by Dave Gormley | Posted in Civil Law & Consumer | Reading Time: 6 minutes
You did it! The taxes are done. It is tempting to shove it all in a file cabinet and forget about it until next year. Don’t do that – yet. Have you ever looked at all that information in your taxes? You should! It can be very valuable if you want to get healthy –…
by D'Erra Jackson | Posted in Family Law | Reading Time: 3 minutes
Each tax filing season can bring up thorny issues that will affect couples long after they’ve separated. Unless ex-spouses can set aside their differences, one or both partners will often end up overpaying. For example, one tax preparer in a Wall Street Journal story told of a tax return he did where the wife was…
by Dave Gormley | Posted in Bankruptcy & Foreclosure | Reading Time: 3 minutes
As a bankruptcy lawyer in Southern Maryland, I know people will be asking me what to do with their government stimulus check. To make sure I was ready to answer this question, I figured I would look at what advice financial experts are giving. The advice I read seemed to be the same advice that…
by Dave Gormley | Posted in Bankruptcy & Foreclosure | Reading Time: 3 minutes
Like so many things in life the answer to this question is “that it depends.” The right advice for one person can be the wrong answer for someone else. A person laid off from a restaurant is in a different situation than a person who is working for the federal government. Recently, some clients have…
by Tucker Clagett | Posted in Civil Law & Consumer | Reading Time: 3 minutes
Two new federal laws take effect April 1, 2020. Both were created in response to the Covid-19 threat on March 18, 2020. Both provide significant new protections for employees. And, predictably, both are confusing and unclear! Our firm does not handle employment law cases, but since these laws are of great interest to many of…
by Dave Gormley | Posted in Bankruptcy & Foreclosure | Reading Time: 3 minutes
In a chapter 13 plan you are supposed to send in regular plan payments to the bankruptcy trustee. The Trustee disburses the money to the creditors. Usually this payment comes right out of our paycheck after the plan is confirmed. If you don’t get a paycheck because you were laid off because of COVID19, those…
by Dave Gormley | Posted in Bankruptcy & Foreclosure | Reading Time: 5 minutes
Even if you have been keeping up with your bills, now is the time to do some emergency budgeting. Nobody knows how bad this will get. (Things have been changing fast. This post was published on March 14th. Not even a week later bars and malls were closed. Now the problem is even bigger. Unemployment…
by Dave Gormley | Posted in What's New With Us | Reading Time: 2 minutes
With everyone in Waldorf and Southern Maryland having busy schedules, and many having long commutes, getting to your lawyer’s office can be a challenge. Because of this we have always been willing to do appointments and consultations by phone. Now with the with the corona virus going around you there is even more of a…
by D'Erra Jackson | Posted in Family Law | Reading Time: 2 minutes
Normally, the legal issue of who can claim the children will be something your lawyer will deal with during the divorce. If you have children of the marriage, your separation agreement or divorce decree will usually address the issue of who gets the kids at tax time. This is something that can be negotiated. You should…
by Tucker Clagett | Posted in Civil Law & Consumer | Reading Time: < 1 minute
Well it almost was! In some real “news of the weird” from the IRS, they recently removed a piece of guidance from October 2019 that attempted to tax in game currency like Fortnight Vbucks and Roblox’s Robux. If you don’t know what those are, ask a 12 year old. They are online game currency you…
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