Revocable Living Trust: Six Point Yearly Checkup

It's a Living Trust! A yearly checkup is a good idea to keep abreast of changes in assets, trustees and addresses. Unless this is done in the proper manner your expense and effort at setting up a trust may not result in your current wishes being honored and may result in an avoidable probate.

Sample Last Will And Testament

A will or testament is a document by which the testator regulates the rights of others over his property or family after death. In a strict sense, a will is a general term, while testament applies only to dispositions of personal property. A will is also used as the instrument in a trust. A sample of last will and testament provides a standard format, which gives a basic guideline for writing a last will and testament.

When is a Person Too Incapacitated to Sign a Will, Trust, or Power of Attorney?

When is a person too incapacitated to sign a legal document such as a will, trust, or power of attorney? This article discusses some of the factors and legal rules that go into determining whether the person may legally sign these documents.

Advance Health Directive: The Living Will and The Power of Attorney

A living will, also called will to live, is one type of advanced health edict, or advanced health care principle. It often goes along with a specific type of power of attorney or health care alternative. These are legal tools that are usually witnessed or notarized.

Are You Prepared in Case of an Emergency?

If you were injured in an accident today would your family know what to do?

Appointing A Guardian For Child Care

In making provisions for the one's children's care, an important consideration would be the appointment of a suitable guardian should you pass away at the same time. This can be done via a will or a deed instrument to ensure that your children's care will not be neglected during their bereavement.

A Model Not To Live By - The Last Will And Testament

If ever anyone served as a model for having a last will and testament, it has to have been Anna Nicole Smith.

Living Wills in Kentucky

If you become unconscious or too ill to communicate your own medical care decisions then the staff will follow your living will, which gives you a voice in the type of treatment you want. As long as you are able to express your own decisions, your living will cannot be used and you can verbally refuse or accept any medical treatment you want.

How To Create A Creditor Debt Management Program

Creditor protection is a concern for most professionals, small business owners and others potentially susceptible to personal liability during their lifetime or after death.

Intellectual Property:Trade Mark Infringement - Pharmaceutical Product - Exhaustion of Rights

In the case of Bolton Pharmaceutical Co 100 Limited -v- Swinghope Limited and Others [2005], the claimant was the new owner of a trade mark registered in respect of a pharmaceutical product which was commonly used to treat hypertension. It acquired the product from AZ, another pharmaceutical company, in September 2004, who had previously sold its trade mark rights to a Spanish company.

Intellectual Property - Trade Marks - Distinctive Character Test - Landmark Decision

The recent decision by the European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) in Societ? des Produits Nestl? SA v Mars UK Ltd [2005], makes it easier for trade mark owners to satisfy the distinctive character test when applying for registration of their trade marks. The ECJ decided that the necessary distinctive character required for a trade mark registration can be acquired as a consequence of its use as part of another registered trade mark provided that an average, well-informed consumer would deem it to be distinctive of its trade origin.

Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights - What's the Difference?

A discussion of the differences between patents, trademarks and copyrights. What they protect. How long they last.

Intellectual Property – Patentability of Computer Programmes - Exclusions

Patenting computer programmes