Sarita Garg's Legal Blog

I am very pleased and very excited to announce the expansion of Smith & Garg into the South Houston area.  We will be open for business in the South Houston office next month (mid-April 2008), and our practice areas will focus on Immigration Law, Family Law, & Wills/Probate/Estates. Our South office address will be :
11000 Richmond, […]

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Whether you are an employer, or an employee, it is important to know what your rights are with respect to either receiving Unemployment Insurance (UI) or paying it out.  There are so many uncertainties surrounding UI in Texas, due to the “at-will” nature of employment in this state, that I thought I would write a bit on […]

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There is no greater act of selflessness than the adoption of a child. Nobody knows this better than Angelina Jolie! Since 1987 the annual number of children who were adopted has hovered between 118,000 to 127,000. In Texas in 2005 there were over 10,000 children in foster care that needed stable loving homes. There were over […]

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In basic terms, an “arbitration clause” is a paragraph that is typically inserted into a contract or written agreement, and provides that all parties to the contract or agreement, agree that if a dispute should arise between the parties, then all parties agree to go through the “arbitration process”.  You may be wondering, what is arbitration?  Arbitration, alterative dispute resolution (ADR), or mediation, all refer […]

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Our firm recently (on the 22nd of February) celebrated the first anniversary of Smith & Garg which was actually a few months before that, but timing was not the best due to our firm moving office locations, and expanding in Long Beach, California. It was extremely thoughtful of Mama Garg & Papa Garg (my in-laws) […]

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