NOTHING IS CERTAIN, EXCEPT DEATH AND TAXES Numerous polls have shown that over fifty percent of Americans do not have an estate plan, and have never drafted a will. Part of this shocking statistic is driven by a common misconception that if you are not in the infamous “one percent” of society, and you do not have lots of money to leave behind, then you do not need an estate plan. This could not be further from the truth. The reality is this: whether you are a millionaire or making a modest salary, healthy or sick, married or single, with

Lisa T. Scrantz, et al.versusMarvin L. Smith Landowners dispute right to cross over property This case involved a dispute between neighboring landowners, over the issue of whether one neighbor had a right to cross over the other neighbor’s land. The original landowners, not parties to this lawsuit, were a husband and wife who together owned a 119 acre parcel of land. They divorced, and the court split the land into three parcels, giving the wife a 19 acre parcel which contained the family home, and the husband two larger parcels on either side of her 19 acres, one 20 acre