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- Dennis Prince announces the opening of a boutique law firm. [The Nevada Post]
- A new law putting all elections (including municipal ones) in even numbered years will have an effect on term limits. [Las Vegas Sun]
- New drama with the NSHE Board of Regents. [Las Vegas Sun]
- Can anyone help out an 80-year old Vietnam veteran? A reader wrote saying he updated his will and healthcare directive with some software and now needs someone to witness and notarize it. In his words:
“All I need is two people to witness my signature on the Will and someone to notarize the Health Care Directive. I can find probably find someone to notarize the document, but not the witnesses and I want to do it all at one place. My wife and I spent all last week calling on Public and other Agencies who are supposed to deal with Senior Legal matters and other problems. These included AARP, The Las Vegas State Department Probate Division, the Las Vegas Senior Law Program and five or six other places that are listed in the “Worthless” 80 page Nevada Senior Guide. My Bank of America, where I’ve been doing business for 25 years, would not even do it.
Can anybody out there help an old Veteran? If so, Thank You.”
24/7 Mobile Notary. And get a couple of friends or neighbors to witness. They don't need to be specially trained or anything.
The article about AB50 did not mention judicial races. Does this mean we will have a 2021 off cycle election or will those seats be pushed? In district court, the judges are up in 2020 and 2026. Not clear on how the new law impacts judicial races in the municipal races as it seems pretty clear the terms could not be extended that far out.
Judges elected in 2015, 2017, or 2019 will all get seven year terms, being up for reelection in 2022, 2024, or 2026 respectively. So there won't be a 2021 judicial election – every seat that was up in that year will instead be up in 2022.
Wells Fargo does notarizations for free.
15 years ago when I worked there, they only notarized things for customers. And the request mentioned getting a notary together with witnesses, which is why I suggested a mobile notary. Don't try to grab witnesses and go to a notary, have the notary come to you while you and your witnesses are sitting in your kitchen.
They don't notarize documents they don't prepare, at least at the ones I've tried.
Good for Dennis, no doubt he'll do well. But the reason for his somewhat abrupt departure from the Eglet firm remains a mystery.
Yeah, it appears abrupt. But maybe it's just a rare circumstance of partners not leaking about friction and plans to break up before it happens.
A pretty successful rumor embargo so far. My usual sources have been quiet.
This Nevada Post site looks like it is just a marketing channel, so whatever happened, Dennis knew he had to get himself out there.
Eglet and Prince were the only trial attorneys in the firm. They intentionally failed to hire or train associates to be litigators. Prince was raking in a great deal of money, but he also had a tremendous amount of pressure. Undoubtedly the issue involved cutting up the pie. Many were surprised the partnership lasted this long because Prince almost walked out a few years ago.
Wouldn't most estate planning firms have a notary and two people that could be witnesses? Like Jeffrey Burr or something?
I would like to know how the Southern Nevada Senior Law Program was unhelpful. They should absolutely be able to help with something like this.
He can also just so a holographic will in a pinch in the meantime. And the POA needs no witnesses if it is notarized if I recall correctly. People often do both just because.
I second the Southern Nevada Senior Law Program. I'd also suggest he reaching out to the Nevada Attorney General's office "Office of Military Legal Assistance". We've done Wills, medical POAs, living wills, and POAs for active and retired service members through that program.
As an attorney, I would not provide a notary and witnesses for a Will that I did not prepare. The last thing I need is to be contacted 5-10 years from now by the Executor of an estate claiming malpractice in not reviewing the Will and finding the major deficiencies in it before someone in my office signed it.
Well, it's a damn good thing none of those activities (attesting you saw the testator sign the will, acknowledging the signature on the Directive, or taking the sworn statement of the witnesses) requires a review of the document. If a witness or notary insisted on reading a will, I'd throw him/her out of my office.
Yeah I didn't get that concern either.
Yes, but an off-the-street or friend witness doesn't have a $2M malpractice insurance policy as a target for a malpractice attorney when the executor tracks down that both of the witnesses who signed were at an address of an attorney who did estate planning during that time, then accuses the attorney of drafting the will on behalf of the decedent with a glaring mistake in it that caused a large asset (big house) to be divided among multiple beneficiaries instead of going to one specific beneficiary as intended, where the specific beneficiary was the executor and wanted her boyfriend's house, and was willing to spend money from dead boyfriend's life insurance to sue to get it. (btw, not a hypothetical – just a run-on sentence)
I've been hearing that DA Wolfson may make a run for district court.
Please God no. I would take Stefanie Miley over Wolfson.
There are rumors a few judges at the RJC may be stepping down. Perhaps he intends to file for one of those positions, if true.
Please let one of those be Israel!
Ginzalez, please.
Gin and Gonzalez.
I would like to know why Wolfson has not yet charged anyone on Budget Suites overdose of a 1 year old on fentanyl and heroin? Where was CPS?