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My father just recently passed having left a will & trust. My mother is still living. I will give more detail as you see fit buy I'll post my question to start. My sister has possession of the Trust but will not let me see it or have a copy. She says my father told her to protect it from...

Hello, I am being sued and the case is close to being settled. The incident occurred at our family home and our homeowners insurance has provided us with an attorney to defend us. Since the attorney I’ve been provided essentially works for the insurance company, is it okay to have my...

Hello there! Our company — a small advertising agency based in Los Angeles, CA — recently won a proposal to take over the digital marketing and social media management for a large online brand. The SOW contract is surprisingly short and mostly boilerplate, but there is one clause whose...

We are renting a bounce house, snow cone machine and generator from a local company for my son's birthday party at a park. This is part of the wording in their contract: Breach/Indemnity/Arbitration: In the event that Lessee breaches any of the terms of this lease, that Lessee will pay for...

My mom passed away. She was a resident of California. Can Medi-Cal Estate Recovery recover for bed holds? She needed a few bed holds when she had to spend time in the hospital for various issues.

My son was involved in a car accident where the other driver admitted fault, which is confirmed in a police report. There were no injuries to either party. There is significant frontend damage to our car but is still drivable. The other driver is a county employee and has listed the county as...

Mom passed away Apr 9th 2022. No will, she had signed her pink to her car over to me to prevent anything happening to it. I left it in her name. She had dementia. I had eventually gotten a POA and AHCDPOA after a year and a half of trying to get her back home after my younger half brother had...

I bought and occupied a property in August of 1989. I lived there as my principle residence for 9 years from 1989 to 1997. I rented the property for 22 years from 1997 to 2019. I have remodeled the property and would like to sell it. I would like to move back into the property for 2 years...

My husband and I are contracting a surrogate in the country of Georgia. They asked for copies of our marriage certificate and passport photos, but then took issue that my last name is not the same on my passport (married name) than on my marriage certificate (maiden name). We live in Los Angeles...

I'm an American Citizen born abroad bearing dual citizenship. I am a divorced dad I have joint custody an order that allows me to travel to my native country with my son. We have traveled many times in the past without any incident. Every time we traveled we returned on the day we were supposed...

Do lawyers usually retain copies of estate planning documents (will, trust, power of attorney, etc.)? Ours did not. After we were done signing everything, he handed us the giant binder with all the documents. I asked if he would be keeping a copy on file, and it kind of surprised me when he said...

I was curious if Bill Handle (on the Law - on KFI Radio Los Angeles) was right. He said that if there were two signers to a year lease and it then converted to month to month thereafter - and the girlfriend decided to stay, but the boyfriend didn't - Bill said that the boyfriend would forever...

Unfortunately after typing this up I realized my question became very long winded. So let me first state the basic question, and then details afterwards: When successor trustees of a revocable living trust become the trustees, can they (after providing required documentation to the bank) write...

Hello, I have a nephew who is in jail with a murder charge. He allegedly stuck another person and that person was in the hospital for 3 days and released. He was arrested and charged with murder and has been held on that charge for about a month. Meanwhile, the "victim" has been going about his...

Can someone be charged with conflicting charges for one event, for example grand theft and receipt of stolen property for the same vehicle/same event? I would think it should be either/or as it can't be both.

My brother-in-law was accused of raping his then-girlfriend (same age) in 1995. they were both 16 years old. he was found guilty by adjudication and was sentenced to 6 years in CYA. Fast forward to today, he received stolen property and due to his past they want to get him for 25 years (3...

What are my chances to get partial custody of my 3 daughters ages 15, 10 and 8 if a get divorced, having a misdemeanor that requires me to register as a sex offender for 10 years, the misdemeanor charge is "contacting a minor to meet" which I plan to expunge as soon as my unsupervised probation...