Want to obtain limited legal advice and consultation without paying thousands of dollars or more for drawn out legal representation? A possible option, available in some but not all situations, is “unbundled” legal service. Much is being written on the subject these days. See, for...
This law office has commented in previous posts on financial abuse of the elderly and has recommended a few common sense steps to combat that threat, including financial powers of attorney [POA’s] so long as “well-drafted and responsibly used.” Recently, appellate courts in both Mississippi...
Anyone who has bought or sold a house, applied for a credit card, opened a checking account, borrowed money, or purchased a new car is all too familiar with the accompanying flurry of paperwork. Within the assortment of forms and almost without exception, one will...
When Ben Rogers found his friend Tom Sawyer whitewashing Aunt Polly’s “thirty yards of board fence nine feet high,” he declared that he was going swimming and added, “Don’t you wish you could? But of course you’d druther work, wouldn’t you?” “What do you call...
PIC Group v. Landcoast Insulation was a federal case in Mississippi arising out of the death of a worker and injuries to six others following the collapse of scaffolding. Claims for insurance coverage and indemnity followed, during the course of which requests were made for...
