Divorcing Homeowners Have Mortgage Options to Consider Homeowners facing a divorce have a wide variety of difficult matters to sort through as they separate and start new lives. If the couple owns a home together, mortgage and possession issues must be resolved. The decisions made regarding a mortgage are crucial to long-term financial well-being. Even…
Most divorcing couples hope to wash their hands clean of any ties to the other party after the decree is finalized. Once assets and debts are split and child custody is arranged, generally people want to start over with a clean slate. Unfortunately, most couples don’t realize that both parties, despite an arrangement, are still…
With the health of kids in mind, the Congressional Committee on Oversight and Government Reform recently summoned William Weldon, the CEO of pharmaceutical colossus Johnson & Johnson, to testify about a massive recall of children’s medicines. The company, together with its manufacturing unit McNeil Consumer Healthcare, had removed more than 135 million units of child-strength…
Just five hours before she was brutally stabbed to death outside her apartment on Valentine’s Day, Tiana Notice had told police that her ex-boyfriend continued his harassment of her. Unfortunately, the system designed to protect domestic violence victims failed Notice. The last time her voice would be heard was in her 911 call, in which…
In a move to protect orphaned children, federal authorities are charging that Connecticut’s Department of Children and Families (DCF) with an insufficiency of foster homes and inadequate medical treatment for those in its care. On September 22, DCF began petitioning the U.S. District Court in Hartford for an end to the supervision under which the…
Eat your hearts out, humans. Earlier this year three Chihuahuas were left an $8.3 million mansion and a $3 million trust fund when heiress Gail Posner passed away in March 2010. These three aren’t the only pampered pooches out there. When Leona Hemsley died in 2007 she left $12 million to her beloved Maltese Trouble….