REGISTERING A WILL: Why Is It Important?

Because your will is one of the most significant papers in your life, it makes sense to safeguard it as much as possible. Registering your will with a registrar’s office, which can register your will and make it a public record, is one approach to ensure it survives you. While no state requires testators to […]

FIRST DEGREE MANSLAUGHTER: Charges and Sentences

Manslaughter is an illegal killing that does not require malice aforethought—intent to seriously damage or kill or an extreme, reckless disregard for life. Because there is no premeditated malice, manslaughter has less moral responsibility than first- or second-degree murder. (However, others contend that some cases of felony murder, a type of first-degree murder, include less […]