The IRS has announced the Adoption Tax Credit for 2022. It will apply to any adoption finalizing (meaning when the Judgment of Adoption is entered) in calendar year 2022. The maximum credit is $14,890 per child. As in prior years, special needs (i.e. foster care) adoptions automatically get the full …

When you’re in a car accident, injured badly, and have a lot of medical bills, the biggest question you have is whether the other driver has enough insurance to cover everything. Maybe you, or even your attorney, asks the insurance company what the policy limits are – and they respond. They …

The wait is over: now we know that Social Security has officially changed its policies to remove exclusions for reissuing numbers for adopted children! Although we became aware of this potential change, no citation or legal authority was known. We now know that there is legal authority, and the new policies …

On behalf of Parker & Parker Attorneys at Law posted in nursing home neglect on Thursday, February 5, 2015. We’ve concluded a case for a total of $765,000.00 against a local nursing home. Our client was an 81-year-old very funny and wonderful woman who fractured her ankle and went to an area nursing home …

Some men in Illinois and elsewhere in the country simply can’t handle situations where their wife is the higher earner. However, this is an increasingly common fact of life. The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that nearly 40 percent of wives earn more than their husbands. While there are some …