Know Your Legal Rights

If your application for Social Security Benefits or Supplemental Security Income was denied, you have the right to appeal through the hearing process.

People often believe that having a will alone avoids probate after death. This is simply not true.

Here are five easy steps to guide you through this difficult time.

Few will argue that the most important time to have a will is when you are parents of young children.

Ads for lawyers offer clients representation on a contingency basis. What is a “contingency fee,” and is it a good deal for the client?

In 2021, more than 5,000 cases landed in small claims court in Wisconsin, a special court where a plaintiff can seek money judgments against a defendant if the amount claimed is less than $10,000.

You have heard the campaign slogans in television commercials and read them so many times on billboards that the words have become cliché. “Drive sober or get pulled over!” “Buzzed driving is drunk driving.” “Over the limit. Under arrest.”

With the inflation rate soaring to a 40-year high, more Americans are falling behind on their debt payments because they cannot make the required payments on their credit cards, car loans, and/or home mortgage.

Filing for disability benefits is not an easy choice.  However, if you have health issues that are interfering with your ability to successfully work, sometimes this is one of the only options people have for income.

Your landlord refuses to fix a broken lock on your apartment door. He or she is not returning your calls. What should you do?