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Is Your Estate Plan as Stale as Last Week’s Ham Sandwich? 5 Reasons to Update Your Estate Plan

Estate plans are almost magical: they allow you to maintain control of your assets, yet protect you should you become…

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Wondering Whether You Need to Update Your Estate Plan?

Yes, You Do and Here’s Why Please allow us to be frank. It’s unrealistic to think that a piece of…

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Questionable Retirement in Social Security — Disability Attorney Serving West Valley City, Utah

The claimant began receiving retirement insurance benefits (RIB) in August, 1978, after claiming she was retired. She represented that going…

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Work Reductions for Excess Earnings in Social Security — Disability Attorney serving Magna Utah

The claimant was born September 13, 1911 and had worked as a casualty insurance salesman. He first became entitled to…

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Widow’s Social Security Benefits and Common Law Marriage — Disability Attorney Serving Tooele County

A claimant filed for widow’s social security benefits after the death of her purported common law husband. The claimant and…

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Mother’s Survivor’s Benefits in Social Security

A claimant remarried after the death of her first husband, who was domiciled in Rhode Island at the time of…

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Excess Earnings, the Retirement Earnings Test Exempt Amount, and the Grace Year in Social Security

A case from the 1980s, summarized below, deals with issues related to earning after one has begun retirement benefits. Claimant…

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Exempt Property for SSI (Home and Adjoining Property)

A claimant who applied for SSI in 1983 owned two adjoining plots of land. On one plot (Lot 5) was…

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Social Security Benefits and Work for a Tax-Exempt Employer

A claimant, born in 1920, filed for old age insurance benefits in 1985. She needed 31 quarters of credit (QC)…

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Re-opening a Social Security Disability or SSI Claim

Claimant filed a claim for social security disability benefits in April, 1981. His claim was denied. The decision became a…

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