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Written by Steve Nofar
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Estate planning is all about control. With an estate plan you can control both financial and non-financial aspects of your estate. At your death you can designate “who gets what and when they get it”. For many people, the most compelling reason for having an estate plan is to make sure their intended beneficiaries receive their estate assets and to make sure certain others do not receive their estate assets. The truth is if you do nothing (i.e. have no estate plan in place at death) your state of residence and the probate court(s) where assets are located will step in and transfer your assets according to a state created will ("intestate succession"). This state created will may distribute your estate to people that were not intended to benefit from your estate. Without an estate plan, you are essentially forfeiting control of your estate. As you will see in this article, this is especially true for same-sex couples and unmarried heterosexual cohabitants (aka "partners").
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Written by Norton Gappy
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Text Message Excerpts of Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick
In public statements and under oath, Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has denied repeatedly over the past four years that he had a sexual relationship with his chief of staff, Christine Beatty. The issue was central to claims by former police officers who sued the city and Kilpatrick, accusing the mayor and Beatty of retaliation in part because of what the cops knew about Kilpatrick's private conduct. The Detroit Free Press was able to obtain nearly 14,000 text messages from Beatty's city-issued paging device. The messages reveal hundreds of personal exchanges between the mayor and Beatty in September-October 2002 and April-May 2003. It is reported that many describe a sexual relationship, often graphically. The two of them arranged trysts, plotted to spend nights together while traveling on city business and discussed their fears of being caught by the mayor's security team. The messages below were released by the Detroit Free Press, and have been reprinted below to try and shed some light on what may have really happened.
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Written by Steve Nofar
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You Received Your LSAT Results. Now What?
You signed up for an LSAT prep course, paid the tuition, studied hard, took the LSAT, and received your LSAT score. Is your score good enough to get into the law school of your choice? What law schools do you have a solid chance of gaining admission? To see how competitive you are at different law schools, check out Legalnut’s law school search tool.
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