Rushing & Guice Blog

Maritime Personal Injury Cases Can Be Complicated
When an injury or wrongful death occurs on board a ship, there are considerations to be weighed before a maritime personal injury action can be filed. One important question that needs to be answered is whether the person was a passenger, a worker, or a longshoreman when they were injured on the ship. Employees and longshoreman have other ways to have their injuries compensated for, but passengers are a...
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The Categories of Legal Malpractice
When a person believes that their lawyer has not performed up to the profession’s standards, they may have cause to bring a lawsuit against them. In general terms, legal malpractice may come down to one of three categories. If an attorney has violated one of these three standards of conduct, a client should contact an attorney with legal malpractice action experience to have their case evaluated. The three...
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Land Use Disputes Can Lead to a Claim of Adverse Possession
In some land dispute cases, one of the parties may file a claim for the other party’s property by citing “Adverse Possession”. A person that wants to take possession of another’s land that they have been using without offering money or any other compensation must have been using the property for at least ten years. It may be rare that someone has been using a property for ten...
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WILL THE NEW TAX LAW AFFECT MY MORTGAGE INTEREST DEDUCTION?
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was signed into law by President Trump on December 22, 2017. The new law reduces the limit on deductible mortgage debt to $750,000.00 for new loans taken out after December 14, 2017. Current loans of up to $1,000,000.00 are grandfathered and are not subject to the new $750,000.00 cap. Neither limit is indexed for inflation. Homeowners may refinance mortgage debts existing on December...
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