Blog Posts
Mediation During COVID-19 and Beyond
July 27, 2020 By Kent Bevan The civil case has been filed and the trial date is next year, following written discovery and depositions. What effect will COVID-19 or “the virus” have on that trial setting? Jury trials were suspended starting in March 2020 in many...
An Estate Planning Check-up: The Short Version
July 24, 2020 By Joe Price Today, we will give you the tools to do your own estate planning check-up. We are deliberately calling it a check-up rather than an update because an update implies that everything was fine the last time you signed your documents; from that...
What If the Coronavirus Doesn’t Magically Disappear? Essential Planning During the Pandemic
July 9, 2020 By Joe Price By now, most of us are coming to the realization that the coronavirus is not going to skip over the Midwest. It may not hit us as hard in the Kansas City metropolitan areas because our leaders have been more sensible than most, but our day is...
Harold and Rose: The Problem with Joint Tenancy (and Procrastination in Estate Planning Matters)
July 8, 2020 By Joe Price In our business, it has become a cliché to talk about the dangers of procrastination. Usually, it comes up in the context of a client dying or becoming disabled before making an estate plan. However, one situation from my earlier days...
Title VII Prohibits Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation and Transgender Status
July 1, 2020 By Anne E. Baggott On June 15, the U.S. Supreme Court held in a 6-3 opinion in Bostock v. Clayton County, Case No. 17-1618, that an employer who fires an individual merely for being gay or transgender violates Title VII. The case has settled the...
Decision Time With Your PPP Loan: Eight or 24 Weeks?
June 17, 2020 By Joe Price If you have been keeping up with the Paycheck Protection Program or (PPP) you know that on June 3, the Paycheck Protection Program Flexibility Act of 2020 (PPPFA) made some significant changes to the program. In general, the changes have...
What’s Keeping You Sane? Our Readers Share With Us
June 15, 2020 By H. Joseph Price, Jr. After publishing my recent blog post, Lessons Learned from the Pandemic, a few readers reached out and asked us to find out what is keeping everyone sane during this time. So, we asked readers to share the activities they’ve been...
The New Paycheck Protection Program Flexibility Act Helps a Lot of Borrowers. But Does It Help You?
June 11, 2020 By Joe Price Note: A number of terms and concepts are not explained below because they were covered in a recent article, The Most Important Things to Do Before Your PPP Covered Period Is Over. Prior to June 5, borrowers of Paycheck Protection Program...
Important Changes Made to the Paycheck Protection Program
June 11, 2020 By Joe Price You may already be aware of this, but in case you have more interesting things going on in your life, let me announce that on June 5, President Trump signed a bill passed by the House on May 28 and by the Senate on June 3 – the sorely needed...
The Most Important Things to Do Before Your PPP Covered Period Is Over
June 2, 2020 By Joe Price Are you in the situation where your company is more than halfway through its eight-week Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan period (the covered period) and realize that you are probably not going to be able to spend the entire amount that...
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