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Badger of Basra posted:Everything below is in Texas. Did the people who were supposed to get the $100k actually get it? If so, it sounds like the answer is his sister (or, since she's dead, her heirs). I would probably punt it over to the executor of her estate to handle.
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Badger of Basra posted:Everything below is in Texas. How much is the property worth? A probate attorney could probably answer this question pretty quickly, but it depends on whether its worth you paying to find out if you're entitled, or if the probate attorney thinks the state might just give it to you if you claim it
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I would think the estate would make the claim on the property, then it would be distributed to the heirs along with the rest of the estate. If the estate was already closed, then ... I don't know Texas law, but the bank might have to re-open the estate and claim it. I did probate at one time in CA and I never ran into a situation like that, but when there were property or funds that were missed in the original estate, even if it was just a couple hundred dollars, you would have to re-open the estate temporarily to deal with it. ETA: I checked out the unclaimed property website for Texas and it looks like to claim property for a deceased person you would need to be an heir, an executor, a trustee/trust beneficiary, the administrator of the estate or have a power of attorney. They actually have an easy little survey you can go through to see what you would need: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/RJC6F6M Lowly fucked around with this message at 23:35 on Sep 19, 2018 |
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Sep 19, 2018 23:29
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Nice piece of fish posted:No that's the one and the same, you got it right the first time. The law school thread has no more law students and most of us now have jobs. Plus we're all coming to your cabin at some point.
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Sep 20, 2018 02:39
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Landlord/tenant question. Semi hypo, this situation is real but nobody's planning to make it a legal issue. Just curious™ A owns a house. From this house he rents a bedroom and common area access to B. As far as I know there's no lease or paperwork and it's a cash/informal arrangement. B has boyfriend C over. A insists that C can't be in the house, even in B's private bedroom, unless one of them is home. This is a big pain in the rear end as C is visiting from out of town and A and B both leave for work super early. The Question: is this within A's legal rights as a landlord to demand, or are guests in the paid-for bedroom none of his business? E: Oregon Javid fucked around with this message at 03:37 on Sep 20, 2018 |
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Sep 20, 2018 03:34
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It’s effectively a month to month lease. If the landlord doesn’t like it, he can terminate on 30 (maybe 15) days notice. The tenant has a right to privacy in areas exclusive to him. So the boyfriend could stay in the bedroom but not the common area.
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Sep 20, 2018 03:43
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Can A require B to pay a boyfriend deposit equivalent to the value of the house and A's property in the house?
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Sep 20, 2018 03:48
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Javid posted:Landlord/tenant question. Semi hypo, this situation is real but nobody's planning to make it a legal issue. Just curious™ From Oregon Statutes, on Temporary Occupancy Agreements: https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/ors/ors090.html Not a lawyer, but it seems like the benefit of this agreement is that it memorializes that the guest is not a tenant, and would ordinarily ensure that the guest would comply with the terms of your lease (but you don't have a lease). Oregon doesn't seem to differentiate any rules for owner-occupied rentals. If you allow the boyfriend to stay on for a period, does he become a tenant? Since you don't have a lease, maybe? The same page defines that a tenant is not a guest or temporary occupant - but since you don't have a lease listing the tenants, who's to say? quote:90.275 Temporary occupancy agreement; terms and conditions. (1) As provided under this section, a landlord may allow an individual to become a temporary occupant of the tenant’s dwelling unit. To create a temporary occupancy, the landlord, tenant and proposed temporary occupant must enter into a written temporary occupancy agreement that describes the temporary occupancy relationship.
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Sep 20, 2018 13:08
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are there any cheapo diploma mill aba accredited online law schools?
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Sep 20, 2018 18:00
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I’m not aware of any online accredited law schools
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Sep 20, 2018 18:05
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Doorknob Slobber posted:are there any cheapo diploma mill aba accredited online law schools? Diploma mills are usually not cheap for any degree at any level -- they can charge whatever they want, since people who go there usually don't have any other choice. Mitchell Hamline has a hybrid program, which is mostly online, but still requires you to be on campus for about a week each semester.
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euphronius posted:I’m not aware of any online accredited law schools Won't happen either, since part of the ABA scoring process is evaluating the quality of a school's physical law library.
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Sep 20, 2018 18:28
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ulmont posted:Won't happen either, since part of the ABA scoring process is evaluating the quality of a school's physical law library. Oh that's easy, it's at 6000 Enterprise Avenue, Schertz, TX 78154
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Sep 20, 2018 18:32
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ulmont posted:Won't happen either, since part of the ABA scoring process is evaluating the quality of a school's physical law library. Looks like they are trying hybrid programs at schools that already have traditional programs
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euphronius posted:Looks like they are trying hybrid programs at schools that already have traditional programs thats cool at least.
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I've definitely had clients be able to get restraining orders on abusers who made threats of putting spells on them and poo poo. It was part of an overall pattern of harassment however. I think the clincher in that case was the opposing party starting to chant and make hand motions in court, of course.
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Sep 20, 2018 20:19
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Eminent Domain posted:I think the clincher in that case was the opposing party starting to chant and make hand motions in court, of course. Actually, I was able to find a courtroom sketch from proceedings: 
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Eminent Domain posted:I've definitely had clients be able to get restraining orders on abusers who made threats of putting spells on them and poo poo. It was part of an overall pattern of harassment however. That owns
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Doorknob Slobber posted:are there any cheapo diploma mill aba accredited online law schools? Not online (as far as I know), but there are plenty of bottom tier accredited law schools with terrible job placement stats. They basically prey on people lured by the myth of lawyerly prestige, but who couldn't get into a better school. Not sure if that counts as a "mill" though. The punchline is that they're not cheapo. They cost about as much as other law schools.
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I'm on mobile right now but somebody post the "University of American Samoa?!?" rant from Better Call Saul
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incogneato posted:Not online (as far as I know), but there are plenty of bottom tier accredited law schools with terrible job placement stats. They basically prey on people lured by the myth of lawyerly prestige, but who couldn't get into a better school. Not sure if that counts as a "mill" though. Its too bad. I only have three options in my state, not that I particularly want to be a lawyer. I mainly want to learn about law and not be a lawyer. So I signed up for a paralegal program at a (probably) lovely online school that I can attend for free through a union my spouse belongs to. essentially I wanted to see how far and for how cheap I could take this Doorknob Slobber fucked around with this message at 01:56 on Sep 21, 2018 |
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Sep 21, 2018 01:52
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Javid posted:I'm on mobile right now but somebody post the "University of American Samoa?!?" rant from Better Call Saul Go land crabs
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In some states, you don't even need a law degree - you can be an apprentice under a lawyer (assuming you can get one to agree to that) and pass the bar exam and *boom*, lawyer. I hear it's actually very difficult to do this.
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I'm in the process of writing my will based on a boilerplate I found online for my state. If I'm trying to leave the money in a bank account to a relative, how much information about the account do I need to include? Would the name of the bank and the last four digits of the account number be good enough?
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Sep 21, 2018 16:43
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kedo posted:I'm in the process of writing my will based on a boilerplate I found online for my state. If I'm trying to leave the money in a bank account to a relative, how much information about the account do I need to include? Would the name of the bank and the last four digits of the account number be good enough? Come on, man.
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Learning how to be a paralegal won’t teach you anything or very little about “law”.
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kedo posted:I'm in the process of writing my will based on a boilerplate I found online for my state. If I'm trying to leave the money in a bank account to a relative, how much information about the account do I need to include? Would the name of the bank and the last four digits of the account number be good enough? - Do you have relatives who would fight over the money? - Is it more than a few thousand dollars? - Are you married? - Do you have children? If the answer to any of these is potentially "yes" then just go pay some goober lawyer the $500 to write it up. If you have questions about a PoD bank account, go talk to a branch manager.
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euphronius posted:Come on, man. Huh? blarzgh posted:- Do you have relatives who would fight over the money? Gotcha. I'm mainly using a boilerplate on the advice from my parents whose lawyer apparently suggested they didn't need him to write their wills and that a boilerplate would do.  Thanks!
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euphronius posted:Learning how to be a paralegal won’t teach you anything or very little about “law”. I doubt that, I learned a ton about law and using it to my advantage when I was a process server. It led to me taking a landlord to small claims, winning a settlement against a debt collector and getting a few other landlords to gently caress off with their illegal garbage. And I essentially learned all that from just reading the summonses/complaints/letters of demand law firms were sending all over the place. Doorknob Slobber fucked around with this message at 17:05 on Sep 21, 2018 |
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Doorknob Slobber posted:I doubt that, I learned a ton about law and using it to my advantage when I was a process server. It led to me taking a landlord to small claims, winning a settlement against a debt collector and getting a few other landlords to gently caress off with their illegal garbage. And I essentially learned all that from just reading the summonses/complaints/letters of demand law firms were sending all over the place. Get this guy a bar number!
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Process server AND small claims. That’s like half of the bar exam right there.
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therobit posted:Get this guy a bar number! I mean, (as far as I can tell) paralegals do everything attorneys do except directly represent someone in court. In my experience they're the ones doing 99% of the 'work'. They seem to be writing most of the stuff that gets filed and where it gets filed. I get that people who ARE attorneys are probably intimidated by that, but I worked directly with both attorneys and paralegals and usually the paralegals understood far more of what was going on with anything at any given time than an attorney does. A lot of attorneys didn't even know what constitutes legal service it was madness sometimes working with them.
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euphronius posted:Learning how to be a paralegal won’t teach you anything or very little about “law”. It’ll teach you very little about “law”, but a bunch about law as practiced.
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Doorknob Slobber posted:I mean, (as far as I can tell) paralegals do everything attorneys do except directly represent someone in court. In my experience they're the ones doing 99% of the 'work'. They seem to be writing most of the stuff that gets filed and where it gets filed. I get that people who ARE attorneys are probably intimidated by that, but I worked directly with both attorneys and paralegals and usually the paralegals understood far more of what was going on with anything at any given time than an attorney does. A lot of attorneys didn't even know what constitutes legal service it was madness sometimes working with them. In my experience the only significant difference between an attorney and a paralegal is how much money their respective parents had to pay for schooling.
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euphronius posted:Process server AND small claims. That’s like half of the bar exam right there. You are tasked with serving fifteen people in a 30-block radius. How many hours do you have to falsify in your records, after throwing all fifteen services down a storm drain inlet? a) 1 Hour b) 4 Hours c) 8 Hours d) Throw your records down the inlet too
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:In my experience the only significant difference between an attorney and a paralegal is how much money their respective parents had to pay for schooling. Paralegals can’t write substantial pleadings, motions or briefs or argue in court. I suppose the best of them can compose discovery documents.
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Doorknob Slobber posted:I doubt that, I learned a ton about law and using it to my advantage when I was a process server. It led to me taking a landlord to small claims, winning a settlement against a debt collector and getting a few other landlords to gently caress off with their illegal garbage. And I essentially learned all that from just reading the summonses/complaints/letters of demand law firms were sending all over the place. This is my new favourite post in the thread.
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euphronius posted:Paralegals can’t write substantial pleadings, motions or briefs or argue in court. I suppose the best of them can compose discovery documents. There's legally can't and there's mentally can't. I"ve known plenty of practicing attorneys who were barely capable of breathing without their paralegals pressing rhtymically on their chests.
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euphronius posted:Paralegals can’t write substantial pleadings, motions or briefs or argue in court. Are you sure this isn't different per state? Everything I've read and experienced essentially says the only part of your statement that is true is 'argue in court'.
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Doorknob Slobber posted:Are you sure this isn't different per state? Everything I've read and experienced essentially says the only part of your statement that is true is 'argue in court'. Try it and report back. Edit Better yet post one of your briefs here and let me see if it is up to snuff
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