Deal, Moseley & Smith LLP Legal Blog
It is shockingly easy for typically responsible adults to be irresponsible when it comes to planning their estates. Many people dislike thinking about what happens when they die, so they may avoid estate planning when they should have documents for their own...
There are many reasons why a court-issued custody order may no longer serve the intended purpose for your family. Perhaps your work schedule has changed because you have moved on to a new profession. Maybe your children are the ones with the change to their schedule...
Sole proprietors are owners of companies or businesses that haven’t separated the business entity from themselves. During tax season, it’s normal to pay your taxes out for your business at the same time as you pay your own personal taxes. You have write-offs and...
Business partnerships form for many different reasons. Maybe you and your brother inherited the family business jointly from your grandfather, or perhaps you and your college roommate started a company together. Although you have long worked together, you believe your...
As you do your estate planning, the bulk of the work you do just distribute your assets to your children. Maybe you have financial assets in investment portfolios, or maybe you're distributing physical assets from your home. It's most likely some mix of both, as you...
You and your spouse may have saved for several years to put together a downpayment on your house. You may have spent weekends replacing the old plaster walls with more modern drywall or otherwise upgrading the property to generate sweat equity. You will likely have...
Every employee in North Carolina has the right to file a claim for workers' compensation if they get hurt at work. Someone who only works part-time or who just started at a company the week before can get the same benefits as a full-time worker who has been with the...
You’re working on setting up your business and know that you’ll need a business plan. What do you need in it, though? Do you need as much information as a larger business would? There are a few things that you should include in your small business’s business plan to...
Crashes happen everywhere, and North Carolina is no exception. Every year, the Department of Motor Vehicles collects crash data to determine what kinds of crashes are happening and how the number of crashes is changing from year to year. The last year of data...
Real estate investors in North Carolina often like to buy older, poorly-maintained homes. Buying a fixer-upper for cash gives you the opportunity to turn a significant profit. Through investment and sweat equity, you can turn a nightmare house into someone's dream...