Start Your Tax Planning Before Year End If you are like most Americans, you are just starting to put together all your documentation to take to your accountant, so that you can file your tax return for 2015. But according to experts, you should have ... [Read more...]
2016 Estate, Gift and Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax Update
2016 Estate, Gift and Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax Update As a part of the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, Congress simplified matters by unifying the federal estate and gift tax systems, and increased the amount of the exemption to ... [Read more...]
Can You Pass an Inherited IRA to Your Children?
Can You Pass an Inherited IRA to Your Children? Suppose that your spouse has an IRA and you are the named beneficiary, but you don't really need any of the money in the IRA? It's built up tax free over a number of years, and you don't want to incur ... [Read more...]
Addressing Special Asset Issues
Your Property in Bankruptcy Most people who file bankruptcy do NOT lose anything they own that they want to keep. That's because everything they own is "exempt," meaning that they are all of the types of property that are protected from their ... [Read more...]
Department of Defense Injuries
If you are a civilian employee working for the Department of Defense and you have sustained an injury on the job, you want a lawyer with a specific set of skills and knowledge to help protect your rights. As a federal worker, you are required to file ... [Read more...]
U.S. Labor Department Considers New EEOICP Act Rule
The U.S. Department of Labor is reviewing a new rule that it hopes will increase administrative efficiency with respect to claims filed under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act (EEOICPA). The EEOICPA governs the ... [Read more...]
Equal Pay Act Falling Short
Study Shows Women Still Paid Less for Similar Work When President John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act in 1963, proponents foresaw a future where men and women working in the same jobs would be paid the same wages. At the time, statistics ... [Read more...]
Bronx Metro-North Derailment Victim Seeks Compensation for Injuries
Bronx Derailment Victim Seeks Compensation for Injuries With the Help of Attorney Michael Lamonsoff Denise Williams, a dentist and retired Army colonel, injured in the Metro-North train derailment in the Bronx Sunday, has filed notice of claim ... [Read more...]
Jeffrey Rattikin Takes Helm of GetLegal.com
Jeffrey Rattikin Takes Helm of GetLegal.com Jeffrey A. Rattikin, a partner at Rattikin & Rattikin, LLP, has joined Dallas-based GetLegal.com/The Attorney Store as a partner, and as its new president. A commercial and residential real estate ... [Read more...]
Interview with Personal Injury Attorney Lawrence G. Metzger
Recently, GetLegal sat down with Attorney Lawrence G. Metzger of the Philadelphia personal injury law practice of Metzger & Kleiner. A graduate of the Temple University School of Law, Mr. Metzger attended the Wharton School at the University of ... [Read more...]
