In Arizona, legal decision-making is a parent’s legal right and responsibility to make nonemergency legal decisions for a child including those regarding education, health care, religious training and personal care decisions. The court has the discretion to award joint legal decision-making to both parents, grant one parent with legal decision-making, or a mix thereof. In […]

  At the end of 2017, the President signed a massive tax reform bill, formally known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. The new law is more than 500 pages long and for the most part, will not affect the 2017 taxes you should file by April 15, 2018. Although there are varying opinions […]

Earlier this year, the Trump administration began rolling back policies that were implemented during the Obama administration. Some of these policies benefitted the employee who at one time, was being paid by two employers. Recently, Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta rescinded the Obama-era definition of what is considered a “joint employee”. A ‘joint employee” is an […]

In 2015, 6.3 million motor vehicle accidents were reported to law enforcement officers.[1] As a result of those accidents, over 2.44 million people suffered some kind of injury. Even more concerning is the fact that 35,902 people died as a result of a car accident, a 7 increase from 2014. Whether the accident is a […]

Before 2011, if a homeowner and a Condominium Homeowners Associations or Planned Community Associations (together known as HOA) was involved in a dispute, the only avenue to resolve the dispute was through the civil court system. In 2011, Arizona lawmakers passed legislation that established alternative proceedings through the Arizona Department of Fire, Building, and Life […]