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Prenuptial agreements are like insurance policies. You do the paperwork, and then hope you'll never need it. However, since half of marriages end in divorce within the first seven years, you may want to consider a prenuptial agreement before...

People from a wide variety of backgrounds can make good mediators. Presently, California has no mediator licensing requirements, which makes the answer to the question “How do I become a mediator?” as individual as the mediators...

A child custody agreement can have serious implications on your tax filing and your taxes overall. This issue should be addressed with your attorney or with your accountant while you are going through the process of negotiating or litigating child...

The recent headlines about Merck's Vioxx withdrawal and the FDA's move to ban ephedra have brought a lot of media attention to the growing area of drug litigation.On April 12, 2004 the FDA published a rule banning health supplements that...

Unfortunately, identity theft has become the crime of the new millenium. Though credit card companies and various agencies work to prevent it, it is, ultimately, the responsibility of each individual to take their own precautionary measures against...

If a customer owes your local business money, it's hard not to feel angry, like you want to do anything possible to get your money back. But the days of going all out to collect on a debt over.The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, designed to...

Approximately 12.8 million motor vehicle accidents in the United States were reported on December 2003. This amounts to about one crash per second - quite an alarming data.To boot, we should dispel myths, misconceptions and erroneous judgment about...

It is not actually that a person’s disability claim is not believable enough or substantial enough that causes denied applications for the Social Security Disability or the Supplemental Security Income benefits.

Riding a bus is a part of our everyday routine. It is in fact one of the most common means of transportation. Like any kind of vehicle, anyone can be involved in an accident as a driver of a car, the other car, a pedestrian or just anyone.

With so much paperwork given to you by insurance companies, most people tend to overlook exactly what their contracts are about. It is part of insurance law that any ambiguity or uncertainty in the choice of wording in a contract will be resolved in...