(c) Can Stock Photo The Illinois Power of Attorney Act was recently amended. The Act requires an agent to maintain an accounting of everything the agent does with the assets and the funds over which the agent has control, and the new amendment puts some teeth in that...
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Overtime Changes May Be Coming
(c) Can Stock Photo In June 2016, we posted an article about the new overtime law that was to take effect on December 1, 2016. In November, 2016, a District Judge in the Eastern District of Texas enjoined (blocked) the expansion of the Overtime Pay Exemption under the...
Think About Long-Term Care Insurance
(c) Can Stock Photo In 2003, experts estimate that an estimated 37 million individuals will need some form of long-term care by 2050.[1] According to the AARP, approximately 65% of seniors will need some form of long-term care during their lives;[2] of those, 35% will...
Executors Fees in Illinois
(c) Can Stock Photo When people die leaving debts, other obligations and property and funds to be distributed to the rightful beneficiaries, the default mechanism for handling those things is called probate. Probate is the process of handling the estate of someone who...
Estate Planning and Divorce
(c) Can Stock Photo Anyone who is contemplating a divorce, is in the process of obtaining a divorce, or is recently divorced should think about estate planning. If you are still married, your spouse is considered your heir. So, an untimely death before your divorce is...
Roman Seckel Ends Year as Chair of the Batavia Chamber Board
Roman Seckel just ended his year as the Chair of the Batavia Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors. Roman served as director on the Chamber of Commerce Board before he began his stint as Chairman in August of 2017. Roman was in the enviable position of taking the...
What Will Happen to my Children if I Die?
(c) Can Stock Photo Estate planning is something that is very easy to put off. Most of us do it, sometimes for a very long time. Some of us until it is too late. Estate planning is also something that keeps us awake at night with questions like: What will happen to my...
Carolyn Jansons Appointed to Plan Commission
Carolyn Jansons will be putting her municipal law experience to use as a member of the Plan Commission for the Village of Elburn. Carolyn was appointed by Village President, Jeff Walter, to the Elburn Village Plan Commission at the Elburn Village Board Meeting on...
New Pet Laws in Divorce
(c) Can Stock Photo Beginning January 1, 2018, Illinois Judges have the authority to consider the well-being of pets in a divorce action. In the past, pets and companion animals, unlike service animals, were treated as property in a divorce (like furniture for...
Equal Parenting Time and Parental Alienation
(c) Can Stock Photo We recently published an article addressing the proposed legislation contained in House Bill 4113. HB 4113 would impose a starting presumption of 50/50 parenting time when it comes to child custody. “Child custody”, of course, is no longer a...
