Legal Questions and Answers
What Can I Do To Terminate Lease When I Failed To Give Timely Notice?
My daughter has a one year lease set to expire in August 2009. She wants to relocate to NYC. She gave a written notice within 60 days of the lease expiring but the lease requires a 90 day notice. My daughter is moving by the end of August. The landlord automatically renewed her lease without her approval because there was no change in the rent amount. The landlord wants my daug...
07/06/2009 | Category: Landlord Ten... » Lease Termin... | State: New York | #17364How Do I Get Records Expunged in Tennessee?
In 1989, I was arrested on false charges and received a disposition of 'no bill'. The courts failed to enter the disposition to GCIC. Almost 20 years later, the disposition is being entered solely because I requested it. Is this something that I can get expunged or is it automatically erased due to no conviction? And, once the courts enter this into GCIC, is the FBI electronica...
07/06/2009 | Category: Criminal » Expungement ... | State: Tennessee | #17363Can I Get a Restraining Order to Keep Visitors From My Home?
My husband and I divorced in CA in November 2008 after 42 years of marriage. Our home is in both our names. He was ordered to make the mortgage payments. We are currently living together because of the economy and because he can't afford to pay my court-directed alimony. I consider the money he's not paying me helps out with the mortgage payment. I am currently in TX helpin...
07/06/2009 | Category: Restraining Order | State: Texas | #17360How Do I Remove Deceased Spouse From Deed in Florida?
My client's wife died. There exists a Warranty Deed, Corporate Grantor for a condo they purchased. The conveyance was to my client and his wife (now deceased) as Joint Tenants in Common with Full Rights of Survivorship. What, if anything, needs to be done to convey this to my client? Will a new Warranty Deed with the Corporate Grantors signature and then recorded in the pro...
07/06/2009 | Category: Real Property » Deeds | State: Iowa | #17358How Do I Distribute Assets of Deceased in Florida?
MY SON DIED SUDDENLY ON JANUARY, 09 AT AGE 42. HE LEFT NO WILL. HE WAS A DIVORCED PARENT SINCE 1994 AND HAD PRIMARY CUSTODY OF 2 MINOR CHILDREN, AGES 15 AND 17. HE WORKED FOR BROWARD COUNTY, FLORIDA. THE THREE OF THEM LIVED WITH US, HIS PARENTS, SINCE APPROXIMATELY 1996. THE CHILDREN STILL DO. THEIR MOTHER, HIS EX WIFE HAS SINCE REMARRIED. THE CHILDREN HAVE NO INTEREST IN STAYI...
07/06/2009 | Category: Wills and Es... » Small Estates | State: Florida | #17357How Do I Locate the Contents of the Will of My Mother?
How do I find my mothers last will and what assets are to be divided?
07/06/2009 | Category: Wills and Estates | State: Arizona | #17356How Do I Avoid Eviction in Arizona is I have been served with eviction papers?
I live in a house in Arizona where our signed lease agreement went out last April. We have been paying rent since then without signing a new lease. My wife was involved in a car accident on May 15, taken to an emergency room, missed 2 days of work, and so on. We had to pay a $1000 deductible to get our car out of the shop as well as some car rental fee's. So because of this we ...
07/06/2009 | Category: Landlord Ten... » Lease Termin... | State: Arizona | #17355What Are the Requirements for Adverse Possession in California?
In the process of adding onto my property that I have lived in for over 14 years, it was revealed that part of my existing property (bathroom roughly 6 square feet)was encroaching onto my neighbors property. The city I live in will not allow me to continue with my project until this is taken care of. After going down to the records department I discovered that the previous ow...
07/06/2009 | Category: Real Property » Easements | State: California | #17354How to I Stop Garnishment in Florida From Debt of Ex Husband when he is remarried?
I am being garnished for a debt that my ex-husband created prior to our marriage. The company that is garnishing my wages for his medical bills has informed me the bills were started in 1999; we did not get married until 2001. The garnishment was served in his name and my name as his wife. I have been divorced going on 4 years and he is remarried. Our divorce states that he is...
07/06/2009 | Category: Debts and Credit | State: Washington | #17353Is a Parent Required to Consent to Name Change of Minor in Louisiana?
My ex-wife remarried and moved to Louisiana with my son. I live in Washington state. I have found evidence of a last name change for my son with out my consent. Can she do this? It is my son's identity and who he was when he was born. I never divorced my son.
07/05/2009 | Category: Name Change | State: Louisiana | #17339