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News & Analysis
Latest legal news and recent law changes.

News & Analysis

Burton Law Firm analyzes recent legal news and emerging trends

Duty to Indemnify Employees: Consequence not Cause

California has required employers to “indemnify” employees for “necessary expenditures or losses incurred by the employee in direct consequence of the discharge of his or her duties, or of his or her obedience to the directions of the employer” in substantially the same terms since 1937 under Labor Code § 2802.

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California’s War on INGs

We live in an age of unparalleled mobility in a world of many differing taxes and taxation structures. Yet permanently changing one’s residence is not a decision lightly made.

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A Will without a Witness

Normally, a typed (nonholographic) will must be signed by at least two persons who witnessed the testator’s signature of the will or the testator’s acknowledgment of the document as the testator’s will.

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Supplementing the Meaning of “Special Needs”

A supplemental (or special) needs trust is a means to assist a beneficiary with a disability while preserving the beneficiary’s eligibility for public benefits. As of now there is “little legal interpretation of and commentary on special needs trusts.”

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A Tale of Two Words

The California Supreme Court granted a broad interpretation to the term, “disclose” as it is used in Labor Code § 1102.5, California’s general whistleblower statute.

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