Taxation & Estate Planning

Get Your Tax Refund In Record Time!
It’s February 23, and my 2007 federal tax refund is already in the bank. Where’s yours? Tax refund options I already wrote about tax deductions, so now it’s time to look at the best way to get your tax refund...

Tax Refund May Be At Risk in Bankruptcy
If you plan on filing bankruptcy after January 1 of next year or of any year, you need to speak with your lawyer regarding whether your income tax refund can be protected...

Will the Trustee Seize 100% of a Tax Refund if Only One Spouse Files Bankruptcy?
My question is if someone comes to you to file BK individually, but she is due a tax refund that is in her name as well as her husband's, could the bank trustee only take 1/2 of the refund since the other 1/2 is considered an asset of her husband ...

Tax Time
Here are links for federal, state (Ohio), and local (Toledo) tax sites.The federal income tax this year also has a provision for a telephone excise tax refund...

Refund Anticipation Loans - A Bad Idea
My Bankruptcy Law Network colleague Brett Weiss wrote a timely article on the Debt Law Network blog about a type of loan that is almost always a bad idea...

Thoughts on the green paper - Part 1: petrol
The government?s green paper on emissions trading is now available. The government?s new phrase for its emissions trading scheme is ?carbon pollution reduction scheme?...

Will my Criminal Record prevent me from naturalizing or getting a Green Card?
A Lawful Permanent Resident can apply for United States citizenship after 5 year...

Can failure of an employer to provide healthy working conditions lead to wrongful discharge?
The Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) protects workers from...

How to learn content of deceased parent's will?
go to the court house where your father died or the county he lived in. It is pu...

Can I be held responsible for paying child support if I signed a birth certificate of a child that was not mine (am not the biological father)?
Get yourself some legal counsil straigth away. Explain you situation to him/her ...

Can I return an entire lot of merchandise is some of the items were not as advertised?
Since they were specified as leather, you do have a case - however, your best fi...

NPS Pharmaceuticals
Settles 2006 Class Action

Evenflo
Recalls Telephone Toys Due to Choking Hazard

Qiao Xing Universal Telephone
settles class action for $2.4 million

Billing Overcharges
T-Mobile USA agrees to refund customers $2.2 million in class action settlement.

Impounded Vehicles
City of Miami may have to refund $12 million in collected fees in class action settlement.

Property Tax
City of Midland agrees to refund Midland Cogeneration Venture $36.2 million for over assessing land.