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What Adds Expenses to Obtaining a Divorce?

Practice of Law

Between the court filing fees, attorney’s fees, and the cost for things like expert witnesses, it can really add up if your case becomes a drawn-out fight. If you've decided that it’s time to get a divorce, one of your biggest concerns is likely how expensive the process can be.

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Addams Family Estate Planning: Protect Your Weird Wishes

Practice of Law

Repulsive Real Estate The Addams own interesting real estate including a spooky mansion (previously an insane asylum), swamp, crocodile farm, and tombstone factory. Signatures: You must sign in front of two disinterested witnesses who are not beneficiaries under your will.

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Legal Ethics & Malpractice Reporter, Vol. 5, No. 10

Joseph, Hollander & Craft

Any lawyer who uses expert witnesses for litigation and anyone who serves or wishes to serve as an expert witness will find this fascinating and important. It discusses the question of whether expert witnesses can be liable to malpractice suits for their actions. Steiner-Dillon, Expert Malpractice , 2024 Utah L. 281 (2024).

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Legal Ethics & Malpractice Reporter, Vol. 6, No. 3

Joseph, Hollander & Craft

when a lawyer is a victim of a clients crime or someone associated with the lawyer or related to the lawyer is a victim of the clients crime and the lawyer is a witness to that crime. We fight allegations of professional misconduct against medical and legal practitioners, accountants, real estate agents, and others.

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Best Practices for Drafting Comprehensive Prenuptial Agreements

Destination Articles Blog

For example, one of your clients may own significant shares in a family business or have substantial real estate holdings before marriage. Handle Notarization and Witnesses Although not always required, notarizing the agreement and having witnesses during the signing can help demonstrate that all legal formalities are respected.

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The Dangerous Client

Joseph, Hollander & Craft

when a lawyer is a victim of a clients crime or someone associated with the lawyer or related to the lawyer is a victim of the clients crime and the lawyer is a witness to that crime. We fight allegations of professional misconduct against medical and legal practitioners, accountants, real estate agents, and others.

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Reckoning: The Duty to Correct Under RPC 3.3

WA Bar News

a)(1) for failing to correct a statement made to a court that he had the original documents confirming a real estate transaction, when, as it turned out, he did not. The facts involved need not be evidentiary facts in the sense that the lawyer would qualify as a witness in the proceeding concerned under ER 602. 2d 451, 120 P.3d