Legal Questions and Answers
What are the requirements for emancipation?
My daughter has a friend who needs to leave her house. Her mother is bipoler and one minute her mother wants her to quit school and get a full time job and get pregnant. The next minute she wants her around the house all the time. Anything this girl does is not right in her mother's eyes. The girl will turn 17 on December 7. We want her to do things the right way but she i...
11/15/2007 | Category: Minors » Emancipation... | State: Georgia | #12340What can I sue for in small claims court?
What can I sue for in small claims court?
11/15/2007 | Category: Small Claims | State: Arizona | #12328What is the legal amount a landlord can charge for a late fee?
I am a single parent of four children, three that are under the age of three. I am dealing with a landlord that changes the rules on a daily basis. I had worked out an arrangement with her to pay the rent in two payment, due to my pay schedule. Per the lease, the late fee for rent paid after the tenth of the month was to be ten dollars. She is charging me forty dollars on top o...
11/15/2007 | Category: Landlord Tenant | State: Indiana | #12326What is the sentence for leaving the scene of an accident where damages only were involved?
My daughter received a ticket for leaving the scene of an accident when the night before she accidentally backed into a car in a parking lot, and didn't think there was damage and left. We received a letter from the county stating that we should disregard the ticket time/date and report at a different time for her arraignment. What are the possible penalties for this ticket? ...
11/15/2007 | Category: Criminal » Speedy Trial | State: Minnesota | #12322Can self defense be used to justify an assault?
If you are invited into someones home and while your there a person is confronted on a burglary he did and retaleates by pulling a gun, in turn my boyfriend hits him in the head with a flashlight out of fear of my life. What kind of grounds can he base his self defense on when the courts turn it into aggravated assault?
11/15/2007 | Category: Criminal » Assault | State: Arizona | #12319How do I get my record expunged for something I did years ago as a minor?
How do I get my record expunged for something I did years ago as a minor?
11/15/2007 | Category: Criminal » Expungement ... | State: Missouri | #12318Can I Make a Counter Claim Against former Landlord and Appeal Charges for Rent and Damages
I was recently sued by my former landlord for back rent and damages and he did win in small claims court. I want to know if I have any right to appeal based on damage charges not being given to me until ten months after I vacated the premises and the fact that I only received credit from the security deposit once mentioned in court proceedings. I would like to appeal and also...
11/15/2007 | Category: Landlord Ten... » Residential ... | State: Wisconsin | #12288New Jersey Sentencing Guidelines for Charges of Terroristic Threat
I need to know the New Jersey sentencing guidelines for terroristic threats. My sister lives in Arizona and was just notified over the phone by a police officer in New Jersey that she was being charged with terroristic threats due to a phone call that was supposedly made from Arizona to a New Jersey resident. Could you please give me as much detail on this charge as possible?
11/15/2007 | Category: Criminal | State: New Jersey | #12286Can a perspective employer discriminate against a recovering alcoholic if the question is asked, "have you been treated for a...
Can a perspective employer discriminate against a recovering alcoholic if the question is asked, "have you been treated for a drug or alcoholism problem?"
11/14/2007 | Category: Employment | State: Florida | #12278I'M NOT SURE WHO MY LANDLORD IS. THE MAN WHOM I PAY MY RENT TO IS A MAN WHO TELLS US THAT HE IS THE MANAGER. THE ONE ISSUE IS...
I'M NOT SURE WHO MY LANDLORD IS. THE MAN WHOM I PAY MY RENT TO IS A MAN WHO TELLS US THAT HE IS THE MANAGER. THE ONE ISSUE IS THAT MY CEILING IS LEAKING NOW FOR SEVERAL MONTHS. THE WASHROOM HAS NO SINK BECAUSE THEY CAME AND TOOK IT OUT ABOUT A MONTH AGO. NOW, MY WINDOWS ARE FALLING OUT, BUT HE WANTS ME TO PAY HIM RENT. I INFORMED HIM THAT I WILL NOT PAY HIM RENT UNTIL THESE PRO...
11/14/2007 | Category: Landlord Ten... » Repairs | State: Illinois | #12269