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Child support is not set in stone. If there has been a substantial change in circumstances, either party may go back to court and ask that the order be modified.
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Home Depot Confirms Data Breach
On Monday, Home Depot officially confirmed what was already suspected - hackers breached its payment systems and stole consumer credit and debit card information.
Although there isn't a specific number of people possibly affected by the hack, the company's investigation went back as far as this April. In all likelihood, the Home Depot breach will turn out to be much bigger than the one that hit Target at the end of last year.
State Attorneys General are already lining up investigations of their own into the circumstances surrounding the breach. In the meantime, consumers who shopped at Home Depot using a credit or debit card should be diligently monitoring their credit reports. To that end, Home Depot is offering affected consumers free credit monitoring services.
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Olive Garden Offers $100 Unlimited Pass
In an effort to pick up some media attention for it's Never Ending Pasta Bowl, Olive Garden is offering consumers an opportunity to have all the pasta they want for seven weeks. That's right - for $100, Olive Garden aficionados can enjoy all the pasta, salad, breadsticks, and soda they want. The catch? The pass only lasts for seven weeks from the date of purchase and will only be available to the first 1,000 consumers to sign up.
If you're planning to head out to Olive Garden to take advantage of the promotion, hang tight. The company sold out of passes in less than 45 minutes.
Would you pay $100 for seven weeks of unlimited Olive Garden pasta?
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Apple Unveils New Series of Products
On Tuesday, Apple held its yearly event to announce a new series of products. Talked about for months, Tuesday's event was just as much for Apple fanatics as it was for a mainstream audience as its products become embedded in the foundation of how we find information and communicate with the world around us.
As it does every year, Apple introduced the latest variation of the iPhone. Littered with a variety of new features, including larger display options, Apple hopes to get consumers out to retail stores to trade up from their older models.
The introduction of the new iPhone wasn't the only thing introduced at the event. What other products and upgrades did Apple roll out?
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For the Lawyers
When a party reads FACTA in an objectively reasonable manner, court does not have to consider facts related to subjective intent to assess willfulness.
The Eighth Circuit held that a membership wholesaler who printed more than the last five digits of the customer’s credit card, labeled “membership number,” did not willfully violate FACTA. The court found the retailer reasonably could have assumed the statue prohibits printing more than the last five digits of the credit card, so labeled.
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