Some examples of everyday life events and circumstances in which it would be beneficial, and wise, to have an attorney on your side.

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1. You don’t have an up-to-date Will.
2. You don’t understand the difference between a Trust and a Will.
3. Family members challenge your parent’s Will.
4. You don’t understand your health insurance plan or the new Medicare Prescription Act.
5. The IRS selects you for an audit.
6. Your parents die and leave you executor of their estate.
7. You are tired of hidden fees at your bank.
8. You have a retirement savings plan.
9. You change jobs.
10. You receive a speeding ticket.
11. You are buying or selling your home.
12. Your driver’s license is suspended.
13. Your landlord raises rent in violation of your verbal agreement.
14. Your teenager is accused of shoplifting.
15. You decide to change your name.
16. Your new washing machine doesn’t wash.
17. Creditors threaten to take action against you for your ex-spouse’s debts.
18. A neighbor or school reports you for child abuse.
19. You adopt a child.
20. A friend or neighbor is injured on your property.
21. Your dog bites an elderly passerby.
22. A friend owes you money and files bankruptcy.
23. A stranger calls and demands money or damaging information will be released.
24. Your car is damaged by a hit-and-run driver.
25. You accidentally back over a neighbor’s garbage can.
26. A hairdresser damages your hair with harsh chemicals.
27. Your car is repossessed unjustly.
28. You are subpoenaed.
29. You are called to jury duty.
30. Your long drive off the tee injures another player.
31. You need a lease agreement reviewed.
32. Your son is injured in a football game.
33. A neighbor trips over a rake in your yard.
34. A jeweler sells you defective merchandise.
35. A car dealership gains illegal access to your credit history.
36. You are hit by a bottle at a baseball game.
37. A tenant falls down stairs and sues you.
38. Your dog is poisoned.
39. You are injured when you slip on a wet floor in a public building.
40. Your cattle trample a neighbor’s garden.
41. Your neighbor’s dog barks for hours every night.
42. Your teenager gets a speeding ticket.
43. Your landlord enters your apartment without permission.
44. Your child throws a baseball through a neighbor’s car window.
45. You don’t have a living will or medical power of attorney.
46. Your boat is damaged while in storage.
47. Your landlord refuses to refund your cleaning deposit.
48. You lose an expensive watch in a hotel and the manager denies liability.
49. A speeding car nicks your car bumper because you have parked in the street.
50. A merchant refuses to honor a guarantee.
51. You have an accident driving your friend’s boat.
52. Your spouse claims a right to your earnings.
53. A record club sends merchandise after you cancel your membership.
54. You are refused service at a restaurant.
55. A property manager refuses to rent to you.
56. You are denied credit for no apparent reason.
57. You are fired.
58. The auto repair shop threatens small claims court for money you don’t owe.
59. Your car insurance is cancelled when your teenager is involved in an accident.
60. Your child needs special education in public school.
61. You made a sizable gift to charity.
62. Angry words result in a slander law suit.
63. You need a patent for an invention.
64. You need a copyright for your manuscript.
65. You are wrongly accused of committing a crime.
66. Your right to privacy has been invaded.
67. Your car is vandalized in a parking lot.
68. A postal carrier slips on your unshoveled walk and breaks his or her leg.
69. You have a housekeeper in your home.
70. You are stopped for speeding and a friend is in possession of marijuana.
71. Your teenager wrecks the car and a friend is injured.
72. You care for your elderly parents.
73. You receive social security disability or Medicaid.
74. You are cheated by a door-to-door salesman.
75. A repairman charges more than a given estimate.
76. A creditor tries illegal collection tactics.
77. An accident results in a personal injury.
78. You are scheduled to appear in small claims court.
79. Your new house has bad plumbing and a leaky roof.
80. You take a vacation and your room with a view is a view of the trash dumpster.
81. A minor is caught breaking into your home.
82. You have a fender bender while driving a friend’s car.
83. You have liability questions in launching a new business.
84. A former employer refuses to pay you your final compensation.
85. Your neighbor’s dog bites your child.
86. You have a property line dispute over a newly installed fence.
87. You’re asked to testify as a witness to a robbery.
88. You need a premarital agreement.
89. You’re buying or selling a car.
90. Your child’s school demands a drug or alcohol test.
91. Your bank sends a foreclosure notice after one house payment is late.
92. A retail store won’t accept the return of defective merchandise.
93. A repairman won’t stand behind his work.
94. A trespasser is caught poaching on your land.
95. You are leasing acreage.
96. You receive a letter from a creditor and it is not your debt.
97. A bank turns you into a credit bureau unjustly.
98. You need advice concerning a divorce.
99. You own your own small business.
100. You can’t make heads or tails out of the new tax forms.
101. Your husband or wife uses physical force against you.

Well friends, 2009 is over and done, and a new year is here.  It’s really just another day like any other, but serves as a great landmark in time for us to step back, observe what has happened over the last year, learn from that, and determine how to make that better in the next year.

I believe you can make the most out of 2010 by starting with getting your mindset correct.  We can learn a lot from a familiar story in the Old Testament of the Bible.  The story of the promised land.  Read this passage from Deuteronomy 1:6-8:

⁶ The LORD our God said to us at Horeb, “You have stayed long enough at this mountain. ⁷ Break camp and advance into the hill country of the Amorites; go to all the neighboring peoples in the Arabah, in the mountains, in the western foothills, in the Negev and along the coast, to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great river, the Euphrates. ⁸ See, I have given you this land. Go in and take possession of the land that the LORD swore he would give to your fathers—to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob—and to their descendants after them.”

You see, God told them, “you have stayed here long enough…break camp and advance.”  We’ve been where we are at now for long enough.  God has given us the promised land, it’s just up to us to take a step of faith and make it happen.  But here’s another part of the deal, we need to act with some urgency, trusting God all along the way…the trip from where they started to the promised land was an 11 days trip, but took the Israelites 40 years to reach there.

When the 12 went to Canaan and came back reporting what they saw, 10 saw only the hardships, the negatives, the giants, imagining how hard it would be to overtake them (not counting on the power of God to provide their every need) and therefore determined there was no way they could enter the promised land.  The other 2 returned reporting the endless bounty, the positives, and how great everything there was.

The same goes for us today…do you see the positives or the negatives in life? Those 2 who came back reporting the good news were the ones that ended up prospering later on…and the so the same goes for you!

I think we can directly apply the story of David and Goliath to our lives.  Goliath was an incredibly large man; he didn’t even carry his own armor. And David: well, he was just a youngster and a shepherd.  They told David, “All you’ve got is a sling and a stone. You can’t kill Goliath.”  And David said, “He’s so big, I can’t miss him!”

You see, it comes down to our mentality and philosophies in life…The Law of Expectation: You get what you expect!

…Keep David’s mindset with you everywhere you go; when others are telling you there’s no way you can slay that giant, you say, “He’s so big, there’s no way I can miss!”

Have you been in a rut during the last year?  Now’s the time to start fresh and get out of it.  After all, you may have heard the phrase, “A rut is just a grave with the two ends kicked out.”

So, friends, you’re going to get exactly what you expect out of 2010, whether good or bad. Opportunities are endless, you can find them everywhere you go.  Here’s something I keep on my mind all the time now, “I wake up every morning with the certainty that something great will happen and the uncertainty of where it will come from.”

I’ve got a feeling that 2010 is going to be your year! That you’ll be happier than you’ve ever been, laughing harder, smiling wider, standing taller, walking lighter, living grander, and loving louder.

…And I’m here to help make that happen for you!

To Your Success,

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