car is totaled?
Tax Law
Personal Income Taxes
It's a good idea not to throw away certain tax records in case you're audited in the future. Such records include anything related to your tax return, like W-2s (w-twos), 1099 (ten ninety-nine) forms, receipts, and canceled checks for deducted items, as well as all other relevant materials.
Keeping Tax Records
How to avoid tax trouble
Tax fraud and evasion
What are tax protestors?
Workers Comp
Workers Compensation Law
An injured worker who is entitled to workers' compensation benefits may settle his or her case. As an injured worker, you should not agree to settle or compromise your workers' compensation claim if you have not received an impairment rating from your doctor.
Asbestos exposure at work
Do I have to settle my claim?
Injuries on the job
Claims against a third party
Malpractice
Malpractice - Length of Lawsuits
Litigation is the process by which one party takes legal action against another whom he or she contends is liable for some type of damage.
Malpractice - Medical Malpractice Lawsuits
Medical malpractice is the failure of a health care provider to treat and care for a patient with a reasonable degree of skill and care.
Malpractice - What is Medical Malpractice
Medical malpractice is negligence committed by a professional health care provider- a doctor, nurse, dentist, technician, hospital, or hospital worker- whose performance of duties departs from a standard of practice of those with similar training and experience, resulting in harm to a patient or patients.
Malpractice - Damages
If you've been the victim of professional malpractice, you could be compensated for any damages you incur as a direct result of negligence. One type of damage you can be compensated for is referred to as 'pain and suffering'.





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