At the end of September, Attorney Bonnie Coleman participated in the Boys & Girls Clubs of Indiana Area Council meeting. The focus of the meeting was on event planning and fund raising for non-profit organizations during the pandemic. The Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Northwest Indiana recently completed two virtual fund raising opportunities which […]
On September 24, 2020, Attorney Shawn Cox was a co-presenter at a continuing legal education seminar put on by the Bankruptcy Section of the Lake County Indiana Bar Association. The subject of Attorney Cox’s presentation was pre and post bankruptcy issues related to property owners associations. If you or someone else are interested in learning […]
On October 10, 2020, Attorney Carl Hall and other members of the Demotte/Kankakee Valley Rotary Club assembled hand sanitizer stations for placement in certain areas in the Town of DeMotte. The materials to assemble the stations were donated by local Demotte businesses. The hand sanitizer stations are one of many community service projects the Demotte/Kankakee […]
On August 14 and 15, 2020, Attorney Shawn Cox attended the Sigmund J. Beck Advanced Bankruptcy Roundtable Seminar in Evansville, Indiana. The program is an annual “Masters Series Seminar” conducted through the Indiana Continuing Legal Education Forum, and it focuses on issues related to Chapter 11 bankruptcies. This was Attorney Cox’s fourth consecutive year attending […]
On August 28, 2020, Attorney Benjamin T. Ballou and Attorney R. Lawrence Steele attended the Indiana Continuing Legal Education Forum’s seminar on Probate and Trust Litigation. Some of the topics presented at the seminar included: applicability of the Indiana “Deadman Statutes”, No Contest Clauses and the use of Mediation in Probate and Trust litigation . […]
On August 14 and August 15, 2020, Attorney Emilie Hunt attended the annual Advanced Elder Law Seminar at Fair Oaks Farm in Fair Oaks, Indiana. Topics presented at the seminar included: Medicaid issues including the treatment of the retirement account of a Medicaid applicant or their spouse, Medicaid estate recovery, Medicaid changes due to COVID-19, advance […]
Attorney Carl Hall was recently selected to be on the Board of Directors for the DeMotte/Kankakee Valley Rotary Club and serve as the club’s Treasurer. The Demotte/Kankakee Valley Rotary Club serves the greater northern Jasper County area encompassing Demotte and Wheatfield and is a part of Rotary International. The goal of Rotary is to unite people and […]
On August 18, 2020, Attorney Steven Scott attended the Indianapolis Virtual EEO Seminar. The seminar included presentations from employment professionals from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on new changes to federal and state employment laws and inclusion in the workplace. If you or your organization are interested in learning more about employment laws and the […]
The Indiana Tort Claims Act (“ITCA”) governs tort claims against local governmental entities. The ITCA requires that notice of a claim must be provided to the governing body of the governmental entity, and to the Indiana Political Subdivision Risk Management Commission within 180 days of the complained injury. Strict compliance with the notice requirements is […]
As of July 1, 2020, certain changes went into effect regarding Indiana’s Probate and Trust statutes pursuant to Senate Enrolled Act 50. Once such change was Indiana Code § 29-1-7-3 regarding the devolution of real property of a decedent. This statute may provide an avenue for distributees to transfer real property without opening a formal […]