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Q:        I am the Executor of my mother’s will and she has gone into the nursing home and the bank said I couldn’t handle her business without a power …

Q:        I received a letter from my employer’s insurance company about an injury I had about a year ago on the job.  They want to pay me less than $10,000.00 …

Q:        This is my question.  Suppose I hired someone to do work at my home and the person wasn’t licensed or bonded and that person gets injured while doing the …

Q: Why do workers compensation benefits reduce the amount of social security I receive? Charles Florence, AL A: The law of workers compensation is complicated and ever changing. Social Security …

Q: My son got his girlfriend pregnant and they broke up. She now has a new boyfriend and she says that it is the new boyfriend’s child. My son and …

Q: I read that if you live with someone for ten years you are entitled to part of their retirement. I was married to my ex-husband for 20 years but …

Q: When my ex-wife and I got divorced our two children were in private school. I agreed to pay extra child support to help pay for school. My children were …

Q: My husband was in a automobile accident and I have had to take off work to take care of him. I had to hire someone to help me with …

Q: My husband and I are going through a hard time in our marriage right now. He is verbally abusive to me as well as our children. I don’t have …

Q:        My mother died in June, 2014, before she passed away she had put my younger sister on her savings and checking accounts.  My mother also left a will …

In writing this column for the past ten years, I have tried to answer questions in a way that both teach and explain the law.  I have been clear that …

Federal courts in certain cases are required to use the law of the state that applies to a particular case and that is true to a certain extent in bankruptcy …

Q: I am going through a divorce after 12 years of marriage and my soon to be ex-wife wants alimony. Do courts still award alimony? Robert Athens, Alabama A: The …

Q: I had a car wreck and my lawyer had to file a lawsuit. Now my lawyer said the judge has ordered us to mediation. Why do I have to …

Q: I have children by my first husband and they have his last name. I was married for a short time and took my second husband’s name but we divorced …

Q: I was injured in an automobile accident when a driver of a car waved another driver through traffic that was stopped and that car hit me. The accident report …

Q: My wife had a car wreck in February. The guy who caused the wreck’s insurance company wants to record her over the phone telling them about what happened, should …

Q: My uncle is 81 years old. He has never been married and has no children. He has a sizable estate but does not have a Will. My mother (his …

Q: I was injured on the job and workers comp sent me to their doctor who treated me for a few weeks and released me to go back to work …

  Q:        I married a lady with a 2 year old child 6 years ago.  The birth certificate has no father listed.  The father has no contact with the child …