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Older Texans are more likely to die in pedestrian accidents. The Death rate in Texas is significantly higher than the national average. According to the Victoria advocate:From 2002 to 2005, the Texas pedestrian fatality rate was 2.0 per 100,000, 17 percent higher than the national rate. Among older Texans, the per 100,000 rate was 2.7, 35 percent higher than the state rate, according to the...

The head of the Hilton clan, Barron Hilton, has decided to disinherit all of his grandchildren. He is particularly "embarrassed by how the Hilton name has been sullied by Paris." He has chosen, instead, to leave his fortune to the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation.

According to a new study in the Journal of American Psychiatry, the decreased use of SSRI prescriptions and the record increase of teen suicides from 2003 and 2004 may be linked.The number of SSRI prescriptions for pediatric depression (ages 5 to 18) tumbled more than 50 percent between 2003 and 2005. In a troubling parallel development, the number of teen suicides jumped a record 18 percent...

Proponents of tort-reform would have you believe the debate is about frivolous lawsuits. It's really about corporate responsibility and who, if anyone, will be held accountable when American consumers are defrauded, injured or killed as a result of someone else's negligence.Big businesses continue to finance a massive public relations effort lobbying legislators for more tort-reform measures....

Congratulations to Bruce Ure, Victorias new police chief. We look forward to working with him and wish him well at his new job. As we all know, it is important to have a top notch police force. It is also important that we, as citizens do our part to make their job easier. In that spirit, here are ten simple steps that you can take to protect yourself and make the investigating officer's job...

President Bush is once again pressing congress to make his tax reforms permanent. The Democratic Congress looks to be taking a guarded approach given the financial constraints of the federal budget especially considering the cost of the Iraq War and its inherent uncertainties.See, The Democrats' Cautious Tiptoe Around the President's Tax Cuts

Republicans have previously been unwilling to discuss any estate tax reform short of full repeal. With the Democratic takeover of the House and Senate, this may no longer be the case. Charles Rangel, the incoming Chair of the House Ways and Means committee has favored repeal for some time and may be inclined to sponsor legislation increasing the current estate tax exemption. See, Democratic...

The New York Times had an interesting article last week on the cost of Elder Care. Elder Care Costs Deplete Savings of a Generation. Not only are the rising costs of care for the elderly eating away at their savings, their children are also spending their own money as well. Advance planning is absolutely necessary to ensure that no one has to bankrupt themselves in order to care for loved...

It has long been the law in Texas that attorneys could not be sued for negligently advising and preparing wills. That may no longer be the case. The Texas Supreme Court in Belt v. Oppenheimer, Blend, Harrison & Tate, Inc. held that "there is no legal bar preventing an estate's personal representative from maintaining a legal malpractice claim on behalf of the estate against the decedent's...

In this strange case, former Playboy Playmate, Anna Nicole Smith, alleged that her stepson, E. Pierce Marshall, Jr. ("Pierce") had interfered with her inheritance rights. Having already lost her claim that her dead husband, J. Howard Marshall, II had promised to leave her half of his estimated $1.2 Billion estate, in probate court, Ms. Smith then pursued this claim against Pierce in U.S....

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