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A funeral bill is a stack of separate purchases, and only one of them is non-declinable. Here is how to read the list the way someone who signs it monthly reads it.
Continue reading Arranging a Funeral This Week? Which Line Items Are Fixed and Which Are Choices
Published completion and placement rates are averages over a denominator somebody else defined. Four people adjacent to the decision can tell you what the number leaves out.
Two lawyers can quote the same contingency percentage and hand you checks that differ by thousands, because the number they multiply is not the same number.
Continue reading Quoted a Third of Your Case? What That Third Is Actually Measured Against
Contingency fees sound standard until you read what the percentage is multiplied by. Gross or net, costs before or after, and how the rule changes by state.
Continue reading Is the Fee a Third of the Check or a Third of What's Left? The Line That Decides
A cremation bill is several separate purchases stacked into one total, and the rules on which ones you can decline have shifted in the family's favor.
A first consultation on an abuse claim is usually free, but the preparation still costs you something. Here is what to assemble, what it takes, and what drives the money later.
Continue reading Before You Call About an Abuse Claim, Two Evenings of Prep Change the First Meeting