Pennsylvania business owners starting out on their venture likely have a few questions. You may wonder when you should start worrying about a business succession plan. The surprising answer is: you should consider your succession plan right away. This is true no...
If your business experienced a data breach, it is essential that you act quickly and efficiently to respond. Pennsylvania’s Breach of Personal Information Act of 2005 outlines a company’s responsibility to protect consumers’ information and to inform those affected in...
If you are like most people, then you probably finished your estate plan and then forgot about it. While some people make changes with every small life update, most do not focus on estate planning often enough. According to Forbes, if you do not change your estate...
Several decades ago, the American Land Title Association partnered with the American Congress of Surveying and Mapping to create what has been known in the industry as an ALTA-ACSM Land Title Survey. This is to put everything on one standard so that regardless of...
Growing and expanding a business in Pennsylvania comes with unique challenges that may result from a variety of external market factors. Changes made to governmental regulations, customer preferences and an increase in competitors may often affect a company's...
If you are a resident of Hazelton, Pennsylvania, and you are considering starting a business, then there is a lot to know about business law. Business law is a broad system of rules that touches on how you will form and run your enterprise. The laws touch on how you...
When you create an estate plan, you do not create it and then forget about it. If you want your loved ones taken care of and your wishes honored, you need to update your estate plan regularly, according to Forbes. When was the last time that you reviewed your...
Creating a new business involves many aspects that require careful thought and consideration, including coming up with a name for the business. Pennsylvania law places a number of requirements on how to name a business. In some cases, the law forbids a business from...
As complicated as our financial lives are in the modern era, it is no surprise that estate planning is becoming more and more of a necessity. However, it is not just for financial reasons that you need to be considering estate planning in Pennsylvania. People are...
Pennsylvania residents and business people with significant commercial property holdings understandably want to strategically identify the best path to maximizing their return from and minimizing unnecessary tax burdens on their investments. For many years, the 1031...