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Friends of friends are a terrible resource for legal issues. The order of the names on the deeds won't matter. As joint owners you all share the exact same rights and obligations with respect to the property. If your mother's name is not on the current title to the home she has none of the...

This case is a great example of how a seemingly innocuous bill when passed can end up causing all kinds of unintended after shocks. The concept of realization is one of the bedrock principles that underlie our current federal income tax code and has been that way for over 100 years. One other...

Yes, if the OP wants to keep it. From the information the OP provided I think that any loan payoff was not factored into the price of the vehicle. That could result in the OP having to pay a lot more than the vehicle is worth unless the lender is willing to flexible on ideas regarding how to...

My first thought is to check with the Guam agency that licenses and registers vehicles to see if you may be able to obtain a new, corrected, or substitute title document from that agency after providing whatever proof it may require that you are now the owner of the vehicle. I suspect doing that...

Unfortunately those hearing the incorrect statement don't have any immediate way to know which it is and it seems to me that in our society today more people are pretty quick to assume an incorrect statement is a lie than was the case several decades ago. I've seen far too many personal and...

Maybe it's the holiday eggnog that has us all in good cheer and agreeable. :D

That's pretty much my understanding as well.

If the return was accurate you shouldn't have much to worry about. The only way the IRS is likely to even find out about your statement in the deposition is if someone who knows about it tells the IRS and/or provides the deposition transcript. Even then your reply of "yes" to the question of...

That depends on how the law firm handled the records. What exactly did the law firm do? And what, if any, financial damages did you suffer from it? If you have no damages then you don't have anything to pursue in a negligence claim. State law might provide you a statutory remedy if the company...

She would only sue your girlfriend if your girlfriend might have been at fault in the accident. If the other driver was at fault, that's the person she'd sue. So the answer to Jack's question is critical as that determines what options the cousin would have. It also matters how severe the...

The state is not obligated to refund fines for acts there were criminal at the time the acts were done. All that repeal of a criminal statute does is make an act that was once illegal in the past legal going forward. If you were arrested and fined for being in possession of weed after weed was...

While there is a lot of information there, it is not organized in a way that is meant to provide a good explanation of the employee vs. independent contractor issue. IRS publication 15-A provides a very detailed discussion of the issue in plain English. Likewise, those Schedule C instructions...

Report the company if you want some action taken by the state. I'd suggest starting with the state attorney general's office. It will decide if it wants to pursue a phone recording violation. Are all your calls to Florida residents? As an independent contractor the company may terminate your...

The police had a black and white case! :D

I wrote regulations for the IRS when I was an attorney there. I know how to write rules. And the example you gave is exactly the kind of rule to which I was referring. It tells you what may not do. You bolded only two words of the rule to prove your point, but what you didn't bold is the...

The most common rule in the U.S. is that parents are obligated to pay for any contract of the minor that the parent guaranteed and are obligated to pay for certain necessities for the child (e.g. food, healthcare, etc.) College tuition is not a necessity and in most states the parents are under...

I recall one of my mother's oft given advice to my sister and me was the old adage "If you have nothing good to say about another, then say nothing at all." It's the same idea. And good advice, for the most part anyway.

That may be the case, though in the places I've lived that's not how ordinances are written. They are written to impose some kind of restriction. Even an ordinance that says "the homeowner may only have homes with outside colors that are on the council's approved list" is one that tells you what...

There is no federal or state law that prohibits persons from discussing public events or public records. The First Amendment would protect such speech from government action against the persons talking about it. The court records for these cases are public records and discussion of the alleged...

The question you are asking is about venue, which is the legal term referring to a particular court within the same court system. In this case, you could file the claim either in the county where the defendant lives or in the county where the action that gives rise to the claim occurred, and...