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Top Summer Accidents

May 10, 2022 By Staff - s.r. Leave a Comment

Summer Accidents

Summer is approaching and despite soaring gas prices, it is expected that folks will still be taking those summer road trips. This means more cars on the road which naturally means more accidents. At Springer & Lyle, we want to warn you about other accident risks related to summer vacations. Some of the top summer accidents in Denton County include: Water-related accidents including drowning. Summer weather draws people to the water. More people out with boats means more boating accidents. More people swimming in open water or in backyard swimming pools leads to more drownings or … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Injuries, Summer Accidents

Common Law Marriage in Texas  

May 2, 2022 By Staff - s.r. Leave a Comment

Common Law Marriage Texas

Texas is one of a handful of states that recognizes a common law, or informal, marriage. If a person can prove to a court that the couple had a common law marriage, then they will have the same benefits as those who had a marriage ceremony and obtained a legal marriage license. If the couple separates, the court cannot make any orders regarding property division, child custody, child support, or spousal support unless the court first rules that there was a common law marriage. However, they choose to prove the marriage, both parties must be at least 18 years old. Filing a Declaration of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Common Law Marriage, Texas Law

Who Pays Your Medical Bills After an Accident? 

April 25, 2022 By Staff - s.r. Leave a Comment

Medical Bills after accident

If you were injured in any kind of accident, whether a car accident or a slip-and-fall incident, you likely are accruing medical bills and wonder how you will ever pay them. Your healthcare providers may be nagging you for payment. At Springer & Lyle, we are committed to helping you solve this problem. How to Get Your Medical Bills Paid After an Accident If you were injured in a car accident and the other driver was at fault, the driver or his insurance company will likely pay, or reimburse you, for medical expenses. However, the liability insurance company will not pay a penny until … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Accidents, Injured, Medical Bills

Co-parenting Tips for Summer Vacation  

April 18, 2022 By Staff - s.r. Leave a Comment

Co-Parenting Tips for Summer

Summer vacation is coming, and children will be out of school. Teenagers may have summer jobs. Younger children will need supervision and things to do. There may be soccer practice and other activities that the minors are involved with. This creates some issues for divorced parents who are co-parenting. Parents may struggle with balancing the interests of the children with their own. One parent may plan a vacation at a time the other parent was hoping to spend quality at-home time with the children. It can get testy between the parents if they put their own needs before the needs of the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Co-Parenting, Planning, Summer Vacation

Will My Personal Injury Case Go to Trial? 

April 12, 2022 By Staff - s.r. Leave a Comment

Personal Injury Case

If you were injured in an accident and have a pending personal injury case, you are quite curious about whether your case will actually go to trial. Recent statistics show that approximately 95 percent of personal injury cases settle out of court. That means only about 5 percent find their way to the courtroom. There are reasons why some cases settle, and why others require proving the case in court. Most Common Reasons for a Case to Settle Before Trial There are good reasons for a case to settle without going to trial. The most common ones are: The defense attorney believes that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Case, Personal Injury, Trial

When Do I Have to Probate a Will in Texas? 

April 8, 2022 By Staff - s.r. Leave a Comment

Probate a will in Texas

When someone dies, probate is the process by which a court oversees the distribution of that person’s assets according to the terms of their will. There are some assets that pass to heirs outside of probate. Many surviving spouses do not realize that probate is necessary to transfer property purchased by the couple prior to one’s passing. When Do I Have to Probate a Will in Texas? Texas Estates Code requires the personal representative, or executor of the estate of the decedent to submit the will to the probate court within four years of the death of the decedent. If the representative … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Probate, Texas, Wills

Most Common Reasons People Get a Divorce

March 28, 2022 By Staff - s.r. Leave a Comment

Reasons for divorce

No couple gets married with the expectation of getting divorced. Things change over the weeks, months, and years that they are together. In the U.S., more than 50 percent of first marriages end in divorce. More than 60 percent of second marriages end in divorce, and 73 percent of third marriages end up in divorce court. Texas Allows for a No-Fault Divorce Texas ranks 15th among the 50 states for divorces. Texas provides for a no-fault divorce. This means that when one spouse files for divorce, the reason for the divorce is generally “insupportability.” That means the spouse does not … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Divorce, Reasons, Texas

The Importance of an Event Data Recorder in a Personal Injury Case  

March 21, 2022 By Staff - s.r. Leave a Comment

Event Data Record and Personal Injury

Event Data Recorders (EDR) are devices installed in motor vehicles that capture the functioning of the vehicle and action of the occupants in the moments just before, during, and after a crash if the crash is severe enough to release the airbags, or there is an excessive rate of deceleration. According to the Automobile Association of America (AAA), 95 percent of cars currently on the road have an EDR installed. At Springer & Lyle, we can use the EDR information to help prove fault in a personal injury case. Information Captured by the EDR Although the data captured by the EDR is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: EDR, Event Data Recorder, Personal Injury

My Parent Didn’t Have a Will: What Should I Do? 

March 14, 2022 By Staff - s.r. Leave a Comment

Texas Wills and Probate

If someone dies intestate, that means they died without leaving a will. When that happens in Texas, the law is clear about what happens next. If your parent dies intestate, what happens to the estate will depend on whether your other parent is still alive and was married to your deceased parent at the time of the death. Petition the Probate Court to be the Executor You, another family member, or a person your parent trusted may petition the court and ask to be appointed executor of the estate. The court will then send notices to parties it believes may be interested to give them a chance … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Executor, Probate Court, Texas Laws, Wills

Proving the Other Driver Was Texting in an Accident  

March 2, 2022 By Staff - s.r. Leave a Comment

Texting and Driving

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) estimates that at any given moment, 600,000 drivers are using their cell phones. More than 400 drivers are killed every year when texting and thousands more are injured. At Springer & Lyle, we stand ready to do the necessary investigation to determine if a texting driver caused your accident. How to Prove the Other Driver was Texting Texting and driving have the same effect on driving as if the driver had drunk four beers in one hour! The U.S. Department of Transportation reports that it takes five seconds to read a text, the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Articles, Featured Tagged With: Accidents, Texting

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Articles of Interest

Honda Worldwide Recall of Sedans, Minivans, SUVs

By Deepa Seetharaman and Bernie Woodall of Reuters. Honda Motor Co Ltd plans to recall nearly 2 1/2 million vehicles: small SUVs, cars and minivans worldwide. This includes the popular Accord sedan. … [Read More…]

Hip Implant Complaints Increase, While Dangers Are Reviewed

By BARRY MEIER and JANET ROBERTS of the New York Times Published: August 22, 2011 The federal government has received a surge in complaints in recent months about failed hip replacements, suggesting … [Read More…]

Tragedy Brought on by Tainted Fruit

By Moni Basu, CNN William Beach was one of those people who fixated on certain foods. He would eat the same thing voraciously for a few days, and then, when he tired of the same tastes, he moved onto … [Read More…]

No Better Care, Thanks to Tort Reform

Published in The Texas Tribune by guest columnist, Charles M. Silver In 2006, Dr. Howard Marcus wrote that Texas’ 2003 tort reform statute sparked an “amazing turnaround” in which doctors came … [Read More…]

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