Part of your estate plan is having a plan for your medical care in your final days. The way that you do this is by setting up an advanced medical directive and a power of attorney for health care. Together, these provide you with a plan for what is going to happen if...
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Personally investing in each client’s legal
objectives and achieving those goals together.
Photo of Exterior of the Office Building of Steele Law Offices, LLC
Month: December 2017
Pets are more like furry children under new law
Pet lovers in Illinois have a reason to rejoice. As of the first of 2018, pets will be viewed more like children instead of like property when a couple who has a furbaby goes through a divorce. Up until then, the family dog, cat or other pet was treated in the same...
Divorce rates skyrocket after the holidays
It appears that even couples who want to split up are willing to gut it out through the holidays. No one wants to spend Christmas in a courtroom, negotiating about who gets to spend time with the kids. Divorce increases dramatically after the holiday season ends, with...
A spinal cord injury isn’t a single event
Most people who think about a spinal cord injury believe that the injury is caused by one single incident. While it is true that the initial trauma is likely caused by that one event, damage to the spinal cord is caused by a series of events. In order to understand...
Make a plan if you can’t make your credit card payments
There are many different things to think about when you have credit card bills coming in. One of the priorities that you have likely set for each month is making at least the minimum monthly payment. Failing to make the payments is something that can have dire...
3 killed, 12 injured in tragic 8-car accident
A horrific accident involving eight vehicles led to 12 people with injuries and three deaths south of Hamel, Illinois. The crash occurred on I-55, at about 6:15 p.m. on a recent Tuesday. A tractor-trailer crashed into the other vehicles while traveling 60 mph. Some of...
