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Estate planning involves the careful creation of legal documents that protect someone about later in life and the people that they love after that. Given that you have to consider your future death, you may have avoided creating an estate plan or rushed through the...
You’re a woman who has never let anything stand in the way of her goals, and you’ve finally reached a well-earned position of authority in your company. Now that you’re “the boss,” does that mean you no longer have to worry about sexual harassment? Not at all. In...
Every adult in California would benefit from having an estate plan. Even those who think about their dependents and their future deaths often stop after creating a will that explains what to do with their property or names a guardian for their children. They may not...
You come to work, and your boss doesn't appreciate how you're dressed. They tell you that you have to wear something else, perhaps outlining what type of outfit you should have the following day. You feel like this is a violation of your rights. Can your boss actually...
As an adult, you know the most responsible thing you can do is to create an estate plan, which includes a will. However, when it comes to understanding everything involved, there are a lot of complicated terms and legalese you must wade through. When creating your...
Getting an estate plan established is difficult for some individuals because it forces them to acknowledge that they won’t live forever. It might be even more uncomfortable for those individuals to discuss their estate plans with their loved ones. While there are...
California has earned a reputation as being a very employee-friendly state. State lawmakers have passed progressive laws that protect workers in many different situations. Workers have more rights in California than they do in states only covered by federal employment...
If you've recently moved to California, you probably knew that it was possible to earn overtime pay, but you may not be familiar with double overtime. This is a concept that is fairly exclusive to the state and is set up by state law, rather than federal law. You may...
A big part of making an estate plan, if you're a parent and your children are not yet adults, is picking a guardian. Many people tend to just focus on the financial side of the process, but deciding who is going to care for your children is likely far more important...
Any kind of hair-related policies have to be fair to all workers and must not be based in discrimination. For example, the employer could have a rule that no one can wear fantasy colors in their hair (like pink, blue or purple). That’s fine, because each person can...