by Dennis Beaver | consumer
August 27, 2011 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver Only about 40 percent of Americans do their taxes themselves. The rest of us hire a professional tax preparer, perhaps a CPA, or use a tax preparation service company such as H & R Block or Liberty Tax...
by Dennis Beaver | consumer
March 31, 2012 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver Recently we told you about the new California law which now requires that homeowners have a carbon monoxide alarm (detector) in addition to a smoke alarm. Interestingly, those articles generated a number of...
by Dennis Beaver | consumer
June 19, 2010 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver “Your article about noisy restaurants really got my attention. That has been one of my pet peeves as well as ordering an expensive bottle of wine in a restaurant or buying one at a wine shop only to...
by Dennis Beaver | consumer
March 19, 2011 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver Last week we began our analysis of structured settlements, which is a way in which large personal injury verdicts or out-of-court settlements are often set up. A portion – sometimes all of the money...
by Dennis Beaver | consumer, medicine
August 30, 2008 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver If you’ve recently had an appointment with an attorney, you were probably seen at or very near your scheduled time. The same can probably not be said for your last doctor’s visit, with good reason...
by Dennis Beaver | asset protection, consumer, consumer credit
May 26, 2017 • By Dennis Beaver If you ask most lawyers if it’s a good idea to loan a friend money to buy a car, you’ll probably hear a line from Shakespeare: “Neither a borrower nor a lender be.” The second part of that famous quote is less often heard: “For loan oft...
