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	<title>Law Offices of Robert J. Ross</title>
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	<description>Practicing in Estate Planning, Estate Administration, Business &#038; Commercial Law since 1986.</description>
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		<title>Business Entities Video</title>
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Attorney Bob Ross discusses business entity basics, including Sole Proprietorships, Corporations and Limited Liability Companies (LLC), and some issues to watch for those starting businesses or business partnerships.
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		<link>http://www.robertjross.com/2012/01/09/business-entities-video/</link>
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		<title>Organize Your Estate Planning Documents</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If, like so many, you are prone to disorder in the keeping of important documents, assuming that you keep them at all, you may be well past due for a makeover of your estate plan and your end-of-life instructions. It is not just a matter of maintaining tidiness for its own sake: a lot of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robertjross.com/2012/01/05/organize-your-estate-planning-documents/</link>
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		<title>The IRS is Here to Help</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To help struggling taxpayers who owe back taxes, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently unveiled a series of new steps to help people get a &#8220;fresh start,&#8221; to use the phrase invoked by the IRS Commissioner, with their tax liabilities. The general idea is to recognize the challenging economic environment the country faces while also [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robertjross.com/2012/01/05/the-irs-is-here-to-help/</link>
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		<title>Yet Another Hazard on the Golf Course</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hazards to a golfer&#8217;s health and safety that come most readily to mind involve swinging clubs and golf balls in flight, usually on unintended flight paths. But the sport also has other dangers lurking, including the garden variety slip and fall. When James, a golfer, sued a golf resort recently over such a mishap, his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robertjross.com/2012/01/05/yet-another-hazard-on-the-golf-course/</link>
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		<title>Hiring A Lawyer? Important questions and considerations.</title>
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This video considers some of the reasons for hiring a lawyer and discusses some ways to evaluate lawyers that you interview. 
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		<link>http://www.robertjross.com/2011/11/07/hiring-a-lawyer-important-questions-and-considerations/</link>
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		<title>Employees Win Benefit Protections</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A major health services company with thousands of employees overhauled its pension plan some years ago. As it explained to the employees at the time, their
then-existing benefits would all be converted into a hypothetical lump sum, which would constitute the opening account balance for the new plan. That amount
would then grow by a percentage of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robertjross.com/2011/10/19/employees-win-benefit-protections/</link>
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		<title>Financially Speaking, Keep It Simple</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In theory, we are all in favor of saving time, labor, and space, not to mention avoiding the stress and anxiety that can come from leading complicated and
disorganized lives. In the realm of personal finance, these are all good reasons to resolve to become more simplified and organized, but saying and doing are
two different things. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robertjross.com/2011/10/19/financially-speaking-keep-it-simple/</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Lose Your Charitable Deduction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For you to claim a federal income tax deduction for a charitable donation valued at $250 or more, you must obtain from the recipient of the donation a
&#8220;contemporaneous written acknowledgment&#8221; letter. Failure to obtain such a letter can result in a disallowance of the deduction by the IRS.
The acknowledgment letter, which may be in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robertjross.com/2011/10/19/dont-lose-your-charitable-deduction/</link>
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		<title>Estate Planning With ILITS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For some people, life insurance may not spring to mind immediately as an effective estate planning tool. A life insurance policy remaining in the estate of the
insured is subject to federal estate taxes. However, when carefully crafted and put in place with the guidance of an appropriate professional, there is a way both
to obtain the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robertjross.com/2011/10/19/estate-planning-with-ilits/</link>
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		<title>Chalk One Up For The Little Guy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nate Thoma is not a lawyer, but he is a soft-spoken, yet confident, small investor in Washington Mutual, the big bank that was seized by the federal government
in 2008 and ended up in bankruptcy. As for so many other investors, Nate&#8217;s stake in the bank was wiped out. Nate became something of a folk hero [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robertjross.com/2011/10/19/chalk-one-up-for-the-little-guy/</link>
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