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Advance Directives and POLSTs
I am often asked the difference between an Advance Directive for Health Care (ADHC) and a Portable Order for Life-Sustaining…
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Why an Estate Plan?
As we begin the last year of the decade, I thought it might be a good time to review just…
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Checking in with Cheri and Adam
Specializing in Estate Planning, Probate Law, Conservatorships, and Guardianships, local attorney Cheri Elson enjoys helping her clients plan not only…
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Probates and Trust Administrations
I am often asked to explain the difference between a probate and a trust administration and why I generally prefer…
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Business Transition Planning
The cats need a break from all these legal disputes. Every time they look over the hedge and see Bowser,…
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FRAUD BY CONCEALMENT
Bowser’s owner came over to pick up a key to the condo in Yachats. As a result of an accord…
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Accord and Satisfaction
On the advice of PeeWee, the little indoor cat next door, the cats consulted the Jack Rabbit’s attorney in Portland,…
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WAGES EXEMPT FROM GARNISHMENT
While looking for a mislaid pair of gloves, I poked my head in the closet where the cats keep their…
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BREACH OF FIDUCIARY DUTY
The cats returned from their winter vacation in Mexico to find that they had been sued by Bowser for the…
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Personal Loan Guarantee
Now the cats were in their element. They were going to use someone else’s money (PeeWee’s) and property (the Jackrabbit’s)…
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Lease With Option to Buy
I was able to secure a release of the cats from the product liability claim asserted by the Jackrabbit and…
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Product Liability
The Old Tom convinced Bowser that if he wanted to become older and wiser he needed to complete his purchase…
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Specific Enforcement of Contracts
The cats have a problem. In June they entered into a contract with Bowser, the dog next door who operates…
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Use of Nonlethal Force in Defense of Property
The cats decided to live inside their fenced enclosure to help protect their crop. They enlisted the help of the…
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Liability To Trespassers
The cats have invited their retired friend, the Old Tom, to come down from his home in the San Juans…
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Secured Loans
The cats have asked me to lend them $20,000. They say that they want to buy a coffee cart to…
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