Food and Agricultural Law Blog

Divorce Mediation for Farm Families in Illinois: Can You Protect the Farm Without Going to Court? For many farm families, that question carries far more weight than a typical property-division dispute. A farm may be a family’s home, livelihood, business, retirement plan, and legacy all at once. When a marriage ends, decisions about farmland, equipment, livestock, operating entities, debt, and ... Read More The post Divorce Mediation for Farm Families in Illinois: Can You Protect the Farm Without Going to Court? appeared first on Rincker Law, PLLC.

Farm Lease Disputes in Illinois: When Mediation Can Help Landowners and Farmers Avoid Litigation is an increasingly important question when a disagreement threatens a working relationship, a farming operation, or plans for the next crop year. A farm lease is more than an agreement about acreage and rent. It can affect planting decisions, input purchases, improvements, financing, access to land, ... Read More The post Farm Lease Disputes in Illinois: When Mediation Can Help Landowners and Farmers Avoid Litigation appeared first on Rincker Law, PLLC.

Divorcing a Business Owner in Illinois: What Happens to the Business? can be a much more complicated question than deciding who keeps a house or how a bank account should be divided. A closely held business may represent income, years of work, family wealth, and one spouse’s future livelihood all at the same time. Whether the relevant asset is an ... Read More The post Divorcing a Business Owner in Illinois: What Happens to the Business? appeared first on Rincker Law, PLLC.

Should a Family Farm Have a Buy-Sell Agreement? What Happens When an Owner Dies, Divorces, or Wants Out? is a question farm families should consider long before an ownership change becomes urgent. A family farming operation may involve parents, siblings, children, cousins, or multiple generations who own land or interests in an LLC or other business entity together. Everyone may ... Read More The post Should a Family Farm Have a Buy-Sell Agreement? What Happens When an Owner Dies, Divorces, or Wants Out? appeared first on Rincker Law, PLLC.

By Sam Ellis, Esq. When USDA says no, an unfavorable agency decision does not necessarily mean the matter is over. In “When USDA Says No: Understanding the National Appeals Division Appeal Process,” Sam Ellis, Esq., of Rincker Law, PLLC, explains what farmers, ranchers, and other agricultural program participants should know about challenging certain adverse USDA decisions through the National Appeals ... Read More The post When USDA Says No: Understanding the National Appeals Division Appeal Process appeared first on Rincker Law, PLLC.