by coder | Jun 30, 2017 | Blog: Bankruptcy
Debt collectors are known to use a variety of scare tactics to force individuals into paying a debt. A recent Supreme Court case, however, issued a decision on how to define the role of debt collectors. In the case of Midland Funding LLC v. Johnson, the Court held...
by coder | Jun 23, 2017 | blog
The Supreme Court recently ruled that the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) prohibits individuals who think that they are experiencing abusive debt collection practices to initiate legal actions against banks have bought defaulted loans from other lenders....
by coder | Jun 20, 2017 | blog, Blog: Probate
A “portability election” refers to the ability of a surviving spouse to claim the unused portion of the federal estate tax exemption for a deceased spouse and add this amount to the balance of the surviving spouse’s own exemption. In January of 2017, the Oklahoma...
by coder | Jun 17, 2017 | blog
The Oklahoma House of Representatives recently passed a resolution recently that declared abortion is a form of murder and that the state should use all the power in their authority to prevent abortion. While a resolution does not grant a state the same power as a...
by coder | Jun 15, 2017 | blog, Blog: Bankruptcy
The Supreme Court of the United States is poised to hear a bankruptcy case in Merit Management Group LP v. FTI Consulting Inc. This case has the potential to resolve a current circuit split about a section in the Bankruptcy code that protects certain types of payments...