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The court appoints a conservator when a person can no longer make financial or healthcare decisions. A conservator can be responsible for the daily care of a disabled person. For example, administer medication, take the…
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Someone looking to become a mortgage broker or residential mortgage lender in California has to obtain a license. In order to use a California residential mortgage license for mortgage brokering activities, you need to hold…
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In most cases, Veterans Affairs beneficiaries are able to manage their own VA benefits. However, if a beneficiary is incapacitated by minority, injury, disease, or advanced age related reasons, the VA may conclude that that…
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Anyone looking to become a mortgage broker in New York has to go through the Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System (NMLS) to receive their mortgage broker license, with the New York State Department of Financial Services…
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When someone is deemed to be unable to care for him or herself, another person is able to petition a probate court for control over their affairs. That control is a conservatorship (or guardianship, depending…
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As medical and recreational marijuana become legalized in more states, the cannabis industry continues to grow. Americans spent more money on legal marijuana in 2017 than coffee; the industry is expected to grow to $22.1…
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More and more women are not only entering, but thriving within, the male dominated construction industry. Women were mostly in support-centered roles within the construction industry and never really had decision making authority, but that…
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Federal funding for the proposed $13 billion Hudson River train tunnel that would have connected New York with Northern New Jersey was excluded from President Donald Trump’s $4.7 trillion 2020 budget request to Congress. Deputy…
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Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin signed a bill into law in the State of Kentucky that allows notarial acts to be done electronically and remotely. This legislation brings Kentucky’s notary laws into step with the Revised…
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