Allen & Spence Blog
What is Medicaid?
What is Medicaid? Medicaid is a health insurance program for low-income individuals and families who cannot afford health care costs. Medicaid serves low-income parents, children, seniors, and people with disabilities. You may be eligible for Medicaid if you are age...
What is Estate Planning?
What is Estate Planning? Estate planning is the process of evaluating your goals and concerns related to the transfer of your assets upon death and, in come cases, during your lifetime. Estate planning can include professional advisors such as lawyers,...
Who Makes Health Care Decisions?
North Carolina law provides that it is a person’s fundamental right to make his or her own health care decisions. what happens when a person is not able to make or communicate a health care decision? Imagine a person in a hospital who is...
Divorce Basics in North Carolina
What is a divorce? Some people think that divorce means everything… custody, child support, alimony, etc. It doesn’t. It is a status change from being married to being single again. Marriage is a status change from being single to being married. The statute: The...
NC Collaborative Law Statute
North Carolina may be on the cusp of having a new collaborative law statute. You can read the bill here. The bill provides for things like tolling the statutes of limitation and also staying actions in a pending case if the parties follow certain rules. That is...
Arbitration Versus Court in Family Law Cases
Arbitration Versus Court: Which is Better? When settlement fails the parties need someone else to make a decision in their dispute. There are really only two choices: litigation or arbitration. If you are unable to resolve your custody, child support, alimony and...
