Carla S. Donnelly

Feb 16, 2024 | feeds.feedblitz.com | Victoria Pfefferle-Gillot |Carla S. Donnelly |Stephen McConnell |Dillon Smith

As millions of borrowers resume their student loan payments after the COVID-related pause on those payments ended in October 2023, many are seeing firsthand how the pandemic has affected loan servicers’ ability to efficiently manage and process these payments. Borrowers are experiencing hard-to-access customer support, unprecedented processing delays, and errors in billing.

Feb 15, 2024 | feeds.feedblitz.com | Taylor R.D. Briggs |Victoria Pfefferle-Gillot |Andrew Barron |Carla S. Donnelly

Preparing for your child’s wedding should be a joyful experience, so it should come as no surprise when a family business owner avoids bringing up a prenuptial agreement. Business owners and families of wealth should know that a properly structured trust can be a very effective alternative to a prenuptial agreement.

Feb 15, 2024 | feeds.feedblitz.com | Taylor R.D. Briggs |Victoria Pfefferle-Gillot |Andrew Barron |Carla S. Donnelly

Under federal law each individual has a lifetime federal estate and gift tax exemption (the E&T Exemption) and a generation skipping transfer tax exemption (the GST Exemption together with the E&T Exemption, the Individual Exemptions), which both increased to $13,610,000 in 2024 from $12,920,000 in 2023.

Feb 15, 2024 | law.com | Carla S. Donnelly

When I practiced family law in Georgia for 12 years, mediation or other forms of alternative dispute resolution were ordered in every case. Indeed, no judge would hear any nonemergency matter without litigants jumping through this required hoop. The courts scheduled multiple cases to be heard at the same time. While one case was being heard, the parties for the other cases were meeting with mediators.

Feb 15, 2024 | feeds.feedblitz.com | Taylor R.D. Briggs |Vasilios J. Kalogredis |Andrew Barron |Carla S. Donnelly

There are several ways that a beneficiary can challenge a health care plan’s denial of coverage for gender-affirming care. First, denials might run afoul of federal and state civil rights laws prohibiting workplace discrimination on the basis of sex. Second, ambiguous or vague denial criteria might be challenged under ERISA, where applicable.