When Do You Have to Pay Taxes on Your Babysitter?

October 17, 2018.Reading time 4 minutes.

This past year my quality of life significantly improved. Full-time housekeeper? Lottery? Kids doing their own laundry? None of the above. Drum roll please…my first born is old enough AND responsible enough to babysit her sisters. You read that right, I can just walk out of my house anytime, completely kid free. I can go […]

When Are Kids Too Old to Trick or Treat?

October 15, 2018.Reading time 1 minute.

Today’s post is a wee bit of law (in the form of a silly ordinance) and a whole lot of parenting. A Virginia town made news last week for having an ordinance making it illegal for kids 13 and older to trick or treat (defined as knocking on a door with the expectation of a […]

Is Scalping Illegal?

October 5, 2018.Reading time 2 minutes.

It’s Texas/OU Weekend in Dallas. The University of Texas Longhorns and the University of Oklahoma Sooners have been playing each other in football since 1900. Since 1914, the game has been played in Dallas, with the majority of the games at the Cotton Bowl in the State Fair of Texas. Whether you call it the Red […]

Tired of a job that requires working nights, weekends and holidays and being on call 24/7? Here’s what you can do.

October 3, 2018.Reading time 7 minutes.

It was a Friday evening in 2002 and I was flying home from a deal closing in Houston. And I hadn’t slept in 48 hours, which wasn’t all that unusual for me at the time. I was two years out of law school working for a “BigLaw” firm (lawyer slang for a large, full-service law firm). […]

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