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Abatement
Abatement may refer to:
- Abatement of debts and legacies, a common law doctrine of wills that holds that when the equitable assets of a deceased person are not sufficient to satisfy fully all the creditors, their debts must abate proportionately, and they must accept a dividend.
- Abatement in pleading, a legal defence to civil and criminal actions based purely on procedural and technical issues involving the death of parties and changes in their status
- Abatement (heraldry), a modification of the shield or coat of arms that supposedly can be imposed by authority (in England supposedly by the Court of Chivalry) for misconduct.
- Bird abatement, driving or removing undesired birds from an area.
- Dust abatement, the process of inhibiting the creation of excess soil dust, a pollutant that contributes to excess levels of particulate matter.
- The process of putting an end to, or reducing, the amount of harmful substances such as greenhouse gas emissions, asbestos and lead.
- Tax Abatement (aka Tax holiday) is used in the field of economic development to encourage businesses to relocate, expand, and more currently to retain facilities in a community by means of lowering the local property taxes due to a local taxing authority. This in effect reduces the cost of operations over- typically- a 10-20 year horizon.
- Rent abatement is the process by which a court determines if the amount of rent that you pay should be lowered because there were conditions which made your apartment uninhabitable (unlivable).
The subject of rent abatement usually comes up when a tenant has not paid rent and a landlord files a complaint for eviction against the tenant for non-payment of rent. The claim that an apartment was uninhabitable and that a tenant is entitled to a rent abatement is a defence to the landlord’s claim that the tenant owes him or her rent.
Penalty Abatement
As a taxpayer you can ask the IRS to reduce some or all of the penalties they may assess. (...)
?Using a Penalty Abatement Letter
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Tolling or Abatement of Statutes in Legal Malpractice
Plaintiff has a right to sue target attorney, and then, for strategic reasons, agrees to put the case aside for the time being...
Abatement of medicaid reimbursement if father marries mother
The Michigan Court of Appeals recently held that fathers who were ordered to reimburse the state when medicaid had paid for the birth of a child or children to an unmarried mother, are entitled to have those expenses abated (erased) if they later marry the mother, even if the orders were entered prior to a change in the law in 2004.
Abatement and Ademption: More Challenges for the Executor of a Cash-Strapped Estate
What follows is a revised edition of this morning's blog which inadvertently created confusion between the principles of Abatement and Ademption...
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