Lee R. Schroeder
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Ashburn, VA, United States
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Legal-Ease: For verbal farm leases, the race is on
A majority of the farm leases for crop production in Ohio are still verbal (non-written) leases that are recognized as being “year-to-year.” In → Read More
Legal-Ease: How to legally handle the loss of a parent
The loss of anyone close to us is heartbreaking and devastating. We all grieve in different ways, but there is often an especially unique loss when the per → Read More
Legal-Ease: Scopes and durations of warranties
State law requires that every item sold actually be able to do what the item is designed to do, which is called “merchantability”. In other wor → Read More
Legal-Ease: Real estate escrow: taxes, insurance and PMI
Many people borrow money to make their home purchases. In that context, lenders sometimes set up “escrow” for real estate taxes, property insur → Read More
Legal-Ease: Trains blocking road crossings
The United States is blessed with an abundant network of railroads that feed our economy. Nevertheless, few of us enjoy waiting on trains to pass through o → Read More
Legal-Ease: Defensive driving principles in the law
Defensive driving encourages each vehicle driver to avoid accidents, even if the avoidable accident would be the other driver’s fault. The idea is th → Read More
Legal-Ease: Magically appearing and disappearing acreage
The real estate in our region was initially platted into one-mile squares that were to each contain approximately 640 acres, with each square being called → Read More
Legal-Ease: I bid too high on a house. Now what?
Finding a home in a better location, with a better layout, with more space or in better condition can be exciting. Unfortunately, however, some people agre → Read More
Legal-Ease: How small businesses actually get bought and sold
The buying and selling businesses is best described as a winding road of give and take.Notably, anyone selling a business may be subject to state and feder → Read More
Legal-Ease: Sometimes the law is simply unfair
Determining whether gifts of any size are legally problematic depends upon the context in which the gift is to be analyzed or considered.The law on gifts i → Read More
Legal-Ease: Sometimes the law is simply unfair
Sometimes the law is incredibly consistent, simple and easy to understand. Other times, especially in certain areas of the law, the law consists of multipl → Read More
Legal-Ease: Sharing our possessions with others
An amazing aspect of living where we do is that people are usually quite generous with each other.This generosity includes sharing our possessions. Growing → Read More
Legal-Ease: Ohio license plate laws
The Iowa Supreme Court recently ruled that a “ball hitch” — used to attach trailers to passenger vehicles — did not legally “ → Read More
Legal-Ease: When ‘anything and everything’ does not mean anything and everything
The law sometimes appears to contradict itself. Specifically, the words “anything and everything” do not always legally mean “anything an → Read More
Legal-Ease: Access to landlocked property
Ohio law does not prohibit landlocked — lacking access to a public road/street — property. However, many counties and municipalities have regul → Read More
Legal-Ease: Paradigm barriers to seamless business succession
Every business succession plan looks different, and various, unique aspects of every person involved and every business means that the who, what, how and w → Read More
Legal-Ease: Electronic monitoring of nursing home residents’ rooms
Although few of us visit our friends and family in nursing homes enough, we cannot visit nursing home residents around-the-clock, 24 hours a day, as we cou → Read More
Legal-Ease: Social media buy, sell, trade… need a license?
Before the internet and social media took over many aspects of business and interpersonal interaction, written publications were a primary method of formal → Read More
Legal-Ease: Nursing home planning: beyond just giving the house to the kids
Often, people’s most valuable asset is their home. Many people mark the day that they pay off their home mortgage with a celebration similar to that → Read More
Legal-Ease: I changed my name, do I need a new property deed?
Regardless of how the circumstance arises, some people own property that is titled in a name by which a person is no longer known.For instance, an engaged → Read More