The Williams Law Firm, PLLC

10/15/2026

The October winner for the Real Estate Agent & Mortgage Lender drawing is Sarah Stansfield Turner, Realtor/Broker at Coldwell Banker Boyd and Hassell 🎉 You will receive 20% off our fee for the closing of your next submitted contract 🏠

10/14/2026

An Estate Plan can be perfectly signed, neatly stored, and still be wrong for the life you are living now. That is the quiet risk with an outdated plan, the documents may look official, but the people, assets, and assumptions behind them may no longer match reality.

An Estate Plan can be perfectly signed, neatly stored, and still be wrong for the life you are living now. That is the quiet risk with an outdated plan,

10/12/2026

The Supreme Court’s realignment roundup: October Term 2025

(Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)A legal realignment has been underway for some years now, in that legal views once associated with the right are now being espoused by the left, and vice versa. This post explores that point as to the Supreme Court’s October Term 2025, adapting the categories I used in ...

10/06/2026

Lately, headlines have floated an eye-catching idea about tapping into your 401(k) to cover a down payment on a home.

10/04/2026

Most estate planning attorneys will spend their careers reading about slayer statutes rather than applying them, which is probably how everyone would prefer it. These statutes exist for the worst cases, the ones in which someone may stand to inherit from a person in whose death that same person may have played a role.

Most estate planning attorneys will spend their careers reading about slayer statutes rather than applying them, which is probably how everyone would

10/02/2026

Republican groups file emergency application to court on broadcasting rates for political ads

(Kevin Carter/Getty Images)Two Republican groups on Monday asked the Supreme Court to temporarily pause a ruling by a federal appeals court that, they told the justices, “rewrote longstanding rules about preferential broadcast rates for political ads.” With the upcoming midterm elections just ov...

09/30/2026

When’s the last time someone told you what your house is worth? Not what some online valuation tool guessed. Not what your neighbor’s house sold for. What yours is actually worth right now.

When's the last time someone told you what your house is worth? Not what some online valuation tool guessed. Not what your neighbor's house sold for. What yours is actually worth right now.

09/27/2026

Supreme Court allows construction on White House ballroom to continue

(Kevin Carter/Getty Images)The Supreme Court on Monday granted the Trump administration’s request to allow construction on a new White House ballroom to continue. By a vote of 5-4, the court paused a ruling by a federal judge in Washington, D.C., that would have halted above-ground construction of...

09/18/2026

Few things are as rattling as the thought of your home sale falling through at the last minute, right before closing. All that waiting, all that progress, out the window.

09/16/2026

The September winner for the Real Estate Agent & Mortgage Lender drawing is Kay Loftin, Broker with Coldwell Banker Boyd & Hassell 🎉 You will receive 20% off our fee for the closing of your next submitted contract 🏠