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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (May 1, 1988)
BETTER HEALTH CHIROPRACTIC CLINIC Spring cleaning is a good idea for "A Total Personal Health Concept" your legal affairs, too t r • Deep Muscle Work • Exercise/Prevention • Sportsmedicine It is easy and natural to put off taking care of details if you don t know what to do. Some delays can be costly. intent to exercise an option or extension. Some times lease terms become disputed, but the parties delay in resolving the dispute. For s certain as death and taxes is the human example, I recently helped a person sell a tendency to delay in taking action. business on very favorable terms. At the last Although some delays are inevitable, delays in minute, the landlord demanded $7,000 for solving your legal problems can be more costly “ back electric bills” because he and the and complicated than taking action now. The tenant had been fussing for years over how the purpose of this column is to encourage you to single electric-meter reading was to be divided review your affairs, to solve old problems and among several tenants. The landlord’s claim possibly to prevent future ones. You need not almost killed the sale. This problem should have consult a lawyer to give yourself a legal checkup, been solved when it came up. B Y B R A D L E Y J. W O O D W O R T H . Esq. 222-2888 Rena Sandler, D.C. I/ / Ç J V / Doctor on 24 hour page for emergencies 1130 SW Morrison, Suite 301 (by the light-rail turnaround) Workers’ Comp & Auto Insurance Cover Chiropractic Care Insurance Accepted .C oum U I~ The OREGON but you may wish to do so if your review reveals a problem that needs attention. GAY DATING LINE » A Property, contracts and leases Personal telephone ads for dating, friendship and romance. Only $2.94 per call. C all 24 hrs. 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If you fail to object to a neighbor’s use of your property, you could lose the disputed piece of land. If you delay in recording a deed, you could lose your priority against others who have recorded their documents. If you are selling property on a contract and have consistently accepted late or partial pay ments from your buyers, you will need to “ reinstate” the contract requirements of full payment on time before the buyers can be held in default. If you have a residential or commercial lease, you may need to give advance notice of your lust out A P A R T Y TO R EM EM B ER — F A N T A S Y F E S T OCTOBER 27-30, I989 i DAYS STARTING AT $295 00 PPdo — MIAMI — KEY WEST — DRY TORTUGAS J OREGON’S MONTHLY LESBIAN/GAY NEWSMAGAZINE L E G RA N D E VO YAG E — M E D IT E R R A N E A N JULY 22 29. 1989 7 DAYS STARTING AT $179.00 PPdo — NICE — PORTOFINO — COSTA — SMERALOA — PALERMO — VALLETTA — KATAKOLON — CORFU — DUBROVNIK — VENICE ^RSVP 1989 Cruises C A BIN S GOING FA ST 224-5000 200 S.W. MARKET • PORTLAND. OR Just Out 28 May 19X8 Wills and estate planning The most common area of delay is in making or revising a will. If you want your property to pass to your lover, and there is no will, your property will pass to your blood relatives (or spouse, if you are separated but have not gotten a divorce) instead. If you have a will, it may need to be updated if your main beneficiaries have died or your feelings about them have changed. Many changes to a will can be made by a codicil, eliminating the need to make an entirely new will. If your net worth exceeds $600,000 you defi nitely should not delay planning your estate so as to avoid estate taxes. Insurance policies You should perodically review all your insur ance coverages. Are all your possible losses insured against? Are the limits sufficient to pro tect you? If years ago you bought a minimum automobile liability policy — usually $25,000 — and have not updated it, you may not be fully covered. If you wreck another's $50,000 Mercedes, you may be liable for $25,000. It is easy to consume $25,000 in personal injury coverage as well. Make sure your insurance is adequate to protect you and your assets. Life insurance needs and beneficiaries also may change. Driving and parking Is your driver’s license current? Do you have any outstanding parking tickets? If you moved without informing DMV of your new address, your license might be suspended and you might not know it. Overdue parking tickets in Portland double after 30 days. Your car can be towed from the street for any unpaid tickets, and if your unpaid tickets total $56 or more, your car is automati cally put on the 4 ‘tow list.’ ’ Coming out of a restaurant or movie house to find your car gone is very disturbing — believe me, I know. You will be further disturbed when you have to pay in cash all the fines as well as outrageous towing company fees to a (usually) surly tow-truck operator. It is easy and natural to put off taking care of details if you don’t know what to do. Some delays can be costly. Take a couple of hours to go over the details you have been putting off. You may save yourself time, trouble and money at a later date. • VISTA TRAVEL SERVICE In Oregon 1-800-245-5557 Perhaps you and your lover have bought a house or your affairs have become substantial without making a formal agreement about joint and separate property. You may be putting off formalizing a domestic partnership agreement only to buy future problems. Finally, . . Wayne Boulette Travel Counselor 1 Couple’s agreements and partnerships HAIR DESIGN 234-1276 2 0 0 8 N.E. SANDY BLVD. • PORTLAND Bradley J. Woodworth is an attorney in private practice and maintains an office in the Oregon Trail Building in downtown Portland.