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Selling your Small Business (Part 1)
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Many people spend a great deal of their adult life dedicating themselves to often stressful and difficult job of owning and running their own small business, which, rather arbitrarily, for purposes of this article, means one that employs anywhere from 5 to 100 employees, and could be sold for roughly anywhere between $500,000.00 and $5,000,000.00,…
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Spring Cleaning: What to Do with that Unclaimed Property?
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READ ABOUT: “Do I Need Title Insurance?”
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READ ABOUT: “The Facts About Alimony”
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By: Rudman Winchell Attorney Anthony A. Trask THE ALIMONY ENIGMA One of the biggest concerns people have when they are contemplating or involved in a divorce is how it will impact him or her financially. For the most part the answer is simple: divorce will almost invariably have a profound impact on the financial situation…