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By Rachel Puryear, Attorney at Law If you have a small business, there’s a good chance you’ve been having a very tough time lately. With necessary lockdowns in place for unknown periods of time, you may be wondering if your business will see the end of shelter-in-place. However, the good news is, there are a…
Read more Is Your Small Business Hurting? Here’s a Lifeline.
By Rachel Puryear, Attorney at Law First of all, I would like to give a huge thanks to the nonprofit advocacy group Student Debt Crisis (SDC). I highly recommend joining and supporting them if you are able. I attended a very informative webinar by them, where they explained and broke down the provisions of the…
Read more Here’s the Scoop on the CARES Act and Student Loans.
By Rachel Puryear, Attorney at Law If you are a “mom and pop” landlord, you may be anxiously wondering if you will ever get that rent check for April. Given the widespread job losses occurring due to the coronavirus, as well as moratoriums on evictions being implemented, hardship is unfortunately in store for a lot…
By Rachel Puryear If you are self-employed, and have lost income due to shelter-in-place orders, but are worried about not being eligible for unemployment benefits; the new federal stimulus package can offer you some relief. For the first time, a new program called Pandemic Unemployment Assistance provides unemployment benefits to those who are self-employed, and…
Read more Good News for the Self-Employed Who Need Unemployment Benefits
By Rachel Puryear, Attorney at Law Whether you are working the same, more, or fewer hours now than before shelter-in-place orders started being issued; you are likely wondering how much your household will receive in the upcoming stimulus/relief payments. The new emergency spending bill, signed into law just a couple of days ago, provides for…
By Rachel Puryear, Attorney at Law As we are all scrambling to adjust to life under quarantine, the current situation especially raises concerns for elderly persons. Those of us who take care of our elder relatives also likely have questions about how to continue to provide appropriate care at this time. Common legal problems for…
Read more Resources for Elders (and Those Who Care for Them) During Coronavirus
By Rachel Puryear, Attorney at Law If you have lost your source of income due to Shelter in Place orders, you are not alone. Following drastic efforts to slow the spread of the Covid-19/coronavirus; many who are not able to do their usual work (from home at least) are now faced with very real worries…
By Rachel Puryear, Attorney at Law If you have put time, money, and labor into a construction project, the last thing you want is to go unpaid for your efforts. You do not even want to have to spend more of your time and energy chasing someone down to pay you, for money you have…
By Rachel Puryear, Attorney at Law No one likes to think about what would happen to their children, if they and the other parent passed away prematurely. Hopefully, it will not happen to you. Nonetheless, it is much better to have a plan in place that you never end up needing, than to need such…
Read more Got Kids? Here’s a Tip to Protect Them, in Case Something Happens to You.
By Rachel Grainger Puryear, the Free Range Lawyer Welcome to part 2 of this post! The first post covered fair housing laws, and rent control and just cause eviction laws. This post will cover even more that small landlords should know – and again, this post may also be read as a guide to tenant…
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