Legalese

HIPAA (not HIPPA, that’s not a thing) seems to be brought up in public debate quite a bit these days, so I thought I’d write about what it is (and isn’t).  I’ve noticed a good […]

Now that it is July, the laws that were passed in the last legislative session all come into effect.  Since “ignorance of the law is no excuse” and since it is virtually impossible to keep […]

I feel like I say this a lot, but I can’t say it enough: the time for estate planning is when you have absolutely no need for estate planning.  When you need it, it’s too […]

You may have heard about drug courts or DUI courts or mental health courts – what are they exactly?  These are not really separate courts, they are handled by existing courts and existing judges, but […]

What can you do if you see someone commit a crime and there aren’t any police officers around?  Do you have to just let the bad guy go?  Can you make a ‘citizen’s arrest’ like […]

I’ve written before about how to become the Executor of someone’s will, or how to become a Conservator for someone’s money if they become incapacitated.  What I haven’t talked about is what you should do […]

Lots of people have called me over the past couple of years wanting me to do ‘something’ about what they believe to be an unfair and certainly unflattering Yelp or Google review.  While this isn’t […]

It can be really confusing to figure out what is and isn’t a part of someone’s estate when they die.  It seems to make sense that whatever they owned when they died is a part […]

Lawyers are members of bar associations.  Some bar associations, like each individual State’s Bar Association, require mandatory membership if you want to legally practice law in that state.  Other bar associations are voluntary.  These can […]

Don’t yell about this unless you really see it. Lately in the news, I have heard a great deal about “free speech” and along with that some variation on the phrase “falsely shouting fire in […]

The pledge of allegiance is something that most of us learned in school.  I remember it being a rote part of mornings, something we did with hand over heart, not really thinking about the words.  […]

Most of us are aware of the three branches of government – the Executive, the Legislative, and the Judicial.  However, other than the basic awareness, it seems from many social media posts, often by people […]

Most Americans are under the impression that when they cast a vote for their choice for their candidate in the Presidential election that they are voting for that candidate directly.  They aren’t.  Our system is […]

If you are a nerd like me and you follow not so much the news but the inner workings of the court battles that the news then reports on, in the past week you have […]

I know, I know.  Your grandmother made the absolute best brownies.  She cracked the code in brownie making, and everyone says that you should sell them using her recipe. You make a mean muffin, too, […]

Georgia House Bill 463, passed this year and effective June 30, 2020, allows you to ask the Department of Drivers Services to issue you a copy of your Driver’s License in Electronic Form.  Everything else […]