A story another lawyer told me the other day: One of my clients told me that he was coming out of a store the other day where he had just gone inside for a few minutes. When he came out there was a traffic officer (called a traffic warden or police officer in some locations) [...]

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One of the cases I am working on right now is one of those “one in thousand” estates where the decedent left no close relatives. She was an only child, her mother died when she was six years old and her father when she was a young adult and without any information about aunts and [...]

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A client just called me to inform me that she has been the victim of frozen turkey identity theft. A major grocery chain offers a “free” turkey to anyone who has purchased a certain amount of groceries the weeks before Thanksgiving through the use of a courtesy card account number that keeps track of the [...]

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I recently read a post that suggested identity theft insurance was useless because credit card companies limit the amount of liability for stolen credit cards to a limit of $50. It is true that many issues relating to credit card fraud are resolvable in a straightforward manner, however there are cases when identity theft can [...]

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“I am not running a charity” is something I often here business people say, well today the business of running a charity is quite sophisticated. In the United States giving to private “charitable” associations, trusts and corporations is a major part of our economic activity, and many wealthy individuals decide to establish their own tax [...]

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