Author: Brette Sember
Brette Sember is a former attorney and author of more than 40 books, including The Divorce Organizer & Planner, The Complete Divorce, How to Parent with Your Ex, The Essential Supervisor’s Handbook, The Complete Credit Repair Kit, The Original Muffin Tin Cookbook, and The Gluten-Free Guide to Travel. She writes often about law, parenting, food, travel, health, and more. She blogs at PuttingItAllOnTheTable.com.
If you or your employees travel a lot for business, you’ve probably heard about government programs that will get you through customs or security faster. However, the programs have some overlap and some strange gaps, so it’s important to understand exactly what they offer and how they can benefit your business, and not waste time or money applying for programs that won’t meet your needs.
If you itemize deductions on your federal income tax, you’re probably aware that you can write off some of the expenses of using your car (1) to conduct business, (2) to move or to take care of medical needs, and (3) to do charitable work. But if you’re filing on the late side this year, you might be in for a surprise; two of the three deductible mileage rates for 2016 have declined.
If you run a business from your home (whether it is part-time or full-time), you can qualify for some nice tax deductions—provided your business really does actually run from your home.
As the prospect of a Trump presidential nomination becomes increasingly tangible, the volume from Senator Rubio—and others—around the University case has become noticeably louder. Should you listen?
Clearly, Cruz believes this will help his brand and appeal to his base, but there may be serious health implications—and impacts to military effectiveness—were his position ever to become reality.
If you’ve ever tried to fill a prescription for birth control yourself, you know exactly how frustrating, inconvenient, and ridiculous it can be. Happily, women in California and Oregon no longer have to play this game to get contraception.
There’s good news and bad. The good: federal laws provide some protections for children younger than 13. The bad news: these safeguards probably don’t do what you were hoping for.
Even if you knew Dad or Grandpa had a gun, once you end up with possession of it, you might be stumped about what to do with it—whether you want to keep it or not.
If you exercise some common sense and do a little legal research around baby-naming laws in your state, that creative name you come up with for your newborn might just stick.
The Material Girl made her name through rebellion—and now the shoe is on the other foot, with her son Rocco rebelling against her. As Madonna engages in a custody battle with ex-husband Guy Ritchie, Rocco is making it abundantly clear he wants to live with his dad.