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Revitalize Your Business with Spring Contract Cleaning
Spring isn’t just for cleaning out garages and closets. It's also the perfect time to refresh and renew your business practices. One area that often goes unchecked is your business contracts. These...
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Estate Planning and Taxes: Key Considerations
The Importance of Estate Planning During Tax SeasonEstate planning is an essential process that not only ensures your wishes are fulfilled after your passing but also can substantially impact the...
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Navigating Employer Ownership of Employee-Created IP
The growing significance of intellectual property (IP) in today’s innovation-driven workplaces cannot be overstated. Understanding ownership rules for employee-created IP is crucial for avoiding...
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Essential Estate Planning Tips for Unmarried Couples
Unmarried couples face unique legal challenges when it comes to estate planning. Without the inherent legal protections that marriage offers, it's crucial to ensure your partner is covered in case...
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Why You Should Hire a Lawyer for Help with Business Negotiations
Our team at Tarantino Law, PLLC, knows you care about your business, and we want to help you ensure it remains successful. If you are planning to enter into business negotiations of any kind, we...
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Common Misconceptions About Personal Injury Law
In our experience at Tarantino Lw, PLLC, there is a great deal of misinformation surrounding personal injury law . The media often paints...
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What You Need to Know About Pet Trusts
Our team at Tarantino Law, PLLC, has extensive experience in estate planning. We want to help you take steps to take care of your loved ones after you pass away. In our experience, one aspect of...
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Five Common Myths About the Probate Administration Process [infographic]
Probate is a legal process where a deceased person’s estate is managed and their assets are properly distributed according to their wishes or state laws. Many myths surround...
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What is a Living Will?
One of our areas of practice here at Tarantino Law, PLLC, is estate planning. This field focuses on what happens to you and your assets as you near the end of your life, and what happens after. Our...
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Common Estate Planning Mistakes to Avoid
Our team at Tarantino Law, PLLC, has extensive experience in estate planning . If you are ready to start making plans for the end of your...
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The Different Types of Powers of Attorney and Their Uses
There are moments when navigating legal paperwork is like attempting to read a map in a foreign language. But it’s important to understand the power of attorney...
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Probate Administration: A Quick Look at the Steps in the Process [infographic]
Probate administration is a legal process where a deceased person’s estate is distributed to heirs and any debt owed by the decedent is paid off. Probate...
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The Role of a Living Will in Healthcare Planning
A living will represents your decisions for healthcare when you are unable to voice them. Let’s examine why a living will is an essential...
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Why You Need Advance Directives in End-of-Life Planning
Talking about end-of-life issues is surrounded by unease and doubt. But advance directives provide clarity, like a lighthouse through the mist. These legal agreements guarantee that your desires...
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How to Choose the Right Agent in Your HCPOA: Tips and Considerations
Creating a Health Care Power of Attorney HCPOA is like choosing a captain for your ship in uncharted waters. Your agent will navigate...
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Reasons for Young Families to Start Estate Planning
When you’re raising a family, estate planning may seem like a faraway issue. But it’s a crucial step for your family. Estate planning should...
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Wills 101: What Not to Include in Your Will
Wills are the foundational component of most estate plans; if you have started the estate planning process, chances are, you will begin this process by creating a will....
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Common Myths We Hear About Trusts
When you put together your estate, you may originally think you do not need a trust. This is one thing we often hear from our estate planning clients, and it stems from the many myths that surround...
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Estate Planning: 3 Times to Update Your Will
Your will should be an ever-evolving legal document to ensure it continues to protect your interests and represent your wishes as your life changes over time. Although we generally recommend...
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Ready to Start a Business? Here’s Why You Need a Lawyer
When you start a business, it can seem like there are a million things on your to-do list. But one of the tasks that should be at the top of your list is hiring an attorney to protect the ongoing...
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3 Times to Hire a Business Law Attorney
As a business owner, there will likely come a day when you need to hire a business law attorney to provide legal advice or guidance. The key...
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What Is a Power of Attorney, and Do You Need One?
At Tarantino Law, PLLC, we are well-versed in many different areas of law, including estate planning. When it comes to creating your estate plan, there are many things to consider, such as your...
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Why You Should Hire a Lawyer to Fight Traffic Tickets
Even the best drivers can get traffic tickets . Maybe you were distracted and exceeded the speed limit. Perhaps you had a broken tail light. But whether you made an...
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3 Reasons Estate Planning Is Important
You may believe estate planning is only for older, wealthy people with huge properties and assets, but the truth is that estate planning is...
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What You Need to Know About Succession Planning
When running a business, it’s important to plan ahead, thinking about everything from your next product order to your goals for the next quarter or year. In addition, you should also think about...
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Dispelling Common Myths About Traffic Tickets
At Tarantino Law, PLLC, we work in many different legal areas, including traffic law. We have helped countless clients deal with traffic tickets over the years...
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Estate Planning: Three Key Things to Consider
One of the many things that our team at Tarantino Law, PLLC can help you with is estate planning, or preparing for the end of your life. The process of estate planning includes deciding what you...
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Don’t Start a Business without a Solid Business Plan
You want to start a business. But to do this and do it successfully, you need to create a solid business plan. Before you start a business ,...
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Estate Planning: What You Should Know About Digital Assets
Today, many of your assets may be in digital format. For example, you may have social media accounts, digital photos, email accounts, and other forms of digital information that hold significant...
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Do You Really Need a Small Business Lawyer?
As you start a new business, you want to keep costs down to boost your profits as much as possible. Although you may not think it is necessary right at first, hiring a...
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Business Law: Our Tips for Developing Solid Contracts
As a business owner, contracting with employees, clients, and suppliers is a large part of running your business. A bad contract can put your business in a tough position, while solid contracts can...
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4 Tips for Successful Estate Planning
It’s never too early or too late to start estate planning . Whether you are a young professional with a growing family or an empty nester...
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5 signs it’s time to make a will [infographic]
Creating a will may not be very high on your to-do list. But accidents happen, and you want to be prepared. If any of these life events happen to you, it is time to contact our law firm to create...
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Types of Powers of Attorney
Here at Tarantino Law, PLLC, we want to help you with all of your estate planning needs . For most people, one of those needs is setting up...
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3 Common Mistakes in Estate Planning
Here at Tarantino Law, PLLC, we have extensive experience in estate law , and we have helped countless people with the estate planning...
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Do You Need a Lawyer to Help with Traffic Tickets?
Traffic offenses come in many forms and range from minor to severe. The same principle applies to traffic tickets–depending on the nature of the offense and on your previous driving history, the...
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How a Lawyer Can Help You Start a Business
Here at Tarantino Law, PLLC, we provide a wide range of legal services to meet a variety of needs. One of the many areas that we practice in is business law, and we have the...
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7 Traits to Look for in the Lawyer You Hire [infographic]
Enlisting the assistance of a lawyer is a serious process and one you want to get right if you are facing a legal situation of any severity or complexity...
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What is a Power of Attorney?
A power of attorney gives someone you trust the authority to act on your behalf when you are otherwise incapacitated. Without a power of attorney, a family member or friend might have to go to...
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What is Asset Protection?
Here at Tarantino Law, PLLC, we offer assistance in a variety of legal matters, including estate planning, business law, and more. One of the most common issues that brings people to seek our help...
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If You Think Making a Will is Too Expensive, Read This
You hear the term “probate” and automatically think it is something you want to avoid at all costs. Although evading probate is possible in some cases, this process is really just a simple...
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Is Having a Will Actually That Important?
You work hard every day to own a home, buy the things you want, provide for your kids and pets, and live your version of the American dream. But what happens to all your property – and your kids...
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What You Need to Know About an HCPOA
Here at Tarantino Law, PLLC, we specialize in estate planning. This term refers to a collection of different but related issues, with one of the most important being an HCPOA, or health care power...
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3 Questions Your Lawyer Will Ask During Estate Planning Process
Here at Tarantino Law, PLLC, we understand that, while necessary, the estate planning process can be an emotionally challenging time–after...
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3 Reasons to Work with a Small Business Lawyer
Here at Tarantino Law, PLLC, we want to help you make your small business a success. In our experience, many small business owners–especially those whose business has been operative for less than...
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Advance Directives: What They Are and Why You Need Them
Although everyone would like to believe that they will keep their physical and mental faculties all of their days, the truth is that such things are impossible to guarantee. Accidents can happen at...
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When Should You Contact an Attorney for Legal Services?
When should you contact an attorney about retaining legal services...
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How to Start a Business as a North Carolina LLC
One of the first decisions you will need to make when you start a business is how your company will be formed. There are various options to consider, such as sole proprietor, partnership, LLC, or...
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Answers to Common Questions About Eminent Domain in North Carolina
Growth in our area is exciting, and here at the office of Tarantino Law, PLLC, development in the Terrell, North Carolina area seems to constantly surround us. While this growth is mostly positive,...
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How North Carolina Estate Planning Laws Vary from Other States
Every state has its own estate planning laws in place regarding such documents as wills, living wills, health care powers of attorney, and powers of attorney. Being abreast of your state’s laws is...
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Legal Services: The Main Areas of Law Practiced by Lawyers
As I pursue my law degree and learn more about the legal services attorneys in my local area provide, I have found it fascinating to find out more about the different areas of law that exist. Here...
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All good things must come to an end!
Fourteen years ago my brother Jeffrey and my Dad opened my brother’s dream shop, Highway Tire. At the time I was in college and planning to go to law school. However, after the loss of Jeffrey, I...
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