What visitation rights do grandparents have?

November 5, 2016 • By Dennis Beaver 
 Today’s story attempts to answer a question that is becoming relevant to our aging population of grandparents in this era of cars with highly advanced accident avoidance technology: As a condition of being allowed to spend time...

What you lose when using social networks

April 12, 2014   •  By Dennis Beaver  “Remember the Miracle on the Hudson photographs of U.S. Air Flight 1549 which was successfully ditched in the Hudson River by Captain Sully Sullenberger in January of 2009?” asks Loyola Law School and Thomas Jefferson School of...

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT DEPOSITIONS

December 19, 2005 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver I am employed by a school district in the areas where your column appears, not far from Fresno, and have been informed that I may be involved in a great deal of litigation. A supervisor told me that I needed...

What you need to know about mediation

September 2, 2006 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver Mr. Beaver, we are weeks away from being involved in a potentially expensive lawsuit over a business that I sold to friends last year. The personalities involved are all very strong, and it has become almost...