I just love it when my writing hits the press! And I especially love it when it combines my two passion areas — family law and agriculture law. I am honored to have authored the Fact Sheets on family law …
Read Family Law Issues in Agriculture: Fact Sheets with the National Agriculture Law Center
Equitable distribution (“ED”) is the allocation of the marital estate in a divorce. Importantly, not all states are equitable distribution states; instead, states like Texas and California are community property states. The majority of states are equitable distribution states, but …
Read Family Law Issues in Agriculture: Equitable Distribution
Since practicing family law in Central Illinois, I have had a lot of farm divorces. Hear me discuss three considerations for farm and ranch families going through a divorce here.
Read Ask Cari: What are Some Considerations for Farm or Ranch Divorces?
Hear Cari talk the Produce Safety Rule with fellow food and agriculture lawyer, Lauren Handel with Handel Food Law, on this episode of Ag Law Today. Don’t forget to subscribe on iTunes and/or YouTube so you don’t miss a beat!
Loved this conversation with fellow Illinois food and agriculture lawyer, Rich Schell, on all things direct farm marketing. Don’t forget to subscribe on YouTube or iTunes. Links are also posted on my Podcasts page here.
Prenuptial agreements are oftentimes viewed as taboo; instead, farmers, ranchers, agribusiness owners, and food entrepreneurs should view prenuptial agreements like an insurance policy for a marriage. Nobody gets on an airplane thinking that it is going to crash, but you …
Read Family Law Issues in Agriculture: Prenuptial Agreements
Most parties going through a divorce do not consider the option of keeping the farm business intact. Everyone’s brains (including the lawyers’) typically go to dividing the farm/ranch assets, along with its inventory. However, there is another option: keeping the …
Read Family Law Issues in Agriculture: Keeping the Business Intact
It is uncommon for agriculture producers and business owners to consider estate planning and succession planning for their agriculture operation in the midst of a divorce; however, divorcing farm families should consider this while negotiating the division of marital assets. …
Read Family Law Issues with Agriculture: Estate and Succession Planning
Principal Attorney, Cari Rincker, will visit East Central Illinois Women Attorney’s Association (“ECIWAA”) on Tuesday, November 19th at 11:45am and speak about food and agriculture law. She will be at Biaggi’s along with the ECIWAA crew that day. Cari is …
Read Cari Rincker to Speak on Food & Agriculture Law to ECIWAA
Hear Associate Attorney, Will Culp, talk about why folks are sometimes referred here. As a heads up, Rincker Law is proud to have referral lists for both lawyers and nonlaywers- we want to be a resource in the community. Don’t …