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Debt Collectors’ Hidden Agenda

June 24th, 2010 by Diane Tiveron | No Comments | Filed in Debt Protection

In today’s economy, Americans have struggled to make a decent income or keep their jobs at all, a situation several Western New Yorkers can sympathize with. Despite this sympathy, there are an abundant amount of large corporations in the Buffalo area that seem to be profiting off the economic misfortunes of others and, surprisingly, the culprits are the debt collectors that promise to help us out of debt in the first place. Read on…

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Family Health Care Decisions Act

June 8th, 2010 by Linda Grear | No Comments | Filed in Estate Planning

In March of this year, Governor Paterson signed into law the Family Health Care Decisions Act (FHCDA). The law allows family members to make medical decisions, including decisions about withholding or ending life-sustaining treatment, on behalf of individuals who have lost their ability to make such decisions and have not prepared advance health care directives (such as a Health Care Proxy or Living Will). Read on…

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