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Byline: Eric T. Berkman An agreement to settle a partition proceeding was sufficient to sever a joint tenancy, the Supreme Judicial Court has held. Anthony Cirone and defendant Jane Furnas [...]

In the unfortunate event that a worker dies as a result of an injury or condition at or related to work, a person will be entitled to make a WorkCover [...]

Byline: Alex Horton - - - Correction: A previous version of this article misstated the life insurance payout provided to servicemembers who die while on duty. As of March 1, [...]

Byline: ROB CARRICK; Staff To keep benefits flowing to current and future recipients, the Canada Pension Plan has to cheap out in certain areas. A prominent example in these inflationary [...]

Losing a loved one in a motor vehicle accident can be an incredibly difficult and traumatic time. In addition to the grief and loss of losing a loved one, there [...]

In this edition of 'It depends', partner Scott Hay-Bartlem talks about the 'how-to' of death benefits in SMSFs. Scott, along with Clinton Jackson and Hayley Mitchell, will be presenting on [...]

Byline: Meagan Flynn WASHINGTON - Inspired by the mental health toll that the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot took on first responders, the U.S. Senate passed a bill Monday night [...]

Challenging a policy that limited survivor's benefits to married couples, even though some couples were legally barred from marriage, took years. Helen Thornton and Margery Brown began dating in 1979. [...]

Benjamin Franklin famously said that in this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes. Trustees of pension schemes and death in service trusts frequently find themselves dealing with both [...]

Even after winning the right to marry across the U.S. more than six years ago, some same-sex couples have faced challenges obtaining certain benefits. Surviving members of same-sex couples who [...]

Spouses often take title to a property as joint tenants rather than tenants in common due to the 'right of survivorship,' by which the surviving spouse assumes sole title to [...]

Byline: David Donovan A land dispute between a Charleston County man and his late domestic partner's daughter presented a fact pattern fit for a property law exam questionreal "who ownsBlackacre?" [...]

Byline: Eric T. Berkman A federal judge has ruled that the widow of a man who died 14 months after his last day of work is entitled to death benefits [...]

PART 2: Resolving Disputes: What can you do if you have a claim or disagree with the death benefit distribution? Introduction In Part One of this series Yue Lucy Han [...]