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Sometimes the law is incredibly consistent, simple and easy to understand. Other times, especially in certain areas of the law, the law consists of multiple sets of rules piled on top of each other with conflicts and inconsistencies…

An amazing aspect of living where we do is that people are usually quite generous with each other.This generosity includes sharing our possessions. Growing up on a farm during the 1980s farm crisis, I was keenly aware that our farm’s…

The Iowa Supreme Court recently ruled that a “ball hitch” — used to attach trailers to passenger vehicles — did not legally “obstruct” license plates under Iowa law.In contrast, Ohio law requiring unobstructed rear-view license plates…

The law sometimes appears to contradict itself. Specifically, the words “anything and everything” do not always legally mean “anything and everything”.Imagine a waitperson taking an order in a restaurant. A customer says, “You can bring…

Ohio law does not prohibit landlocked — lacking access to a public road/street — property. However, many counties and municipalities have regulations that prohibit the transfer or creation of landlocked real estate.However, landlocked…

Every business succession plan looks different, and various, unique aspects of every person involved and every business means that the who, what, how and when that succession happens is immensely diverse.In my office, we refer to the…

Although few of us visit our friends and family in nursing homes enough, we cannot visit nursing home residents around-the-clock, 24 hours a day, as we could if the resident were living at home.Starting late last month, residents in…

Before the internet and social media took over many aspects of business and interpersonal interaction, written publications were a primary method of formal marketing of goods and services for sale. Believe it or not, at one time,…

Often, people’s most valuable asset is their home. Many people mark the day that they pay off their home mortgage with a celebration similar to that of an anniversary or birthday. Therefore, protecting the home in the event of…

Regardless of how the circumstance arises, some people own property that is titled in a name by which a person is no longer known.For instance, an engaged couple named Brady and Sydney may purchase a house together. Later, the couple…