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The Fair Housing Act is frequently used to prosecute cross burning cases. All the government needs to do is show that there was intent to intimidate the occupant of the house (a court decision shows that just the act of the cross burning itself isn't sufficient to imply this). Whoever...

They never explain why you're named in the filing. You just get a long list of names of owners or potential owners.

Note that there is often (and I'm pretty sure this includes Virginia) implicit sight right of ways at corners, though low barriers probably won't be affected by that.

They err on the side of listing everybody who might have any interest in the property. They don't want to be in the position of foreclosing and then finding out they missed some owner with a fraction. As an potential heir, you qualify. There are no legal ramifications for you. If you...

Depends on how much they give you. Anything over $16,000 (per donor) needs to be reported, but there is no tax do until they hit the $12 million lifetime gift exemption. There are a few times when omitted children can get a share of the estate, but it is very narrow. Essentially, you have...

Umm... what funds did he use? I wouldn't get too attached to that money quite yet. Lots of fraud out there. The sad news is it is near impossible to tell when a check clears these days. It can take many weeks to find out you have a forged cashiers check, for instance.

My wife has allergies to some drugs and she was prescribed an unrelated and still had a reaction from it. Fortunately, I had been a paramedic years ago and said "looks like a drug allergy to me" and got her to the doc. Shiat happens. This is why the local pharmacy has a rather...

Even if the prescribing of the drug was negligent (and I'm not saying it is here), you don't seem to have any lasting damages so you've not hit the malpractice lottery here.

The poster should make sure that some tolling provision isn't in play (for example, they have left the state). While the hospital is free to attempt to collect debts after SOL expiry, third parties (collection agencies) may not.

The other driver's net worth is irrelevant. It just means you're more likely to collect a judgement than if you have one that is over a less affluent driver's insurance limits. You'll get is the medical bills you have spent or reasonably can be expected to have as a result of the accident...

Yep, just got one myself from a private equity thing I'm involved with.

The funeral bill is not required for probate. It's for the case of distributing assets without probate. And it's not just the funeral expense but any of the estate debts. This is an express thing to give out a few remaining estate items when everything else has taken care of. Stop getting...

My wife used to ask one of her octogenarian volunteers how he was doing. He'd feel his pulse for a few seconds and announce "Great!"

AdjusterJack is 100% correct. Sorry that you don't agree. I got nailed a similar way once. I can tell you that even my insisting that they should have slowed as the car immediately in front of me (after moving into the lane) was at a dead stop and there was plenty of room for me to move...

I should point out that a "certain period of time" may indeed be "forever."

I'd have told them to pound sand. They only have eight weeks to notice a mathematical or clerical error and come after the employee.

Not that I'm aware of, but being caught cheating is certainly grounds to be fired for cause.

If he's telling his story about how his wife ran off with another woman, it's not entirely improper to refer to it as autobiographical.

Because WC is pretty much your only option. The problem is that unless you have cash in hand to pay the lawyer, they aren't interested. WC is different that some other actions like Social Security Disability and the like where there is a regulatory reimbursement of attorney fees. 2/3 of...

In deed, Simon and Schuster will almost certainly do it. Of course, tons of books get published by POD and Vanity Presses that do no editorial at all. If the author is not the subject (or at least a ghostwriter for) this is indeed a problem. If I write a book called "The Autobiography of...