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New NC Emergency Video Notary Law Opens Remote Legal Document Signing Window
A new statute added to North Carolina's omnibus COVID-19 pandemic legislation includes new provisions that temporarily allow remote notarization of legal documents until August 1, 2020. Before the new temporary law took effect, the NC notary statutes required notaries...
Return to Deliverance River (Chattooga Wild and Scenic National River, Whitewater Section IV, Georgia, United States)
Already thinking about going back again, I have been playing my own video of a recent trip a friend (Boater X) and I made to the Whitewater Chattooga Wild and Scenic National River in northern Georgia, where much of the 1972 Burt Reynolds whitewater disaster thriller...
This Too Shall Pass: How to Keep the Novel Coronavirus in Historical Perspective (Essay and WTOB Radio Interview)
(Medical Illustration of an AIDS Virus) Viruses, as a group, are 1.5 billion years old, predating humans (200,000 years old) by approximately 1,499,800,000 years. Humans live intertwined with viruses in a complex web of life. As one looks at tinier and tinier...
Why You Should Not Wait Too Long to Set Up an Asset Protection Trust in North Carolina (WTOB Radio Interview)
WTOB FM/AM Radio in Winston-Salem, NC interviews elder and special needs law, and estate planning attorney Vance Parker as he explains how an asset protection trust should be set up early in North Carolina, to better create a family "nest egg" of assets free from...
5 Inexpensive Ways to Reduce Accident Liability Risks on Your North Carolina Rural Property (WTOB Radio Interview)
WTOB FM/AM Radio in Winston-Salem, NC interviews elder, special needs, and estate planning attorney Vance Parker as he explains how it does not take much money to better protect your rural North Carolina real property from accident liability risks. For a...
Lords and Kings: A Brief History of Asset Protection in North Carolina
The basic right of a person to dispose of his or her possessions at death (testamentary transfer) originated in ancient times. The ability for the deceased to then protect the transfer of those possessions against claims by the State or government, or against other...
Why You Should Use a Trust to Pass Down Family Valuables in North Carolina
Photograph: Jaqueline Kennedy, First Lady and wife of the 35th President of the United States John F. Kennedy, arriving at Lincoln Center, New York City, September 23, 1962. WTOB FM/AM Radio in Winston-Salem, NC interviews elder, special needs, and estate planning...
Ropes, Knots, and Wisdom–A Father’s Day Tribute to My Dad
From my earliest memory, my family lived near the water, and as a young boy, I wanted to be just like my dad. How wise he was—how could he know so many things? We always had a small powerboat, and, from the time I was little, my dad was always teaching me how to use...
Why You May Need an Elder Law Financial Power of Attorney in North Carolina (WTOB Radio Interview Attached)
WTOB FM/AM Radio in Winston-Salem, NC interviews elder, special needs, and estate planning attorney Vance Parker as he explains how the new North Carolina Uniform Power of Attorney Act (enacted December 2018) may have made your existing financial power of attorney...