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When a loved one is lost, the family needs to determine if probate administration is necessary to help transfer assets to the heirs.

Many parents want a child joint on their financial accounts so the child can help with their financial management if they are incapacitated. As a joint owner, the child can withdraw money from the account, write checks to pay bills or make deposits to the account.

One major area that clients often fail to address, which creates major difficulties for family members at death, is planning for and documenting digital assets

When thinking about estate planning, it may seem confusing to determine what documents should be prepared.  But the truth is, with the assistance of an elder law attorney it’s quite simple.

Employers use different restrictive covenants to protect their proprietary information and competitive status in their industries.  Restrictive covenants are often identified as confidentiality or nondisclosure agreements (NDA’s), trade secret provisions, nonsolicitation agreements, nonpiracy provisions, and noncompete agreements.  Noncompete provisions contractually outline certain activities that past employees may not engage in.  In Indiana, those noncompete provisions had to be narrowly drawn to protect the legitimate business interests of the employer and not unfairly restrict an employee in terms of the scope of the duration, the nature of the protection and the geographic range.  However, this type of restrictive covenant will soon […]