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For property that did not have a beneficiary designation or was not in a living trust, there may be "simplified probate" procedures or "small estate affidavit" procedures in for transferring certain kinds of property at death, which can avoid the cost and time of a full-blown court-supervised probate proceeding.
, like most states, does not impose an estate or inheritance tax. Only a few states do.
The minimum wage in is the same as the federal minimum wage: $7.25 an hour.
The minimum wage in Baltimore County is $7.25 an hour, the state minimum wage. However, cities and counties in Maryland are free to adopt their own higher minimum wage, and dozens of cities and counties across the country have done so. To find out whether Baltimore County has passed its own minimum wage law since we last updated, visit https://www.baltimorecountymd.gov/.
In , your employer may pay you a minimum wage of $2.13 an hour, as long as you earn enough in tips to bring your total hourly pay up to the full minimum wage, $7.25 an hour. If you don’t earn enough in tips to bring your compensation to the full minimum wage, your employer must make up the difference.
Although the federal bankruptcy code provides a list of exemptions, these exemptions are not available in . law requires you to use the exemptions found in state law -- not the U.S. bankruptcy code.
In , you can receive unemployment benefits for a maximum of 26 weeks under state law.