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• REAL ESTATE ROUNDUP
• BUSINESS LOANS CANNOT REDUCE ESTATE TAXES
• AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT AMENDMENTS
• E-MAILED DOCUMENTS ALLOWED
• CREDIT CARD ACT
• CAR DEALERS CLASH WITH WEBSITE

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Consumer Protection

09.01.10 3:54PM
'Unsuccessful allottee not a consumer'
Unsuccessful allottees cannot claim any relief from consumer fora as they are not 'consumer' under the Consumer Protection Act, the National Consumer Commission has held.

09.01.10 9:26AM
How Consumer Protection Regulations affect price information: OFT consults
Retailers may have to include their delivery charges in the headline offer price of goods under plans put forward by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) on Friday. It has published draft guidance on how it plans to regulate the advertising of prices.

09.01.10 5:12PM
U.S. Consumer Bankruptcies Fall 8 Percent in August
U.S. consumer bankruptcy filings fell 8 percent to 127,028 in August from the previous month, the American Bankruptcy Institute reported.

Retirement Planning

09.01.10 3:12AM
Retirement: Is America prepared to retire?
64 percent of Americans have no financial strategy at all. That’s right — no plan whatsoever to build wealth or keep it. That finding comes from the 2009 National Consumer Survey on Personal Finance conducted by the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc. (The survey collected data from 1,700+ U.S. residents.)

09.01.10 11:08PM
Home sweet Bajan home?
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair may be planning to follow in the footsteps of another British leader who bought a home in Barbados as a retirement property.

09.01.10 2:27PM
DSC Army ROTC to perform flag retirement ceremony
ST. GEORGE — The Dixie State College Army ROTC will perform a formal flag retirement ceremony on Sept. 10 at 5 p.m., at the DSC Administration Building and the Encampment Mall on campus. All DSC students, faculty and staff, alumni and the community are invited to attend.

Estate Planning

12.31.69 6:00PM
The Drug Dealer and the Real Estate Men
Cocaine and real estate often go together in San Diego, especially along the dusty strip of border land known as Otay Mesa. Some of the district's biggest land deals were financed by drug money.

12.31.69 6:00PM
Estate planner testifies Frank McCourt 'wanted me to talk sense' into Jamie McCourt
Frank McCourt said Jamie McCourt "was lacking rationality," said Leah Bishop on the second day of testimony. "He said: 'She thinks she can run the team. That's a total disconnect,'" Bishop said. Frank McCourt said Jamie McCourt "was lacking rationality," said Leah Bishop on the second day of testimony.

12.31.69 6:00PM
Financial Focus
There’s never really a bad time to do estate planning. But in the months ahead, you may have an extra incentive to look at your estate plans. Why? Because changes are coming to estate tax laws – so you’ll want to be ready.

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