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How to avoid (accidentally) getting into trouble or scammed on GoFundMe

In Personal Finance  •  by Siobhan Fitzpatrick Kratovil, October 4, 2019  •   Leave a Comment
Booze, smokes, and food for Austin’s homeless. This is the title of a GoFundMe campaign that recently popped up in my Facebook feed, an Austin man trying to improve the lives of his city’s homeless one beer, cigarette, and package of peanut butter crackers at a...
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3 easy ways for your children to help migrant children and their families

In Parenting  •  by Siobhan Fitzpatrick Kratovil, July 17, 2019

We’ve all heard the stories and seen the photos. Children in detention denied basic supplies like soap, a toothbrush, and blankets. Families living in squalid conditions in overcrowded detention centers. Our kids have too. And they have questions, lots of questions. How did...

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3 fast and easy ways you can help migrant families and children NOW

In Parenting  •  by Siobhan Fitzpatrick Kratovil, July 15, 2019

A father and toddler, drowned together, laying on the riverbank at our southern border. Families and children living in squalid, over crowded conditions, without access to clean water or adequate food. Unbathed children in dirty clothes. Toddlers without clean diapers. A humanitarian crisis at...

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What you need to know now about liability waivers and releases

In Parenting  •  by Siobhan Fitzpatrick Kratovil, June 24, 2019

What kind of activity carries this dire of a warning? THERE IS A REAL POSSIBILITY THAT YOU MAY DIE OR BE CATASTROPHICALLY INJURED.  Swimming with alligators? Bull riding school? Whitewater rafting in the DMZ? Nope, but those are all real activities. That’s the warning...

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Should Texans Tear Up Their Red Light Camera Tickets? Not Just Yet.

In Personal Finance  •  by Siobhan Fitzpatrick Kratovil, May 20, 2019

I wonder if you could hear Ding! Dong! The Witch is Dead in Austin last week. A bill to outlaw red light cameras was approved by Texas lawmakers on Friday. It’s now headed to Gov. Greg Abbott, who is expected to approve it. The bill...

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Top 5 Legal Issues You Need to Take Care of Now Before School is Out for the Summer

In Parenting  •  by Siobhan Fitzpatrick Kratovil, May 15, 2019

Four hours and six minutes. That’s how long it took one of my girls to start whining “I’m soooooo…. bored” after getting out of school on the last school day of the year. I will point out that during those four hours and...

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Bloggers and influencers: how to legally use other people’s photos and videos

In Business  •  by Siobhan Fitzpatrick Kratovil, May 7, 2019

Can you guess what for me is the hardest part about blogging? Coming up with interesting topics? Nope, people are always asking me for free legal advice and the good questions I turn into blog posts. Doing the legal research? Puh-lease. After three...

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Are school uniform policies requiring girls to wear skirts unconstitutional?

In Parenting  •  by Siobhan Fitzpatrick Kratovil, April 9, 2019

Is a school rule requiring girls to wear skirts unconstitutional sex discrimination? A federal judge in North Carolina thinks so. U.S. District Judge Malcolm Howard ruled last week that a charter school was engaging in unconstitutional sex discrimination by requiring girls to wear...

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Private school enrollment offers: should you accept before you have made a final decision?

In Parenting  •  by Siobhan Fitzpatrick Kratovil, March 27, 2019

My daughter has spent the last several months touring schools, filling out applications, writing essays, editing writing samples, and sitting through interview and interview. So what college is she going to? Who knows? This was all just for high school. Sometime in the...

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Dog bite liability 101

In Personal Finance  •  by Siobhan Fitzpatrick Kratovil, March 6, 2019

Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott has found himself in hot water recently after one of his dogs was seized after allegedly biting a neighbor. Dak is very fond of his dogs, who appear regularly on his Instagram profile. Like Dak, I’m dog person. Slobbery kisses,...

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