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Legal Forms Software

You may be a lawyer, or engaged in a profession where you are likely to be confronted with a baffling barrage of legal processes involving the filling out of forms as a part of your job. These processes may pertain to a variety of cases, like credits, accidents, financial transactions, rents, tariffs, declarations, wills, health, property, affidavits, partnerships, marriage and divorce, sales or purchase, insurance cases, police cases, drunken driving and more. The list can be endless. Filling out a plethora of Legal Forms may be tedious and time-consuming, leaving you yearning for an easy solution.

Legal Form Software comes as a welcome solution in such a situation. It can do all this time-consuming work for you in a matter of minutes. It facilitates the organization of the legal work and gives you precise information about the legal points, thus doing away with the need to consult law books or legal experts every time a doubt arises about the validity of the information you are about to file in a given form.

Good Legal Software is a huge reservoir of information, available at the click of a mouse. It also has the advantage of increasing your productivity. An important point that must be noted before going in for Legal Software is that it should contain high-quality content prepared by reputable professional lawyers and business processes experts. The legal and business forms in it should be properly formatted, with sufficient scope for editing as per your specific requirements.

Above all, it should be compatible with the software systems installed in your computer. It should work easily with most word processor programs. It should also be amenable to frequent updating to stay current with the day-to-day changes that take place due to the continuously evolving process of law and other business processes.

It should also be simple and easy to use. Complicated software is a great repellent. Good Legal Software saves you time, money and effort, and is a pleasure to operate.

Legal Forms provides detailed information about legal forms, business legal forms, divorce legal forms, free legal forms and more. Legal Forms is the sister site of Medical Power Of Attorney.

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Elder Care Business Owners Should Not Pay Referral Fees

A ruling, on the books since 1972, called the Safe Harbor Provisions states, in part, “the federal anti-kickback law’s main purpose is to protect patients and the federal health care programs from fraud and abuse by curtailing the corrupting influence of money on health care decisions”… it goes on to say, … “anyone who knowingly and willfully receives or pays anything of value to influence the referral of federal health care program business, including Medicare and Medicaid, can be held accountable for a felony. See http://oig.hhs.gov/fraud/docs/safeharborregulations/safefs.htm

Violations of the law are punishable by up to five years in prison, criminal fines up to $25,000, administrative civil money penalties up to $50,000, and exclusion from participation in federal health care programs.”

A referral service serves both the senior and the elder care service provider in this manner:

Service providers register with the referral service

A senior searching for a service is asked for their location

The referral company now emails, phones or faxes each service within the desired zip code to provide you with this referral. (You are provided the name, phone number and address of the senior)

You and your staff quickly respond - you know if you get there first, you have a higher chance of contracting with the senior

The senior now receives multiple sales calls from nice people who all say the same thing, “You should choose my company because we are the best”

You contract with the senior

The referral company now sends you a bill. The bill is normally based on the dollar amount you charge the senior.

(Example: An assisted living facility that charges $3,000 per month will typically owe the referral service a fee of $1,500. Their neighbor, the assisted living facility across the street charges $1,500 per month and will owe the same referral service a fee for $750.00 for the same client, same service)

Representatives of referral companies normally earn commissions. This can also pose a concern. If a family’s income depended on earning a high commission, the temptation may be there to direct a senior to a service that

a. Charges more

b. Where the staff has a history of ‘closing’ the sale.

If your business is searching for a legal method to connect with the senior market, see http://www.qualityeldercare.com Searching for a service? See http://www.seniorsapprove.com

Founder of Quality Care Options - the first and only company nationwide that offers a consumer-driven survey and certification process.

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Federal Prison Report

Recently the Federal Bureau of Prisons released an update of their prison population, which included breakdowns of race, sex, sentences and offenses. Currently, there are 189,984 inmates in the United States federal prison system. The breakdown of the information is at times typical and yet surprising other times. Did you know that the average age of a federal inmate is 38? Federal prisons, as you might know, are located all around the United States. The prisons are divided into minimum, low, medium and high (also known as maximum) security.

By far men are convicted of more crimes than women. Women account for just 6.7% of the entire federal prison population. They do make up 27.6% of the federal prison staff. The most common race of federal inmates is Black, followed by Hispanic (classified as white) and white non-Hispanic. Native Americans account for 1.8% of the population and Asians round out the list at 1.6%. There are currently 31,891 Mexican citizens serving time in the federal prison system.

The majority of inmates are locked up in low and medium security prisons. Only 10.3% of the federal inmate population is serving time in high security prisons. 18.7% are serving time in minimum-security locations. While the news routinely talks about how the government is soft on immigration, the stats provided by the Federal Bureau of Prisons show that at least some enforcement is happening. There are 18,886 (10.8%) inmates in the federal system doing time for immigration related offenses.

A strong majority of inmates are serving time for drug related offenses. Weapons, Explosives and Arson offenses are a distant second. Just over half of the entire federal inmate population is being incarcerated for drug related offenses. Most of those incarcerated are serving between 5 and 15 years. Only 3.1% of the population has a life sentence and a miniscule 38 have death sentences. 5-10 years is the most common sentence. Close to 30% of the inmates are serving a sentence of this length.

There are 3,657 sex offenders serving time in federal prisons. Countless others get out and renege on their obligations of release. Only 72.8% of those held in federal prisons are American citizens. Given all of this information, the average federal prison inmate is a minority male in his 30’s serving 5-15 years for a drug related offense.

Jason A. Martin is a journalist, copywriter and entrepreneur with over a decade of successful Internet business experience. His informational articles can be found around the world and at JasonAMartin.com.

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