#Zeh & Associates P.C.

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Protecting Intellectual Property

Founded by Christopher Zeh in 2013, the law firm of Zeh & Associates, P.C., is committed to aggressively defending the rights of its clients. Located in the state of New York, Zeh & Associates, P.C., handles both criminal and civil legal issues, including business related situations such as contract disputes, commercial litigation, and intellectual property matters. Intellectual property is often a company’s most valuable asset, and protecting this property often means going through the lengthy and expensive patent process. There are also a number of business practices a company can incorporate to decrease the likelihood that this asset is infringed upon, including adequate IP security such as encryption, attaching a confidentiality notice to source code as well as a warning prohibiting unauthorized use when work is outsourced, and ensuring defensible legal agreements are in place. Documentation that begins with the inception of the idea and tracks its development (when, where, and who) can be crucial if a company ever needs to defend against stolen intellectual property. Additionally, the faster an idea can be commercialized, the safer it will be.

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International Trusts For Asset Protection

Based in Melville, New York, Zeh & Associates, P.C. provides a broad range of legal services to individual and corporate clients. The services offered by Zeh & Associates, P.C., include international trust transactions. An international trust is a trust created and registered in a country other than where the settlor resides. One advantage of establishing an international trust is that often the laws in foreign jurisdictions provide for better asset protection from the risk of litigation. Another advantage is the trust can provide protection of one’s assets if they reside in a country that is politically unstable or experiencing social unrest. International trusts also can provide a higher level of confidentiality when handling one’s business affairs, but the intent is not to gain any tax advantage other than legitimate tax benefits, such as credit shelter planning and family gift giving. The trust also should not result in any detrimental tax.

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Preferred Features of Chapter 7 Bankruptcy

The law firm of Zeh & Associates, P.C., serves clients in Suffolk and Nassau Counties of New York as well as New York City. The attorneys of Zeh & Associates, P.C., provide a full array of legal services, ranging from real estate transactions to the resolution of personal bankruptcies. Many people prefer Chapter 7 bankruptcy to Chapter 13 because it is fast and does not require a repayment plan. It works for people who have limited disposable income and little property to sell. Eligibility for Chapter 7 depends on whether your household earns less than the size-adjusted median family income of your state. If so, the person administering your bankruptcy sells off qualifying property and uses the proceeds to pay your creditors. The list of exempt property (that which you can keep) varies from state to state, but often includes tools of your trade, a vehicle, clothing, furniture, and some of the equity in your car and home. Bear in mind that car and house payments must be up to date. Some retirement accounts may also be on the exempted list. Certain obligations, however, cannot be settled through Chapter 7. These include unpaid income taxes, student loans, and spouse and child support.

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The Basics of Estate Planning

Located in Melville, New York, and serving Suffolk and Nassau Counties and the New York City area, Zeh & Associates, P.C., provides its clients a wide range of legal services. Zeh & Associates, P.C., often handles estate planning matters, such as wills and trusts. Broadly defined, estate planning is a process by which an individual or family mandates the transfer of assets after a person’s death. An estate plan is designed to ensure that the heirs named in a will receive the maximum amount of the decedent’s assets possible. Assets come in several forms, such as real estate, automobiles, bank accounts, and household items. Trusts are an alternate means of transferring assets. In a trust arrangement, a trustee holds cash, real estate, securities, or other items on behalf of an heir. The trustee pays the heir from this trust fund for various living expenses. The heir gains full legal rights to the fund when he or she passes a certain age or reaches a life event set out in the trust agreement. Trusts have another benefit: they are not subject to probate, a long and often expensive legal procedure through which wills must be processed.

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Blood Alcohol Concentration Thresholds for DWI in New York

Zeh & Associates, P.C., a law firm that serves clients in the counties of Nassau and Suffolk and in New York City’s five boroughs, is headquartered in Melville, New York. Moreover, Zeh & Associates, P.C., offers its clients a wide range of services. It represents them in civil and criminal cases, including those involving driving while intoxicated (DWI). In New York, a person aged 21 years or older who operates a car with a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of 0.08% or more can get a DWI even if the vehicle is not moving. This is because, in the state, one can be charged with the offence for simply operating a vehicle while intoxicated. In fact, if one gets into a car and starts the engine, he or she can get a DWI. It is important to note that one can get a DWI if his or her BAC is lower than 0.08% in certain circumstances. For example, for drivers of commercial motor vehicles, the threshold is 0.04%, and for drivers below 21 years of age, it is 0.02%. Anyone who drives in New York state automatically consents to the possibility of being subjected to a chemical test to identify the amount of drugs or alcohol in his or her blood.

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The Different Types of Syndicate Transactions

Based in Melville, New York, law firm Zeh & Associates, P.C., provides legal representation to Long Island-area clients. The attorneys at Zeh & Associates, P.C., offer clients legal representation in matters including syndication transactions. A syndicate is a temporary group created for the purpose of performing a specific financial transaction that would be too risky for one to carry out individually. Syndication is essentially a tool for companies to work together, leveraging each other’s individual strengths, to perform a large transaction carrying great risk but with a significant return on investment potential. There are many different examples of syndications. Loan syndication occurs where a group of lenders come together to finance a single borrower. The borrower could be a large corporation or a sovereign government. The lenders would come together to spread the risk of lending to the borrower. The interest rate may be fixed or variable. An underwriting syndicate is formed by a group of investment banks working together for a single transaction such as taking a company public. Real estate companies may also form a syndicate to take on a project with a considerable risk such as constructing a large estate. Companies in similar fields may also form syndicates to leverage each other’s strengths in a similar transaction. For example, two pharmaceutical companies may form a syndicate to develop a new drug with one contributing heavily toward research and development while the other oversees manufacturing and distribution.