The Indiana Parenting Time Guidelines are guidelines regarding custody and parenting time arrangements which are utilized by courts, mediators, and attorneys in family law cases. Indiana has a domestic relations committee which worked on creating the guidelines and they are responsible for proposing updates to the Guidelines as needed. The domestic relations committee has proposed changes to ...Read More ...
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May 17, 2021 Federal Income Tax Extension
On March 17, the Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service announced that the federal income tax filing due date for individuals for the 2020 tax year will be automatically extended from April 15, 2021, to May 17, 2021. Individual taxpayers can also postpone federal income tax payments for the 2020 tax year due on April 15, 2021, to May 17, 2021, without penalties and interest, ...Read More ...
Indiana Recording Law Amended!
Our office wrote about a change to Indiana’s recording law a few months ago. It is imperative that documents are properly recorded because properly recording a document is essential to the validity of the document being recorded. Effective July 1, 2020, there was a minor but significant change in Indiana’s recording law that began requiring both a notary signature and a common law “proof” on ...Read More ...
Estate Planning for College Students
When you think of a student’s to-do list prior to leaving for college, you may not have considered your student’s estate plan. However, it should be. Estate planning for college-aged students is becoming more common and can provide protection, comfort, and convenience to both parents and their children while they attend college. Most students are eighteen by the time they attend college. This ...Read More ...
Prenuptial Agreements
A common scenario family law attorneys encounter is a divorce client who is unaware that all assets, no matter how titled, are subject to division in the case. The client may believe only assets titled in the parties’ joint name is subject to division, or that only assets incurred during the marriage are subject to division. Neither is true. It can be a shock to learn that all assets and debts in ...Read More ...
Converting a Cemetery Trust to a Total Return Unitrust
In the current low interest rate environment, cemetery trusts may be struggling to generate enough income to cover the cemetery’s maintenance and care expenses. In recent years, there have been legislative changes in Indiana to address, in part, this issue. One of those changes is that the Indiana Code now allows a perpetual cemetery trust to be converted to a total return unitrust, pursuant to ...Read More ...
