Paying decedent’s bills

April 04, 2009 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver Mary Ramirez and her husband Thomas have been receiving phone calls lately from a “very nice sounding young lady with a company called DCM Services, concerned that we do the right thing for the memory of...

Petty concerns create a neighbor from hell

December 04, 2010 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver Lawyers are in the business of helping their clients and want to believe what they are told. Occasionally, the actual facts and events turn out to be different than what was first described, and that’s...

Problem in our neighborhoods, foreclosures

January 07, 2009 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver You and I both know of a problem in our neighborhoods. It’s that vacant house on the corner — in foreclosure, abandoned by the family who used to live there. They could not afford to make the payments...