My dad passed away three years ago this month. Fortunately, my mom is in excellent health and lives close to most of her family. Like many women of her generation, she was not involved in financial decision making as much as she probably...
It looks like I struck a nerve last week with my blog post on multi-level marketing (MLM) plans. I received several questions, including this one from Lynn in Flower Mound: “I bought into a MML plan last year. The company has been pushing...
Facebook—the means by which you update your Facebook friends (most of whom aren’t actually your friends) with your every random thought and the last picture you took on your smartphone, and share the link to the article you haven’t actually read. Most people...
A question from Cindy R. in Fort Worth: “I got a call that my daughter, who is a freshman at Trinity University, was injured in a car accident and taken to a hospital. As I raced down to San Antonio, I called the...
Have a question or topic that you would like The Law Mother to tackle in an upcoming blog post? Shoot her an e-mail at siobhan@lexmater.com. Disclaimer: This website is made available for educational purposes only as well as to give general information and...
Open up your Facebook feed and you will see how prevalent multi-level marketing (MLM) companies are among your friends and acquaintances. In a MLM plan, distributors sell products by word of mouth or direct sales and earn commissions for their sales and the...
A question from Nicole S. in Dallas: “I left my sleeping baby in the car for two minutes while I ran inside the school to pick up my fourth grader. It was a cool, overcast day and the school is in a safe...
Have a question or topic that you would like The Law Mother to tackle in an upcoming blog post? Shoot her an e-mail at siobhan@lexmater.com. Disclaimer: This website is made available for educational purposes only as well as to give general information and...
I am an unabashed dog person. Slobbery kisses, long walks in the park, endless games of throwing the tennis ball, I am all in. When my non-dog loving husband and I were dating he knew it was “love me, love my dog.” Dogs...
After I had my fourth child, I decided to leave my law firm position to stay home. While taking care of four kids is enough to keep a small staff busy, I missed the intellectual stimulation of being a working attorney. And the...
On the last day of school, my kindergartner’s teacher presented me with a folder in which she had carefully preserved in plastic sleeves the one or two best pieces of art or written work my daughter had made for each month of the...