Nichols and Retzner: Using a purpose trust in a business succession plan
The “purpose trust” should be in an estate planner’s “tool kit” and considered in a client’s business succession and charitable planning.
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McCarty: Tips for general practitioners: Estate planning for the unmarried
For those of you who don’t have an active estate planning practice, Indiana Code provides multiple safeguards for surviving spouses of an intestate decedent that are not provided to a surviving unmarried partner.
JLAP: In my ‘grief era’: Doing the ‘heart work’ of grief
It’s impossible for me to forget June 26, 2003, a day that marks more than a cruel summer.
IndyBar: The Racing Attorney Conference Heads to Austin, Texas in April!
The 2024 Racing Attorney Conference will be hosted April 9-10 at Circuit of Americas in Austin, Texas.
CASA Day celebrates volunteers at Statehouse
Court-appointed special advocates directors and volunteers from across the state traveled to the Indiana Statehouse on Tuesday to celebrate the second CASA Day since the COVID-19 pandemic.
IN justices agree to consider whether contempt defendants are entitled to mental health experts
The Indiana Supreme Court denied 12 transfer petitions and granted one for the week ending Feb. 23, agreeing to hear a case involving whether criminal contempt defendants are entitled to the appointment of mental health experts.
Summary judgment rulings affirmed, reversed in dispute over faulty neighborhood drainage system
A lawsuit stemming from property damages allegedly caused by a faulty drainage system will continue in part after the Court of Appeals of Indiana partially affirmed and reversed summary judgment awards to the different parties.
Indiana man gets 195-year sentence for 2021 killing of woman, young daughter, fiancé
A northern Indiana man convicted in the fatal 2021 shootings of a woman, her young daughter and her fiancé has been sentenced to 195 years in prison.
1 week remaining to submit Leadership in Law nominations
Only one week remains to submit your nominations for Indiana Lawyer’s 2024 Leadership in Law Awards.
Bill filed in Kentucky House would ease near-total abortion ban by adding rape and incest exceptions
Legislation aimed at easing Kentucky’s near-total abortion ban by creating limited exceptions for pregnancies caused by rape or incest was introduced Monday in the GOP-dominated House, as lawmakers wrangle with an issue at the forefront of last year’s campaign for governor.
Biden will urge congressional leaders to avoid a government shutdown, send aid to Ukraine and Israel
President Joe Biden was meeting Tuesday with the top four leaders of Congress to press them to act quickly to avoid a looming government shutdown early next month and to pass emergency aid for Ukraine and Israel.
House keeps retention mandate in literacy overhaul bill; makes tweaks to higher ed measures
A mandate to require reading-deficient third graders to be held back a year in school withstood challenges from Democrats on Monday — though some Republican lawmakers joined in opposing stricter retention.
Supreme Court casts doubt on GOP-led states’ efforts to regulate social media platforms
The Supreme Court cast doubt Monday on state laws that could affect how Facebook, TikTok, X, YouTube and other social media platforms regulate content posted by their users.
7th Circuit hears oral arguments regarding Indiana law prohibiting ‘human sexuality’ instruction in grades K-3
The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments Friday in a case involving an Indianapolis teacher who is seeking preliminary injunction against a new Indiana law that prohibits instruction on human sexuality in grades K-3.
IN Supreme Court reprimands attorney for failure to transmit form, money to federal immigration office
The Indiana Supreme Court has publicly reprimanded a South Bend attorney after she failed to ensure a waiver form for an immigration case successfully reached the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services’s office.
Trial court erred in reinstating declaratory judgment after it was dismissed, COA rules in reversal
An Elkhart-based company failed to act within the time permitted under Indiana Trial Rule 60(B) and was not entitled to a trial court’s reinstatement of a declaratory judgement action, the Court of Appeals of Indiana ruled Monday in a reversal.
Insurance company not required to cover costs of replacing furnace refractory, 7th Circuit affirms
An insurer wasn’t responsible for indemnifying a Kendallville-based company for the cost of replacing an aluminum furnace refractory destroyed in an explosion, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday in affirming a district court’s judgment .
IN Supreme Court suspends Portage attorney for failing to withdraw representation, engaging in misconduct
The Indiana Supreme Court has ordered a Portage attorney to serve a 45-day suspension after he was found to have committed six violations of the state’s Professional Conduct Rules.
Senate leaders likely to seek quick dismissal of Mayorkas impeachment case
For the third time in five years, senators will be sworn in as jurors for an impeachment trial. But the chamber is expected to spend far less time on the charges against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas than the ones brought against former President Donald Trump.