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Seniors More Likely to Face Foreclosure While the mortgage crisis seems to have fallen out of the news, seniors in particular are still reeling from its effects. Caught in a cycle of decreasing income but increasing expenses, the elderly have proven especially vulnerable to foreclosures. Find Out More…   Drillers Hose Texas Landowners with Fast & Dirty Fracking Hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking”—a method of oil and gas extraction—is already controversial because of charges that the process is harmful to the …

Fewer Americans are getting married than ever before, but that doesn’t mean couples aren’t cohabitating. If you’re thinking of shacking up or creating a domestic partnership, experts say it’s a good idea to consider entering into a cohabitation agreement.   Marriage Down, Cohab Up Over the last 50 years, marriage rates have steadily declined from a high in 1960 of 72 percent of adults in the United States, to a record low in 2010 of 51 percent, according to a …

When President Obama announced his support for gay marriage earlier this month, he was echoing a sentiment that more and more Americans have come to believe– that LGBT citizens have the same right to formalize their love in law as any other couple. More than just a symbolic gesture, marriage can grant partners important social and legal rights they might otherwise be excluded from. LGBT marriage can bring benefits for taxes, insurance, wills and more State laws vary on LGBT …

Traditionally, divorce-court judges determining custody usually rule that any pets in the household will follow the children. But what happens if there are no children? Increasingly, pets themselves are the subject of custodial disputes in divorce proceedings, according to Kenneth P. Altshuler, a Portland, Maine, divorce attorney who is the current president of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. In 2006, AAML conducted a survey of its members and found that they had seen a marked increase in pet custody cases …