The pandemic has drummed up many questions surrounding the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), including what it is and who it applies to. In particular, a number of employers have wondered if it is a HIPAA violation to ask a…
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Until recently, few people have succeeded in shedding student loan debt through bankruptcy. Courts have required the person to prove that paying back the debt imposed “undue hardship,” a task that has proven insurmountable in most cases. However,…
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Newer federal legislation, if signed into law, would make it easier for depository institutions (banks, credit unions, and similar financial institutions) to provide banking services to legitimate cannabis-related businesses. The Safe (Secure and Fai…
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Businesses that survived the pandemic may soon have another problem: a quarter of their staff may leave their jobs. According to a recent Microsoft report called “The Next Great Disruption is Hybrid Work – Are We Ready?” up to 41 percent of wor…
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Creating a trust with the help of an attorney is only the first step in the estate planning process. Once the trust is signed, it is up to you to fund it. But how is that accomplished? How do you fund a trust? What is a trust? A trust is an estate pl…
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Whenever you sell businesses or investment property and you have a gain, you generally have to pay tax on the gain at the time of sale. IRS Section 1031 provides an exception and allows you to postpone paying tax on the gain if you reinvest the proce…
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One potential concern you might have while creating or amending your estate plan is whether somebody might challenge your will after you are gone. Nobody wants a messy probate fight for their family, but at the same time, the terms of your estate pla…
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President Joe Biden recently signed an executive order encouraging the Federal Trade Commission to limit or ban the use of non-compete agreements. In addition, there is a bill in Michigan’s legislature which, if signed into law, would create restri…
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The 2018 Michigan Regulation and Taxation of Marihuana Act decriminalizes the possession and use of marijuana by adults ages 21 and older in the state. The legalization of cannabis has prompted several legal questions for municipalities, employers, b…
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In a case that questioned if a public high school student’s First Amendment Rights were violated, the United States Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Pennsylvania teen who used social media to express her anger with her high school and two of its s…
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