There are legal benefits in operating your business through a corporation or a limited liability company (hereinafter “LLC”). If you have a corporation or an LLC and you enter into contracts in your representative capacity, you are often not personally liable for that obligation. For example, if you sign your office lease “Jim Jones, Member, ABC Realty, LLC”, your LLC…
It is not uncommon to use e-mails and texts as casually as a regular conversation, however, once sent, those e-mails and texts could be saved in perpetuity. Under some circumstances, deleted e-mails could be revived by a computer forensic expert and the extra steps an employee takes to erase those e-mails may be revealed. New Hampshire is an employee at…
It is not uncommon to use e-mails and texts as casually as a regular conversation, however, once sent, those e-mails and texts could be saved in perpetuity. Under some circumstances, deleted e-mails could be revived by a computer forensic expert and the extra steps an employee takes to erase those e-mails may be revealed. New Hampshire is an employee at…
If you are divorced, had been married to that person for at least 10 years, and are not remarried, you may be able to collect on your former spouse’s earnings record as a divorced spouse, provided their monthly benefit payments are higher than what you would receive based upon your own earnings record. You must be at least 62 years…
If your spouse has passed away, you can still receive retirement benefits based upon your spouse’s earnings record as long as they would have been eligible to receive benefits themselves. If you are at least 60-years-old and unmarried, you can receive widow or widower’s benefits that amount to the full benefit your spouse would have received upon reaching their own…
When you reach retirement age, you may be eligible to collect retirement benefits through the Social Security Administration. Your benefits are based upon your earnings record, so how much you work and how much money you make throughout your life determines how much you will receive in retirement. In order to be eligible, you must have worked enough to earn…
While on occasion we hear in New Hampshire and Massachusetts news of a bookkeeper who has embezzled money from a company, many such embezzlements are resolved by private restitution agreements and therefore do you get to the public eye. Theft by employees does occur in the workplace and employers should take steps to curtail the opportunity for employees to steal. …
Under state and federal discrimination laws, employees cannot have adverse employment actions taken against them or be harassed due to certain protected classes such as race, disability, and age. However, merely because you fall within one of those protected classes it does not give you the ability to act unprofessionally and insubordinate. That reality was discussed in the March 26,…
When considering a new hire from a competitor, the company should learn what, if any, restrictions that potential new hire may have on employment. Those restrictions could be in the form of an agreement that contains provisions related to: confidentiality; non-solicitation of customers and employees; and a non-compete in the industry for a period of time in a geographical area.…
Parties in New Hampshire are free to negotiate the terms of their divorce, including how they wish to divide martial property. However, that agreement, standing alone, is unenforceable unless approved by the court. In the case of Estate of Mortner v. Thompson, the New Hampshire Supreme Court was presented with a situation where the husband and wife had negotiated a…