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The price of real estate, like almost all other parts of the economy, is increasing. Even professional real estate auctioneers and agents cannot know the exact sale price that a piece of property may bring.

Clients often ask attorneys in the context of estate planning, “What do other people do?” Providing examples can sometimes stifle creativity, but estate planning attorneys must both empower clients to make their own decisions and help clients plan something that clients do not work with every day.

Traditionally, becoming an auctioneer in Ohio was a lengthy process that included education requirements, a verbal examination and a time period of acting as an apprentice auctioneer under an already licensed auctioneer. That traditional process prepared auctioneers for the typical, out loud and in-person auctions that have traditionally been what we think of when we think of auctions.

Most people strenuously avoid moving into long-term care facilities like nursing homes. Unfortunately, a parent’s move to a nursing home could eventually cause misery for that parent’s adult children.

When disputes arise between people or businesses (parties) who have entered into contracts, the law’s primary goal is to determine the parties’ intentions in that contract and hold the parties to those intentions.

Last month, two men were convicted of participating in a conspiracy to kidnap the governor of Michigan.

Inflation and supply chain challenges have driven up the prices of everything from gas to food. Nevertheless, most of us adjust by reallocating our resources from our wants to our needs.

Blended families that include stepfamily members, half-siblings, estranged family members, former spouses, new spouses and everything in between are common in our society. Traditional, very simple estate planning may not be sufficient to accomplish estate planning goals in many blended family situations.

Some of the most important and universally useful documents that attorneys prepare are wills, trusts, powers of attorney and living wills. These documents are often called estate planning documents or advance directives (as for the powers of attorney and living wills).

A majority of the farm leases for crop production in Ohio are still verbal (non-written) leases that are recognized as being “year-to-year.” In other words, the landlord or tenant can terminate the existing verbal lease each year.