There are small businesses that can be run strictly by the owner, especially when they don't have a brick and mortar store that has a lot of inventory. However, when a small business begins to grow, there sometimes becomes a need to hire employees to assist with keeping it running smoothly. The important thing to understand when it comes to hiring employees is that there is more to the process than you might be aware of.
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Chicken nuggets with large, sharp bits of bone in them, plastic wrapping in hamburgers, insect husks in your can of soup; these issues and more all happen on a regular basis because quality control issues with the companies that produce them do not do a good enough job at protecting consumers. If you have experienced something similar, or worse, a hospitalization or near-fatality as the result of a faulty or dangerous product, you should not sit idly by and accept the consequences.
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Alternative dispute resolution is a process used to address conflicts that have the potential to become civil court cases. The goal of using an alternative approach is to ensure that a matter does not become adjudicated unless the issues at hand prove to be extremely intractable. In fact, if ADR is a reasonable choice in a situation, a judge may push hard for both parties to consider it and proceed in good faith before humoring a civil case.
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Being told that your partner wants a divorce may come as a shock, even if you felt the marriage wasn't in the best of shape anyhow. It's important to understand what your rights are before you agree to anything. Let's take a look at what you need to know before you respond to a petition for divorce.
Was the Paperwork Handled Properly?
The process of divorce begins with the filing of a petition by one of the two spouses in a marriage.
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In most cases, a chapter 7 bankruptcy is a smooth and easy process that is over in a matter of a few months. Unless you run into problems, the average chapter 7 filing takes approximately 4-6 months from filing to final discharge. Unfortunately, problems can occur during the process that can lengthen that time estimate considerably. Read on to find out how adversarial actions during bankruptcy can cause delays.
What Are Adversarial Actions?
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