Personal Injury Blog
How Do I Make a Will?
The first step you should take toward making a will?
Contact a Nebraska estate planning lawyer with experience in writing wills.
You need to make some decisions, such as choosing your beneficiaries, deciding on a personal representative (also known as an executor), deciding who should be guardian of your minor children, and choosing who gets what after you die.
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Driving in Bad Weather in Omaha? Check Your Shoes!
While your shoes may not be the first thing you think about before driving into an Omaha snowstorm or rainstorm, they can have a big impact on the safety of your driving.
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What Is Estate Planning and Why Should I Have It?
You may think that your income, assets, and bank accounts don’t warrant the creation of a will. But are you really willing to give up the control you have over the distribution of your assets, no matter how small, or the ability to say who will care for your minor children?
In Nebraska, your assets will be distributed, no matter how much (or how little) you own. That distribution can be via your own will or trust, or through the drawn-out Nebraska intestate (dying without a will) probate process. And the intestate probate process, in addition to being expensive, takes none of your wishes into account.
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Help! I Was in an Accident in Someone Else’s Car!
Getting into a car wreck is already scary enough, but the questions and confusion that arise if you were in someone else’s car make it worse.
In Nebraska, coverage comes down, in large part, to the specifics of each person’s insurance policies. With that in mind, as long as you have insurance, the vehicle itself is insured, and the other driver and vehicle are insured, then everything should be handled pretty smoothly. (If you have any legal questions, feel free to speak to our Omaha car accident lawyer at (402) 505-8234.)
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GoFundMe Is Not an Insurance Plan for the Future
With the rise of crowdsourcing websites, GoFundMe has made a name for itself by helping people in need raise money for medical bills and similar expenses.
While that is certainly a noble cause, it is important to remember that this type of site is not a replacement for insurance…or being careful.
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Starting Life Down $50K
What happens when parents don’t teach their kids how to handle money? Something like this…
Charles was a sharp kid. He was popular at school and enrolled in gifted classes. He was a varsity member of the football team and had a dreamboat beauty of a girlfriend. He was creative and wrote sketches and short plays for theater class. He played guitar and wrote songs and was a genuinely kind person. A Renaissance man. He was the kind of kid that teachers and older relatives and friends’ parents were all excited to see where life was going to take him.
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Who Decides Who Pulls the Plug?
Brain hemorrhage. Stroke. Spinal injury. There are a variety of sudden impacts to the brain that could occur in mere seconds, either from an unforeseen impact like a car accident or natural causes. In many instances, the sufferer is rendered comatose, unable to communicate to medical staff and loved ones, and ultimately helpless in the decisions being made concerning his own life.
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Honey, I Hit the Herd
On a chilly January evening in 1985, the Bennett family traveled to a small town in Southwest Nebraska to attend the funeral of the family matriarch. Jim, the father, drove his large, beloved 1983 Lincoln Mark VI with the radio playing quietly. His son, Billy, and Billy’s pregnant wife, Tammy, sat in the bench seat next to him; in the backseat were Jim’s wife, Paula, daughter Wendy, and 8-year-old David.
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Cocoa Gets Everything
We provide you with the following hypothetical scenario…
Robert was nearing 80 years old. He recently had a health scare battling pneumonia and, as a result, figured his beloved brown poodle, appropriately named Cocoa, would outlive him. Robert had spent his working years running a successful auto parts franchise and was quite comfortable financially. He had lost touch with his only child, a son named Darren, and Cocoa was the most important individual in his world. After the near-death experience, he decided to contact his lawyer about including Cocoa in his will.
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What Happens When a Car Hits Your House?
Imagine: you’re sitting in your comfortable Omaha home, perhaps watching the news or playing a board game with your family. Suddenly, you hear a thud and feel the house shake. You head to the front door to see if a tree fell, or if there was some weather-related incident, and instead find the front end of a vehicle crashed into your living room.
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