Lawyers are used to legal jargon but sometimes they forget that the average person does not make it a habit to browse through a law dictionary in the way we do. Below are the most common acronyms and terms that you will come across: 730 EVALUATION During custody disputes, the courts must evaluate the best …
In California dissolution cases, both parties have a duty to complete a Declaration of Disclosure which includes the list of the assets and possessions that each party has, called a Schedule of Assets and Debts. Of course, that doesn’t mean you need to account for every book or drink you have in your hand, but …
One of the biggest legal cornerstones of the 21st century is the recognition of equal rights for gay and lesbian couples. This movement has brought to the surface issues of custody and visitation rights of minor children of “non-traditional” families and how the law applies to them. Whether it’s unwed relationships, marriages, or domestic partnerships–no …
We live in a volatile society and as such, many lawyers are faced with clients that admit to us that they fathered a child with a married man or woman. Then, they wonder, “Who’s the father?” Under California Law ( CA Family Code Section 7540), there is a conclusive presumption of paternity for children that …
When I arrived to the United States in 1997, I became a victim of identity theft…the person who assumed my identity and social security number, went around pretending to be me and creating debts in my name.
Place a fraud alert with all the major credit report companies. An initial fraud alert is valid for 90 days, so you need to renew it as soon as it expires. Order credit reports. Create an Identity Theft Report: a. Write out all the details using the FTC report guidelines and print a copy of …
It’s blatantly obvious that our economy is not in the best of shapes; people lose their jobs but the bills just keep piling up. At one point or another, the internet goes out altogether and you find yourself burrowed in public wifi locations in dire efforts to make a living for yourself. You are not …
When we communicate either orally or in script, words are sewn together to form sentences, which provide the reader and listener with an external version of our inner speech. Depending on the speaker’s tone and writer’s word choice, each sentence is imbued with different meaning, intention, causation and expression. Because we communicate so reflexively with …
Emerson once said, “Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.” The two are interchangeable in the world of fraud. You speak and write for a purpose and that purpose is then hinted to the listener or reader through your word choice. That becomes a part of a linguistic pattern that alerts …
How do you know that the person you socialize with, work with, or even date or marry, is actually the person that they say they are? By law, when someone dies, their social security number is part of the public domain because no one can reuse or re-issue that same social security number ever again–it’s …
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