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Living Will - Why You Need One Now!
 by: Beth Gabriel

Living Will - Why it’s critical that you have one!

By Tamashin Here is part 3 of Tamashin’s article on popular expressions in Brazilian Portuguese that he has been collecting. To read the previous parts click the relevant link at the end of the article.

This article and my articles “Overcoming Obstacles to Agreement” and “Negotiating Agreement” are about how to deal with disagreement–from simple difference of opinion to active upset and anger–and some specific steps that will help you reach an agreement. As you will see, the things you can do yourself are far more effective than anything a lawyer can do for you.

More than 90% of all cases are settled before trial. Unfortunately, too many are settled only after the spouses have spent their emotional energies on conflict and their financial resources on lawyers. The time and effort spent battling has impaired their ability to get on with their lives and may have caused serious psychic damage to themselves and their children. The spouses could have saved themselves all that simply by agreeing to settle earlier. Why didn’t they?

Okay, here you are, heading for a divorce; your spouse is going to be involved and you want to work out an agreement. What’s so hard about that? Why don’t you just do it? Easier to say than do, isn’t it? There are good reasons why it’s hard for spouses to work out an agreement–five, to be exact:

One of the most talked about topics in any political and social circle is the rising costs of health care. Some say the health insurance companies are to blame, while others point the finger at medical malpractice lawsuits. We may or may not ever come up with the right answers to this query, and we might just be talking in circles.

A proposal to simplify cross-border divorces across the European Union, debated by Justice Ministers of the 27-nation bloc on Thursday, ran into fierce opposition from Sweden . While most… [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MaltaMedia.com for full news, links, and other content. ]]

20.04.2007 - 09:23 CET | By Renata Goldirova EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – After six years of political wrangling, the European Union has agreed to make incitement to racism and xenophobia a crime across the 27-nation bloc, setting a jail sentence of at least one to three years.

Curling up with a good book can put our troubles in perspective, improve our understanding of others and dispel our negative thoughts. Eighteen years ago, when Julia Simpson was pregnant with her second child, she read the novel Beloved.

Succession planning requires the owner of a small or medium-sized business to plan for what the company will look like and how it will operate after the transition to new owners is complete. Unless the owners have succession goals in mind, they won’t achieve them. Once these goals are in place, the owners should backtrack and identify the process that will get the firm from its current status to the targeted status after succession. Some of the people involved in the process of transforming the company should be retained as future managers. Others are best utilized just for the transition but not in a managerial or ownership role after succession.

In an unusual move, Nassau County’s top matrimonial judge refused to rule on a disputed divorce case Monday until state lawmakers act on a pending no-fault divorce bill.

On April 20 of this year, President Bush signed a bankruptcy reform law. When this law goes into effect in October of this year, it will be much more difficult for Americans to use Chapter 7 bankruptcy to get a fresh start on their financial lives.