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Getting “blood from stones” is an art which matrimonial practitioners are well familiar, especially while attempting to enforce support orders (alimony, maintenance, support or child support). As we all know, obtaining a support order is only part of the battle, ...

There are a few conflicting historical stock market phenomena pertinent to 2005, which is a post-election year and the fifth year of this decade. The S&P 500 index has performed remarkably well in the fifth year of each decade since ...

As year-end rapidly approaches, every business should review its options for cutting income taxes for 2004. Undoubtedly you’ve been doing tax planning throughout the year, but here are some last-minute strategies you shouldn’t overlook. If you were planning to purchase ...

There wasn’t a great deal of talk about global climate change during the Presidential campaign. In one debate, Senator John Kerry briefly mentioned global warming and that the Kyoto Protocol should be considered. President Bush, on the other hand, called ...

The first set of courts to really go “online” with access to the public, were the federal courts utilizing PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records), a system that provided U.S. District Court and Court of Appeals case information. Once ...

When defending personal injury actions it is accepted practice for the defense to retain a physician to conduct an independent medical examination (IME). Obviously, the defense is hoping the findings of its IME physician are at odds with those of ...

Sexual harassment claims brought by teenagers have sharply increased over the past three years, according to statistics from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Fast food industries, hospitality businesses and hotels or car dealerships are often the types of ...

New Tax Rules For SUVs Recent modifications in the tax law have made significant changes in the deductions for sport utility vehicles used by a business or donated to a charity. If your company is planning to purchase an SUV ...

On Oct. 22, President Bush signed the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 (AJCA), and with the stroke of a pen, put an end to the “double taxation” of attorney’s fees in employment discrimination litigation. The AJCA amends the Internal ...

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In 2001, Congress passed and the president signed sweeping tax reduction legislation. Estate taxes were significantly reduced by immediately increasing the per person exemption from $675,000 to $1 million and by further increasing the exemption to $1.5 million in 2004 ...