by Dennis Beaver | education, lawyers
March 9, 2013 • By Dennis Beaver “I am considering swapping the classroom for the courtroom as our pay rate tops out at $80,000 here in Hanford. However, I’ve read articles recently about law graduates having enormous student loan debt and not finding decent paying...
by Dennis Beaver | housing, landlord/tenant
March 2, 2013 • By Dennis Beaver Recently, this column was contacted by a number of Section 8 tenants in the California Central Valley complaining about a company that manages an apartment house where they live. If you have never heard of Section 8, then it’s...
by Dennis Beaver | annuity, retirement
February 23, 2013 • By Dennis Beaver “My parents are both 70, retired and receiving Social Security. They have been savers, live frugally and now have close to $1 million in their IRAs. Recently, they attended a free retirement planning seminar dinner, hosted...
by Dennis Beaver | attorney fees, lawyers
February 16, 2013 • By Dennis Beaver Suppose that medical science found cures for the major diseases and conditions which have haunted mankind forever. Let’s also assume at the same time, more medical schools were being opened across the country, with these schools...
by Dennis Beaver | attorney fees, lawyers
February 09, 2013 • By Dennis Beaver While in their last semester at college, twins Glen and Brad — only 21 at the time — saw a newspaper ad offering a part-time job in “disaster restoration and remediation.” It would change their lives. “We remember the ad as if...
by Dennis Beaver | senior care, trusts
February 02, 2013 • By Dennis Beaver We’ve all read or heard this touching first line in a poem about aging, written by poet Robert Browning in 1864: “Grow old along with me. The best is yet to be; the last of life for which the first was made.” “At that time those...
by Dennis Beaver | annuity, insurance, retirement
November 17, 2012 • By Dennis Beaver
Lawyers are generally late to the party, rarely witness to events which can get someone arrested or sued. But occasionally, we are listening to jaw-dropping statements, and this time, it was a stream of absolute lies from two...
by Dennis Beaver | senior care, trusts
January 26, 2013 • By Dennis Beaver It is likely that you have never heard of the term “orphaned elder,” but you probably know at least one person who fits the definition. Even going further, your concerns could easily be the very same as those emailed to us from...
by Dennis Beaver | drug use, dui - drunk driving
January 19, 2013 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver Last week we told you about 21 year-old Sam, in jail on Jan. 2 after a New Year’s party turned horribly violent. A friend — mixing anti-psychotic meds with alcohol — attacked him with a knife. Trying to get...
by Dennis Beaver | drug use, dui - drunk driving
January 12, 2013 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver There is no instruction manual, no class, no test to pass before becoming a parent. All of us who have children are going to make some mistakes in how we raise them. Love and the need to nurture and protect...
