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Buyer & Seller Beware: Navigating Business Purchase Agreements (PDF)

The CPA's Role in Business Litigation: Legal Duties and Practical Considerations (PDF)

Padlocking the Piggy Bank: 529 Plans, UTMA, and 2503(c) Trust Options (PDF)

Estate Planning: Like Fire Insurance - Ensuring the Best in Case of the Worst (PDF)

Employment Law and Benefit Update (PDF)

Every year thousands of young adults graduate high school and head off to college. As parents help their children run through the checklist of items needed for college, the last thing on anyone's list is then need for the child to have legal powers of attorney prepared. However, as discussed in the remainder of this article, these documents can be very important if the need arises. In North Carolina, powers of attorney are statutory documents (authorized by Chapter 32A of the North Carolina G ...
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Every contract generally implies a covenant of good faith and fair dealing in the course of it performance by each party. What if party’s reliance on the express words contained in a contract is not in good faith? Can that negate the express provisions of the agreement? Such was the issue in the recent case of Transit Funding Associates, LLC v. Capital One Equipment Finance Corp., 48 N.Y.S.3d 110, 2017 WL 754335, decided February 28, 2017 by the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the ...
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