Instead, what matters are beliefs that the utility company does a bad job managing customer service, costs, and wildfires. Distrust among survey respondents aligns with interview participants' descriptions of utility companies as powerful, greedy monopolies that benefit themselves at...
in so many different roles, it is important to align the priorities for all players to ensure everyone is pulling in the same direction. For example, suppose the vendor who creates a government website cuts costs on cybersecurity and subsequently suffers a data breach. In that case, that ...
Transaction cost economics (TCE) as developed by Williamson (1975, 1979, 1985, 1991) focuses on the relationship between attributes of transactions and characteristics of the governance structures used to accommodate these transactions. Transactions vary in many dimensions, the most important of which ...
Assets like stocks and real estate that was once in your or your business’s name will be protected by an offshore trust. An offshore trust will protect your assets from government seizure as well. I had a personal experience with this many years ago when the California Franchise Tax Board...
Trust, estate, conservatorship, elder and elder abuse, etc. litigation and contentious administrationshttp://californiaestatetrust.com David Tate, Esq. (and inactive California CPA) – practicing only as an attorney in California. Just a quick update as I have not posted for a while. First, in...
In California, this entity operates under the name MetLife Legal Insurance Services. In certain states, group legal plans are provided through insurance coverage underwritten by Metropolitan General Insurance Company, Warwick, RI. Payroll deduction required for group legal plans. For costs and complete...
Estabpshing trust always has a cost,so that having complex trust requirement typically leads to high overhead in estabpshing the required trust.To reduce costs there will beincentives for stakeholders to“cut corners”regarding trust requirements,which could lead to inadequate security.The challenge ...
“Revocable trusts are among the most common estate planning vehicles, particularly when there is a desire to avoid the costs and delays that can accompany probate in certain states,” says Bruce Colin, a certified financial planner with his own firm in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. ...
In the 1980s, antitrust enforcers typically assumed that “traditional antitrust law” – antitrust as enforced during the mid-20th century “golden era” – imposed substantial efficiency costs.[282] As David Blato, a senior FTC official, explained in 1999: “A major part of that ...
The costs involved in probating a will, which can include both lawyer and court fees, vary widely according to the size and complexity of the estate, as well as by location. For example, in Santa Clara, California, they often add up to 4% to 7% or more of the value of the estate....