Legal Questions and Answers
What is the legal age for a child to stay at home alone?
What is the legal age for a child to stay at home alone. My girlfriend and I are concerned about another friend and her son who is 10 years old being left home alone.
11/02/2007 | Category: Minors | State: Wisconsin | #11500What are the requirements to become emancipated?
I am fifteen years old. My father has a past of abusing my mother and I, yet he does not do it on a regular basis. He displays emotional abuse on a regular basis, severely beats my mother once or twice a year, and sometimes hits me during his fits of anger. He abuses steroids, and has bi polar, and anger problems due to an abusive childhood of his own. Do I have a case to get e...
11/02/2007 | Category: Minors » Emancipation... | State: North Carolina | #11498What is the sentence for tresspassing?
My husband got a court summons for tresspassing a misdemenor B. What might the sentence be?
11/02/2007 | Category: Criminal » Sentences | State: Missouri | #11495What is the definition for felony child abuse, neglect, endangerment?
What is the definition for felony child abuse, neglect, endangerment?
11/02/2007 | Category: Courts » Legal Defini... | State: California | #11494Is it possible to prove an assault was committed even if you can't see any bruises?
Is it possible to prove an assault was committed even if you can't see any bruises? Could it be possible to find something with an x-ray to prove an assault was committed?
11/02/2007 | Category: Criminal » Assault | State: Pennsylvania | #11493How do I file a response to a complaint and notice of Lis Pendens?
I was served with a legal summons with a complaint and notice of Lis Pendens. I need to file a response, can't afford an attorney and need to know what the appropriate response is to file.
11/02/2007 | Category: Courts » Pleadings | State: Florida | #11491Is it legal to sue the landlord for repayment of rent due to destruction of private property?
Is an agreement to pay rent enforceable if both parties don't agree,but one party is forced to pay due to threat of domestic violence and the threat of becoming homeless if payment isn't forthcoming? Isn't true that the threat to destroy more private property if rent isn't paid an act of exhortion? Is it legal to sue the landlord for repayment of rent due to destruction of pr...
11/02/2007 | Category: Landlord Tenant | State: Pennsylvania | #11490What are the possiblities of having a federal criminal offense expunged from one's record?
What are the possiblities of having a federal criminal offense expunged from one's record? The offense in question, would be "Possession of LSD" where the federal conviction was in the state of Kentucky in 6/1999. What is the recourse for alleviating this matter?
11/02/2007 | Category: Criminal » Expungement ... | State: Kentucky | #11489What are the requirements for an annulment and can I file it myself?
I am 28 weeks pregnant and I need to get a divorce. I am one week shy of getting an annulment married in may of 2007. My current husband did not disclose his mental illness and it has been the conduit for his abuse of alcohol, meth. Not to mention the verbal and physical abuse. He is out of my apt. and I wish to resolve this before my child is born.
11/02/2007 | Category: Divorce » Annulment | State: California | #11484Can the landlord increase the rent in the middle of the lease?
I live in apt in Oklahoma City. I have a 2 yr lease with 9 months left. The lease expires 7-30-07. I received a note on my door last night that my lease is being resigned and the rent is increasing 12-1-07 due to the cost of maintaining the property. Can the apt management do this?
11/02/2007 | Category: Landlord Tenant | State: Oklahoma | #11478