Past earnings can be examined, whether someone earned a paycheck or instead earned income through self-employment. Future earnings often involve projections based on past earnings, qualifications, industry averages, projected increases and the like. In the context of litigation this may well... View More

Yes. The terms of leases come from negotiation between the landlord and particular tenant and the terms of each lease needn't mirror each other. (Naturally a Landlord cannot illegally discriminate by say setting rents for one ethnicity higher or lower than another, but assuming that no... View More

The law does not require any industry (whether legal, medical, retail, industrial, etc.) to give raises. Providing raises is entirely voluntarily and up to each employer. The law does require payment of certain minimum wages so if an employer pays minimum wage and the minimum wage goes up, the... View More

He should talk to a lawyer, ideally in the state that issued the child support order.

You'll need to ask this question of a Mexican lawyer. Maryland courts ordinarily would have no jurisdiction over a foreign doctor.

Yes, it is legal for spouses to plan independently of each other although not typical. It is highly preferred that spouses keep each other appraised of their plans.

The law does offer some protection in that a spouse cannot be entirely disinherited - at least 1/3 of a person's probate... View More

As another attorney noted, tenancy by the entirety property would become100% the wife's by operation of law if and when her husband passed.

This question was asked in Maryland, so presumably this involves Maryland property. Legally, this really involves two questions:

1) Can the lender call the entire note due on the house if the borrower dies?

(answer: usually not if a relative inherits)

and/or

2) Can... View More

What needs to happen depends on what was supposed to happen to the property after your divorce. If a divorce decree required that this be signed over to you, then it might be a (relatively) simple matter of having the Personal Representative of his Estate signing over the deed to complete the... View More

We've certainly faced a cold snap here in Maryland that has taxed many heating systems! If the lease puts all utilities on the tenant then it is unlikely that the LL would have a legal obligation to contribute even in exceptionally cold/hot months. However, as another attorney noted, one... View More

In short, yes.

A grandparent might deed property into a Trust (as another attorney noted), or simply do a deed transfer directly to the intended recipient. If the goal is to allow someone to inherit the property without going through probate this may be best accomplished through a life... View More

It isn't clear whether the post means refusing the inheritance or refusing to "sign over" the inheritance. In either case, an estate in Maryland would require an attorney licensed in Maryland (although parties are free to represent themselves).

Unless the concerned parent is a medical professional who learned the news in a professional capacity, talking with the parents of a child's boyfriend/girlfriend would not seem to violate any known privacy laws.

You're encouraged to sit down with a lawyer experienced in international business law (many attorneys in and around DC have such skill sets) to go over the specific scenario at issue. An online post cannot realistically analyze such a fact pattern.

If the deceased had a Will, then generally the Will controls who inherits. If the Will generally says something like "I leave... to my children" or if the deceased died without a Will, then Maryland law sets forth the guidelines for who is a "child" for purposes of... View More

In most cases it would be a conflict of interest for an attorney to sue a party they represented.

The law offers some limited exceptions allowing representation if the attorney is not on both sides of the fence in the same case, believes it would not pose a problem and all parties consent... View More

Maryland law now recognizes entity conversions so that one can change an entity formed in another state to a Maryland entity (this could be a corp to a LLC, a corp to a corp, etc.). For more information you could look at the Corporations & Associations article of the Maryland Annotated Code,... View More

As the other attorney noted, joint tenants with rights of survivorship means the surviving owner takes 100%. Typically there are no steps to take with survivorship and the surviving joint tenant(s) simply owns the full property. When the survivor goes to sell, they would typically produce the... View More

The surviving owner(s) own 100%.

Maryland has 2 different ways siblings could own jointly together. The quoted language is only the first part of the deed and does not reveal how the property would pass on the death of one of the co-owners. An attorney could take a quick look at the deed and let you know the answer.