Trapick posted:

Edit: also, by that law above, I'd be a bit more worried about the abortion providers, no?

BonerGhost posted:

This is only legal-adjacent, I think, but are there any Californians with experience in keeping a landlord off your back to have an emotional support animal when pets aren't otherwise allowed? I'd happily pay an extra deposit, but they don't want to give that option despite the clear signs of one or multiple cats in here previously so I don't really care.

I'm willing to pay a certificate mill if that's what it takes, but if that doesn't help or isn't necessary, that would be great to know beforehand.

E: for the record I do have diagnosed emotional/mental disabilities as recognized by ADA and CA law

Arcturas posted:

Can you get charged with illegally performing an abortion if you shoot and kill a pregnant woman to stop her from getting an abortion?

BigHead posted:

Try the actual California bar association website. I just googled "california bar association referral" and the first link at calbar.ca.gov lets you pick a county and has a thousand 1-800 numbers. Try that, and if that doesn't work come back and let us know.

Javid posted:

To clarify, has your landlord refused to let you pay a pet deposit or stated they would not allow an ESA? The only requirement is that you have a letter from a doctor stating you need an ESA, and that you give a copy of that letter to your landlord. An ESA is not a pet, and they have no ability to charge you a deposit for it, or refuse to permit it based on pet rules.

Google has the following for california specifically: https://www.dfeh.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/32/2022/04/EmotionalSupportAnimalsandFairHousingLawFAQ_ENG.pdf

Arcturas posted:

Can you get charged with illegally performing an abortion if you shoot and kill a pregnant woman to stop her from getting an abortion?

Thomamelas posted:

I have a dumb question for some writing I am doing. What keeps lawyers from discussing cases under NDA? Is it in the NDA itself, or is part of the Rules of Professional Conduct? I'm guessing the later but I'd like to be sure.

ulmont posted:

Whether a case is under NDA is mostly irrelevant as to what a lawyer can say about it.

Look at model rule of professional conduct 1.6: https://www.americanbar.org/groups/...of_information/

Note that that has nothing to do with any existing agreements between a party and another party.

Arsenic Lupin posted:

Ironically, their site doesn't let you select lawyers specifying in real estate. See the dropdowns here. https://apps.calbar.ca.gov/members/ls_search.aspx Apparently California doesn't certify real estate lawyers?

They recommend "certified referral services", but I note that part of the service provided is that the lawyer has to give you a discounted rate on the first visit, which I suspect may weed out the more successful lawyers who don't have to. https://www.calbar.ca.gov/Public/Need-Legal-Help/Using-a-Certified-Lawyer-Referral-Service Thoughts?

e: None of the services they list for my county, Mendocino, is actually in Mendocino. One's in LA, two in Berkeley, one in South San Francisco; all offer services to all counties. https://www.calbar.ca.gov/Public/Ne...-Area#mendocino

BonerGhost posted:

That link is really helpful, thank you. All the results I could find were from certificate mills and various similar sources so I was having a hard time getting legitimate info about requirements.

I haven't broached the subject of a pet with them, but the lease says no pets except for ESAs. It's a management company and no employee so far has displayed any ability to exercise judgement or act with basic courtesy, so I expect they'll demand a letter. If it can come from my regular doctor as this document indicates, I shouldn't have much problem getting that.

I think the likelihood of them finding out or actually caring about a pet is low, but the consequences would be bad, so we need to keep it above board if I'm to have critters (even though the house reeks of cat piss already).

Javid posted:

I wouldn't regard it as "demanding" a letter; the letter is what legally differentiates your ESA from a random pet, so getting it is just the process of proving that to them. But that's what you should expect, yeah.

What I WOULD do is just ask them tomorrow what kind of paperwork they want for an ESA. This is federal law, if they own a lot of properties you will be the tenth person this year to ask that person that question; I bet they just have a form you can fill out and have the doctor sign, but if not it'll just be a letter which will ALSO probably be the tenth one your doctor has written recently. Once they have that on file you're good; it doesn't apply to any one specific pet, since they don't have to be trained or anything, it's just a "this animal is not a pet" pass for whatever ESA you end up with.

I have personally gone through this process with a big faceless apartment-corp in a state that touches California, and it was literally just giving them the paper. They don't care past that.

Trapick posted:

Edit: also, by that law above, I'd be a bit more worried about the abortion providers, no?

Trapick posted:

My in-laws have a couple small pieces of property they bought ~30 years ago, with the intention of giving to my wife and her sister eventually to use for a cabin or whatever (small rural island).

My wife wants to get this moving, since we now have a tiny cabin on one of the lots, and her dad's health is going downhill and having this in the estate seems potentially complicated. Am I correct that we want basically any lawyer that does conveyances, and that it should be a pretty simple (and not very expensive) thing? The in-laws are on board, they just don't want to deal with it.

Phil Moscowitz posted:

Nah, generally defense of human life trumps defense of property

Grip it and rip it posted:

were you charged 66 dollars or 65 and change?

SkunkDuster posted:

I'm not going to make a fuss over 68 cents

evilweasel posted:

"it depends"

you could have an explicit policy that all totals are rounded up to the nearest dollar and then that's just the price, with a sub-$1 "we don't like pennies" fee added, this whole thing is incredibly fact-dependent

plus there are also answers like "your card has a feature that rounds up all bills and dumps the change into a savings account/sends it to charity"

honda whisperer posted:

SkunkDuster posted:

UNFAIR STABBING, ILLEGAL SHOES, MUSIC TOO CANADIAN

Kazinsal posted:

blasting Nickelback.

bird with big dick posted:

As I said, I know they don't have precise answers but I do believe they have ranges of what's reasonable especially when you look at all the specifics of the actual case. She knows my doctors and injuries and insurance and individual circumstances and parties involved. These questions aren't coming out of the ether with no context. She's been my lawyer for 2 years.

If your clients aren't getting information and advice on settlement and judgment and medical bill amounts from you that means they're either not getting it at all which means you're expecting them to make decisions in a void or it means they're getting it from the internet. Is that really what lawyers want for their clients?

I have never expected or asked for hand holding or monthly (or quarterly or even annually) updates on whats happening with the case because I know most of the time the answer is nothing, and I've obviously never gotten anything like that, but when there's a major development in the case I expect 1. to be notified promptly not a week later when I specifically ask about it and 2. more than a one sentence email explaining about it, half of which is "I don't know." And I only got that after I inquired about it, apparently if I hadn't I would have gotten literally nothing.

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My grandpa is in his late 80s and for almost 50 years his yard was his absolute price and joy. My grandma died shortly after giving birth to my mom and my grandpa maintained the yard as a tribute to her. He can’t do it anymore so we help out whwre we can.

His original neighbor had a willow tree that the trimmed in such a way that the seed pods and leaves would not fall on my grandpas property. A younger couple bought the house a few years ago to turn into an Airbnb and they let let the tree just grow. The leaves and sees pods then blew into my grandpas yard creating a huge mess.

This would lead my grandpa to get into these huge finks because he couldn’t go out and clean it up. I tried to have a conversation with the owners about hiring a landscaper, they would know what to do as my grandpa and his previous neighbor had a system that worked for 20 years.

How to put this, they are very uppity people who don’t give a crap about the character of the neighborhood and they said the tree photographs well the way it is for their Airbnb ads. I emailed them and Airbnb to see if we could come up with a solution. They refused and told me to stop bothering them.

I decided to take it into my own hands I went and cut down the tree. I waited for a time when I was able to talk to an bathroom remodels who said he would be there for 7 days—no Airbnb guests. I basically blended in with the other workers and brought that piece of crap down. Th stump is a total hack job and looks bad but I did remove all the wood and we’ll use it for campfires this year at mountain bike races.

My sister and cousins think I opened up a huge can of worms that we all will deal with and have called me rear end in a top hat among other things. But so far there’s no fall out.

AITA ?

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I decided to take it into my own hands