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How Are Child Custody Agreements Modified?

Over time, a change in circumstances might leave you feeling dissatisfied with your current child custody agreement. If a judge decided your child custody arrangement, you must petition the court to have the order amended. To request a change to your custody agreement in Massachusetts, you must show that: There has been a significant change in circumstances, such as one parent moving out of state, ...

DON’T BE REASONABLE, BE LEGAL

How to Succeed in The Highly Regulated Landlord Business REDUCE IT ALL TO WRITING. The lease agreement creates the contractual relationship between you and your tenants. It must be carefully drafted, reviewed, and retained. No matter what is agreed, tenants cannot waive their rights. It lays out the responsibilities of each party, the rent due, the manner of payment. Be sure to include federal and ...

The Importance of Estate Planning: You Never Know!

Taunton Estate Planning with Percy Law Group, PC Let’s talk about the idea of protection when it comes to your family. Estate planning protects your immediate family, or designated loved ones, from worrying about who receive your assets and property when you pass on, from entering probate, and from long-distance family members popping up out of nowhere to stake their claim. Not only does estate ...

Why You Should Avoid Using Social Media During Your Divorce

Social media is a tool many of us use to stay connected to friends and family, in addition to expanding our social network. However, if you are going through a divorce, this tool can be turned against you. Everything you post and share online is evidence that can ultimately be twisted and used to derail your case. As a general rule, the best thing you can do is avoid social media until your ...

Do Buyers Understand Their Mortgage Financing Options?

Just because homebuyers receive a significant amount of information about the home purchase process, doesn’t mean they would take the time and effort to explore their mortgage financing options. However, recent studies by Freddie Mac have identified the most common financing assumptions among potential homebuyers. The following are the most common assumptions made by prospective homebuyers: It’s ...

What is an Attractive Nuisance?

What is an Attractive Nuisance? Children definitely know how to get into trouble, given their curious nature. Therefore, it is important for property owners to ensure that their property is safe and there are no irresistible features that might lure children into a hazardous situation. Such dangerous enticements are also known as attractive nuisances. If your child was harmed on someone else’s ...

Resolving a Divorce Settlement as Fairly as Possible with Mediation

When you first told your husband you wanted a divorce , you may have said things like, “I only want what’s fair for both of us and the kids.” Or, “I’m not looking to turn this in to an all-out war.” Wise words indeed... But wanting a fair divorce and actually figuring out what is fair in a divorce settlement are two entirely different matters. Attorney Russell R. Weddell is a trained family law ...

The Importance of Medicaid Planning

Our legal team at Percy Law Group, PC has been helping clients throughout Massachusetts plan for their futures for more than 25 years. We strive to achieve the best possible result for every case we take on, and our attorneys will use their years of experience and our firm’s extensive resources to pursue your goals in a cost-efficient manner. We recently met with a couple who just started their ...

Cancelling Child Support After a Negative DNA Test

Child support matters can be some of the most complicated and contention-fraught cases to ever cross a lawyer’s desk. Because Massachusetts child support orders are all but set in stone, cancelling an unfair order after the fact can be an uphill battle for clients – but it may be a necessary one to prevent further injustice. In one recent example, our family law team at Percy Law Group, PC, was ...

First Time Homebuyers Sometimes Need Extra TLC

At Percy Law Group, PC, we understand that buying a home is one of the biggest purchases you will make in your life. That is why we are here to make sure that your transaction is as smooth as possible. Our real estate attorneys have assisted buyers, sellers, and banks throughout Massachusetts for nearly three decades, and we know how confusing the process can be for first time buyers. Last month, ...

The Most Common Forms of Distracted Driving

Many of us pride ourselves on being masters of multitasking, but one place where you should never test your ability to do multiple things at once is while you are behind the wheel of a motor vehicle. Any time you engage in any other activity besides driving while operating a motor vehicle it is considered a form of distracted driving and it is incredibly dangerous. Although we tend to associate ...