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Contract Surety 11.22.2024

Details, Details: Hiring Tips

Work is heating up. Help is definitely needed. There’s a shortage of skilled workers, so, just ignore those red flags and hire that candidate who seemed so affable, right? Most construction business owners have done…
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Details, Details: Hiring Tips
Contract Surety 11.22.2024

Trending: Possibilities for 2025

With so much building and modernizing to be accomplished around the country, it is anticipated that the construction industry will remain busy, so for contractors working to push their businesses forward, predictions about interoperability and…
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Trending: Possibilities for 2025
ERISA 11.19.2024

Personally Responsible?

Despite years of costly allegations over investment performance, many plan sponsors are not adequately monitoring. Lawsuits naming businesses–and their fiduciaries—-continue to underscore the importance of making decisions that benefit participants and documenting the prudent processes…
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Personally Responsible?
ERISA 11.18.2024

Is Bigger Better?

When it comes to a 401k, more savings for more employees is certainly better, and small businesses certainly can and do sponsor thriving retirement plans. Nonetheless, bigger 401k plans tend to have some built in…
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Is Bigger Better?
Court Bonds 11.01.2024

Survivor Trustee: Cognitive Continuity Clause?

In the face of long lives and a rise in the number of people experiencing cognitive decline, some attorneys point out that incorporating a “cognitive continuity clause” in revocable trust instruments can serve as a…
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Survivor Trustee: Cognitive Continuity Clause?
Court Bonds 11.01.2024

Administrator Responsibilities and Bonds

When someone dies without a will, the local probate court typically appoints an administrator to bring the affairs of the deceased to closure. Once debts are paid, the state laws of intestacy dictate the distribution…
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Administrator Responsibilities and Bonds
Court Bonds 11.01.2024

Supersedeas and Appeal Bonds

Though in some jurisdictions, the terms supersedeas bond and appeal bond are used interchangeably, other jurisdictions distinguish between the terms. Generally, a supersedeas or appeal bond enables the losing party in a civil litigation case…
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Supersedeas and Appeal Bonds
Court Bonds 11.01.2024

Assigning Assets To A Trust

Designating assets to a trust is an important strategy in estate planning. Trusts can be set up to specifically address a variety of familial goals, and even to earmark funds for our own eventual care…
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Assigning Assets To A Trust
Contract Surety 11.01.2024

Financing for Clean Power Projects

The first, national, green bank in the United States, the Coalition for Green Capital, is open for business, with the goal of directing $5 billion from 2022’a Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) into projects supporting clean…
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Financing for Clean Power Projects