One of the cardinal rules of home improvements is always to get at least two (if not three) estimates. Why? When a homeowner gets more than one estimate, then usually Mr. Market works. Oftentimes there can be a considerable variation in prices. The low price for fungible goods is usually your best value. When "big box" retail home improvement stores came on the scene in recent years (think Home Depot and Lowe's), a whole lot of price competition got injected into the market.
For example, until recently I thought only a Pella dealer could sell Pella doors. Turns out Lowe's sells and installs Pella doors. It is the same product and the door ...
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“A windfall that borders on the obscene”
Those are the words of Nebraska Supreme Court judge William Cassel dissenting in the case of Wisner v. Vandelay Investments. The case result was that the estate of a 90 plus widow ended up losing real estate worth over a million dollars due to unpaid real estate taxes of $50,000.
Gladys Wisner owned 480 acres of Lincoln County, Nebraska real estate. In 2009 Gladys moved into a retirement community. In 2010, the real estate taxes became delinquent. In 2011, the county sold a tax certificate for the property. It yields interest at the rate of 14 percent. Because of that high rate, Nebraska has a very active market in these financial ...
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The Happily Married Couple QDRO
When people hear QDRO they think of divorce. But to the surprise of many there is no statutory requirement that a married couple divorce each other in order to transfer ERISA plan assets (usually a 401(k)) from one spouse to the other. The words "divorce" and "separation" do not even appear in ERISA.
I am one of the few attorneys in the country and the only one in Nebraska who can work this legal magic. And magic it can be as one married couple in the South was able to protect over $23,000 per year from the nursing home.
I spent over 100 hours researching and writing to adapt the In-Marriage QDRO to Nebraska law after I learned of it in ...
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