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When it comes to planning your estate, having your life’s documents organized and ready to create your estate planning documents can help you save hours of your time, not to mention saving you the added headache of trying to find the information that you need. An organizer is not a legal document. It, however, can become part of your estate if you leave instructions to your executor.

To get your documents in order, you should list all of your basic information, such as your address, legal name, a...

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Comments | Posted in 2014-Jun By Sanket Mistry

Hiring an attorney is generally a good idea. That is if you can afford one. With the rising costs associated with the legal practice, and of legal education, the high cost of a lawyer may not be merited if you have a small issue.

Sometimes all you need is the right information. That, of course, is the key: the right information. Finding good legal information that you can rely on as a non-lawyer can be stressful. You may not even know where to turn.

One place is your local library. Most public lib...

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Comments | Posted in General Sanket Mistry 2014-Mar By Sanket Mistry

The Lingo of Wills

2/13/2014 10:45 AM

When most people talk about a will, they mean a Last Will & Testament. This includes lawyers as well as non-lawyer. It is common enough of a term that if you said simply, “I want to create a will,” most people will know what you mean.

There are a few types of wills. If you want to refer to these other types of wills, such as an ethical will or a living will, you would want to say the full name. Simply saying “will” can lead to confusion. If you go around saying last will and testament, you might ...

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Comments | Posted in Sanket Mistry 2014-Feb By Sanket Mistry

Understanding the differences in estate planning documents can help you to get organized which can, in turn, help you cover all of your bases. Your wishes are probably complicated. That’s ok. Most people have complicated wishes that tend to change overtime.

If your wishes are different from what someone would expect, then you might want to think about providing some type of explanation as to why you are making some of the decisions that you are making. No place is that more important that with a ...

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Comments | Posted in Sanket Mistry 2014-Feb By Sanket Mistry

The ethical will has a name that is misleading and can confuse people. An ethical will is in fact not a will at all. An ethical will is, rather, a personal statement that you make to loved ones that is passed to your loved ones after you have died.

An ethical will is not a legal document and therefore can take any format that you wish. It can be a video, a group of letters, or it can be more than one single thing. Generally, however, an ethical will is a letter.

You should create on ethical will p...

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Comments | Posted in Sanket Mistry 2014-Feb By Sanket Mistry

The law can be very complicated and at the top of that list, just behind property law (obviously!), is contracts law. For me, contracts was my favorite course in law school. Contracts is also the one class I went into thinking, I probably already know some of this information. Sometimes having an air of confidence can lead to bad endings, but not in the case of contracts law. My contracts course in law school also ended in the same sort of way, I felt I already knew most of it, but it’s the deta...

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Comments | Posted in Contracts Sanket Mistry 2014-Feb By Sanket Mistry

The concept of downloadable forms is not complicated. You get the basic gist of it. You buy a form online (we’ve got ‘em!), you download it, open it, and complete it. Sounds simple, right?

Absolutely, yes! You got it. (What? Were you expecting no? Come on, it’s not that complicated an idea and we don’t pretend to make it one.)

The functionality of a downloadable form is usually pretty simple and straightforward. How long you have access to a form you have purchased depends on the place you buy it ...

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Comments | Posted in General Sanket Mistry 2014-Feb By Sanket Mistry

Contracts law 101 begins with offer, acceptance, and consideration. Most people have some level of understanding when it comes to the first two - offer and acceptance. Not only do most people have experiences with offer and acceptance, the language adds to the familiarity. Consideration, on the other hand, is as an unfamiliar word as it is a legal concept.

Consideration is often used with its Latin equivalent, “Quid Pro Quo” which translates as something for something. In contracts jargon that me...

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Comments | Posted in Contracts Sanket Mistry 2014-Feb By Sanket Mistry

Lawyers are a crafty bunch. They can make clever arguments and most are competent to speak in public. It does take quite a bit of education to become a lawyer and with that some level of intelligence.

Yet, many lawyers are not comfortable with technology. This is especially true when lawyers want to create a website for their own law practice. Most lawyers would rather outsource the project. They see it as a simple business expense. After all, a basic bare-bones website will cost very little.

Outs...

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Comments | Posted in General 2014-Jan Sanket Mistry By Sanket Mistry

A house is the most valuable thing that most of will purchase in our lifetime. Even those few who are lucky enough to own more than one house still have a house at the top of their list of their most valuable purchases. It’s no wonder that we end up spending most of our time at home. We put up signs like, “Welcome,” and “Home Sweet Home.” We spend hours making the house feel like a home. No other place is as personal as a home.

It is only natural that we would want to protect your home. We want t...

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Comments | Posted in 2014-Jan Contracts Sanket Mistry By Sanket Mistry

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