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MTR Family Law, PLLC, will merge into Gullett, Sanford, Robinson & Martin, PLLC on Jan. 1. MTR will establish a new Family Law Practice Group at GSRM. The GSRM/MTR merger will expand the range of legal services and resources combining their 33 attorneys. These services now include family law, along with probate and estate planning, real estate and banking, insolvency, employment, corporat...

A federal law that went into effect on Jan. 1, 2020, is expected to affect inheritance planning for accountholders of retirement plans, such as an IRA. The Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement (SECURE) Act, which Congress approved in December 2019, requires non-spouse beneficiaries of inherited IRAs to liquidate the entire account within 10 years of the original accountholder...

Collage by Marco Amador. Photos by Jessica Goodheart. Jorge Tejeda stands in his kitchen wearing blue jeans and a Dodgers cap explaining to reporters why he is waiting for sheriff’s deputies to arrive and evict him, his mother and four younger brothers. “We’ve been up and down with the rent,” he says. “Sometimes food is more important.” He is shy, soft spoken and only 26. For the past few mon...

John McNesby, President of the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge No. 5. A Philadelphia judge has struck down a new city statute requiring a public hearing on proposed Police Department contracts, siding with the police union and ruling that the ordinance violates state law. The decision, issued earlier this month by Common Pleas Court Judge Angelo J. Foglietta, marks a blow to a legislative eff...

The Department of Justice (“DOJ”) recently announced a new Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative (the “Initiative”) that will use the False Claim Act (“FCA”) to pursue contractors and grant recipients that knowingly (1) provide deficient cybersecurity products or services, (2) misrepresent their cybersecurity practices or protocols, or (3) violate obligations to monitor and report cybersecurity incide...

MORAINE — Moraine City Council is working to eliminate certain crimes by amending its existing property maintenance and nuisance abatement law. The measure was approved by city council last month and went into effect this month. It seeks to address a wider array of health and safety related issues, including criminal conduct such as continued drug-related offenses, prostitution and gambling. ...

The new version of the bill establishes drastically lower enlistment targets than the previous text. HAREDI PROTESTERS decry the draft in Jerusalem. A government bill to increase ultra-Orthodox enlistment to the IDF was submitted to the Knesset on Wednesday with drastically lower enlistment rates than a previous version of the bill. The legislation is likely to be advanced only after the stat...

Whitmer proposes $32M investment for Michigan law enforcement  WNEM Saginaw

The public hearing will take place during the Village Board's regular meeting, on Monday, October 25 at 7:30pm, in the auditorium at Village Hall at 5565 Main Street WILLIAMSVILLE, N.Y. — The Village of Williamsville board will be holding a public hearing to seek residents' input on New York State's marijuana law and the opt-out provision for local municipalities. The public hearing will tak...

Marion Munley of Munley Law. Munley Law announced that Marion Munley spoke at the Western Trial Lawyers Association summer seminar, titled “Using the Defendants’ Words and Documents to Win Your Truck Case.” An advocate of victims’ rights and the civil justice system for over 25 years, Munley represents the catastrophically injured.