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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
The following is a pre recorded program. Now, let me
tell you what's going on in Texas. Oh man.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
We have two things happening now, well three things. A
new administration kicking in. We have a Supreme Court that
is insanely conservative now it has switched completely.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
And we have very conservative.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
State legislatures where evangelicals and hugely religious folks read Christians
in this case, have gotten more influence in schools than
you could ever imagine. So Texas is voting on a
new public school curriculum statewide then incorporates stories from the Bible.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Into elementary school teachings.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
The Bible will be part of the school curriculum and
not the study of the Bible as a separate Bible course.
I did that when I was in junior high school,
and it was not religious.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
It was literature and historical.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Because it's the most influential book that's ever been published
in mankind's history.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
So it was no religious stuff. This is religious stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
This is the Bible, this is Jesus, this is Christianity
New Testament, I might add, And the material was written
by the Texas Education Agency, and this is a body
overseeing public school education and.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Is headed by the Texas Commissioner of Education. By the way,
this is for.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Grades K through five, and ah, this is a tough one.
Governor Gray Gabbott, of course, has voiced his support. And
it is tough where he said, it allows to better
understand students the connection of history, art, community, literature, okay,
fair enough, and religion on pivotal events like the signing
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of the US Constitution, the Civil Rights movement, and the
American Revolution.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
I got news for you.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
The Bible had nothing to do with the signing of
the US Constitution. There is no religion in the US Constitution.
Purposely the civil rights movement. You know, a lot of
Jews were marching in the Civil rights movement. I didn't
hear a lot of Jesus wants Jews to march with
us and the American Revolution. You know, the founding fathers
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were deists. They believe in God, but that's where it stopped.
And by the way, the Constitution has not a word
about God. Now, the Declaration of Independence does, but it's
a mention of God in terms of the rights of
man in the United States, the rights of citizens. So
you know, we're in a whole new world. Of course,
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they're going to go to the courts. Supreme Court is
probably going to hear that. However, the Supreme Court is
really in favor of religious freedom, and they rather have
religious freedom than the separation of church and state. I
think that's what's going to happen. That's my guests don't
know if that's a fact, because I'm not sitting on
the court, and I'm not a court pundit. Matter of fact,
I'm not a pundit of much of anything. Federal judge
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this month blocked a Louisiana law that would have required
the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public school room.
In Oklahoma, teachers and parents filed a lawsuit to stop
the state's top education official from enforcing the same thing
about the Ten Commandments. Oh Texas also has allowed public
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schools to hire uncertified religious chaplains as counselors. We're not
talking about counselors that have some training in the schools
that are certified teachers have their teachers licenses. No uncertified
chaplains are going to be counselors. I've said this many
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many times. We are in for such a ride. Number
eight hundred five two zero one five three four And
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This is Handle on the Law. This is Handle on
the Law Marginal.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Legal advice where I tell you, whoever you are, you
have absolutely no case.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
That's on a good phone call the rotten phone calls.
Yeah you got a case.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Yeah, unfortunately, Yeah, you have a good case. So welcome
to the show. If you've never been, if you've never listened.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Before, Karen, Hi, Karen, welcome to Handle on the Law.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Hi.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Question for you?
Speaker 5 (05:45):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Family. The mother died. Oh nice, that's the minors.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
Well happens.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Mother died left a minor child and an adult child,
but nothing in writing taking care of these the girl
the sister took the child, never enrolled her in school.
She's now nine years old. This was a boyfriend and
another couple in a one bedroom apartment. I've suggested consulting
with an attorney, but they've done nothing. Can I give
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them your number?
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Well no, because I'm not gonna be able to do
anything unless they want to listen to the show and
I'll tell them, you know, I'll give him marginal legal advice. No,
but I will talk a little bit about the law
and what they're doing. And they're violating the law big time.
It's criminal violations what they're doing. And it's not a
lawyer that should be involved, should be the district attorney. Now,
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is the sister the only aunt that this child has?
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Are this is the sister of the child?
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Oh she's living with the sister of the child. Yeah,
but not in school?
Speaker 2 (06:56):
You know what, I call the authorities on that, because
what what she is, it's a facto a parent. She's
taken the child even without which can happen all the time.
I mean, you know, brother, sisters can take kids and
they don't have to go to court if no one's
contesting it. But not putting the kid in school, that
is a violation big time. So you go to uh,
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you go to the DA, or you go to that's
what I would do, or even call the school board.
They'll they'll tell you where to go. Yeah, that one's
a no no. And you don't need a lawyer for that,
and you certainly don't need me.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Do I give them your number?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
What the hell are okay, sure, eight hundred and five
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Speaker 1 (07:34):
Can call in.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
People are very strange and they for some reason they
want to retain me, and I wouldn't retain me.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Is very hard.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Oh all right, Nash, Hello, Nash, welcome.
Speaker 7 (07:49):
Good morning, mister Handel.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Yes, sir, what can I do for you?
Speaker 6 (07:51):
Now here?
Speaker 7 (07:53):
The second time Harry call you a date on my case.
We went to a setiment conference and my lawyer had
told me two days before everything looks good, are settlements
should go through, and I'll give me a call the
next day. Never did found out that the case is
now going to trial. I'm trying to figure out what
happens next.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Is my.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
You got a trial?
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Obviously there was no settlement. However, let me ask something.
Had you already agreed to the number? Have you agreed
to the settle?
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Do you agree to the settlement figure?
Speaker 3 (08:26):
No?
Speaker 7 (08:26):
I was never informed.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Okay, then there was then there was nothing there.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Then it's as if the mediation didn't occur because your
lawyer has to tell you do you agree to this
number or the insurance company agrees to that number. I mean,
that's what mediation is all about. And if there isn't
an agreement, then there's no agreement. So it's are you
the one that's suing.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Nash? Are you suing? Yes, sir? Okay, So here's what happens.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
You have you know, the other side of saying no,
I don't want to settle, Let's go to trial, all right,
Then go to trial.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
You don't have much of a choice.
Speaker 7 (09:05):
So that's what happens next.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Now here's the problem.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
If you're a lawyer not telling you that, that's problematic. Yeah,
you wonder what that's a red flag that you're a
lawyer not telling you how much money? How much money
are you asking for?
Speaker 7 (09:20):
Nash?
Speaker 1 (09:22):
I haven't asked for a penny? Well, then what are
you settling? What's what's the settling agreement about?
Speaker 7 (09:28):
That's what I was trying to give from mind. What
do you what do you want a new lifestyle?
Speaker 1 (09:35):
I'm just kidding.
Speaker 7 (09:35):
No, I just I just want this to be over,
to be honest.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Okay. Well, then then dismissed the case. Then walk away.
They just dismissed it. I'm done. I don't want to
deal with it anymore. People do that, or you can
go to another lawyer. Yeah, call your lawyer and I'll
tell you what you can also do.
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Speaker 2 (12:00):
Who is Marginal Legal Advice. Okay, Sean, you're up.
Speaker 6 (12:05):
Hi, Bill, I had a question about commingling funds. Yep,
when you get an inheritance. Okay, So let's say I
my family goes on a vacation and I need some
of the money for my inheritance to pay the vacation.
Is that consider like comingling funds?
Speaker 2 (12:20):
No, No, Commingling funds is actually buying something and putting
it in both names, or putting money into a bank account.
That's commingling funds to the extent that the money that
you put in paying for a vacation out of your
own separate property, which is inheritance money, is your separate property.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
All right. So you have a relative that.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Dies and you've been treating that relative well, bad mouthing them,
but they don't know that.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
So they leave you fifty thousand dollars. That's your money.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
And if you want to pay for a vacation out
of your money, that's fine. You're not commingly anything. Just
don't don't take that fifty thousand dollars and put it
into a joint account. That's commingle.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
They like my wife and I decide to buy a car,
and I use some of that money to buy a car.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
It depends on what where's the is the title going
to be in?
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Whose name?
Speaker 6 (13:17):
Probably both?
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Yeah, that's commingling.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
Okay, So just just don't know my name. Yeah, yeah,
I haven't done anything, okay, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Just keep it any just keep anything that comes out
of your inheritance keeping your name.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
So buy a separate car credit card and just pay
pay things.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
No, no, if you want to know, you can have
joint you can have joint credit cards, and you can
pay whatever you want out of your account, separate account.
That is not commingling. You're just paying whatever you want
to pay from your money.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Just think of it this way.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
This is your money that you've inherited, and as long
as you keep it separately, it's always your money. Don't
put any Okay, that's how you have to think about it,
and you can pay whatever you want.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
You can buyer a car. You've ben both own a car.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
And you put in your money and then you put in,
for example, your separate money and maybe money from the community.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Now the car becomes both of yours.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Your money still stays your money in the account that
you're holding onto.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Oh okay, okay, that's how you do it. Yeah, Comingley,
you don't want Yeah, don't do that.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
You know, if you inherit some money and you know
all but I love her bill, it doesn't matter, it
doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Just keep your money separate.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
You know it's uh because you know relationships fall apart
and a lot of pressure, especially if there's a lot
of money. Honey, why don't we put in the joint account?
Absolutely not, Carrie Hi carry fine, yes, ma'am.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Okay, so excuse me. I got married in two thousand
and five on purpose. We had two kids. Okay, yeah,
we had two kids. We ended up buying a house
in twenty eleven when the market was, you know, extremely good. Basically,
the equity in our house has like quadrupled. We split
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in twenty seventeen, and he wants half of the equity
in the house to divorce me. Okay, he's gone. He
left like a month after split in twenty seventeen.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Okay, do I owe him money?
Speaker 1 (15:30):
You bet? You own half the house. Of course, you
bought the house together.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Any payments doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
It doesn't matter because here is there unless you have
a separate agreement that says that he is going to pay.
At this point, you have joint ownership of a house.
I'm assuming it's joint tenancy.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Right, Kerry.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Well, well yeah, his name is on it.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
But right, okay, so you own it and he okay,
so you own it and he owns it together.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
So each of you.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
You own It's not you own half of you you
own half of the entire amount.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
So it's a joint tennessee. Is really interesting.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
And if he dies, you get the entire house if
you die, if you die, he gets the entire house,
which is a really good reason because I'm going to
end this conversation with advice, you're better off killing him
than doing anything else.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Because you're going to own the house.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
So what you have is he owns it, you own it,
and you've been living in it. You've been making the payments.
But assuming that you weren't living in it, you still
have to live someplace. So the court does not give
you a whole lot of credit for living in it,
because you'd have to live in it anyway. So the
bottom line is he owns half, you own half, and
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there's no way around it.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
You got to split it up. I know you don't
want to hear that, but you gotta split it up. Oh,
it's terrible, I know that.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
See they're there because of joint tennessee. That's why I'm
telling here to kill him. Because upon the death of
a joint tenant, the prop pretty automatically goes to the
living or the surviving joint tenant. And it's not even
what you have to do some paperwork, but it's not
asking the court to give you the property. It's simply
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the court the law recognizing that it is your property.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
So joint tennancy. It happens upon operation of death. The
second he dies, right, you stab him or you blow
his brains out or whatever.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
The second they declare him dead, the property is yours.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Does that make sense? You bet it does? All right, Monica,
Welcome to handle on the law. Hi Monica, Oh, I'm.
Speaker 8 (17:40):
So excited to talk.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Oh me too, all right? What can I do for you?
Speaker 8 (17:43):
Yeah? Okay. So I'm a lowly legal assistant for a
southern California lawyer, and so I'd like you to talk
briefly on the California durable power of attorney. And the
reason that I'm asking you this is we get calls
all the time from somebody that will say, oh, my
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eighty five year old aunt, she's starting to get dementia.
I want to get power of attorney over her because
she's spending all her money. And I try to explain
to them you would be the agent, not the person
that's getting the power of attorney. So you don't sign
Jack Cheese, your elderly aunt signs and you don't even
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need to come to the appointment.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
That's correct.
Speaker 8 (18:26):
So can you kind of explain that.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
A little bit, Well, you just explained it. You just
explained it.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
If someone has to give you power of attorney, and
that's the person, that is.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
The person who gives the power of attorney, all right.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
So let's say I choose you to handle my finances,
so I give you power of attorney on the financial
side of it, and I have to know what I'm doing. Now,
if I don't know what I'm doing, let's say I
am severely.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Demented, which some people argue that it's the case.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Then you go to a conservatorship where the person who's
demanded really has no choice. The court makes that determination.
But you got it, You understand completely. You just I
should have called you up and asked you.
Speaker 8 (19:14):
It comes up all the time.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Well, you've answered the question, you've answered it.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
The only thing you have to be a little careful
is not giving legal advice. You have to Yeah, that
is that, and that you want to talk to your
attorney because it's really uh, it is a yeah, it's
a line you don't want to, you can cross.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
You have to be a little careful. What is legal advice.
No one's gonna nail you on that.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
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If you happen to live in chronic pain or you
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It is a podcast and it's.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
About living in and with chronic pain and the trauma
that can cause kN pain. And I really love this
podcast because it's kind of half depraved. And I've known
the host, Lindsay Soprano for years and she deals with
chronic pain twenty four to seven and does it heroically.
I sit back and just watch her do this, and
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it really is something to see. Every episode ends with
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This is handle on the law.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Welcome back, handle on the law. Work advice, Johnny, your turn, Welcome.
What can I do for you? Hey, Bill? I was wondering.
Speaker 7 (20:59):
You're a bartender and you overserve somebody and they get
in trouble.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
How does that come back to you?
Speaker 5 (21:04):
How do you prove that they didn't drink somewhere else.
Speaker 6 (21:06):
Et cetera.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Okay, let me ask you this. Will you get in
trouble as what does that mean? Get in trouble?
Speaker 5 (21:12):
Well, they say, as a bartender, if you overserve somebody,
you're held liable they cause an accident.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Yeah, okay, and that's true. They have to cause an accident.
That's true.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
The law says that a bartender cannot serve someone who
is obviously drunk. And then the problem is is that
I don't know what that means because now they have
to prove that they look drunk. You're not going to
give him a breathalyzer as a bartender, so they have
to put it together.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
He used to be called the dram act. I think that's.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Called That does make the bar responsible for any liability
if someone is hurt someone, For example, the drug driver
goes out and plows into a car hurts someone and
it can all be traced back to the bar where
it was over, where too much booze was sold, and.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Their defenses to that.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
You know, he looked fine with me, and then there
are witnesses. They have to get him. Let's say, say
he killed somebody, and you have, of course the planef's attorney.
Now they're they're asking everybody in the bar, what did
you see?
Speaker 1 (22:14):
How many drinks did you see? Did he appear drunk?
Was he doddering out of there?
Speaker 5 (22:21):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (22:22):
You know, I mean that's how it works. Yeah, it's
not easy to prove. But in the end, well, let
me put it this way, if someone is.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Hurt enough, believe me, they'll be an attorney jumping all
over it.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
You've heard me say that, Go ahead, I.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
Have to hurt somebody further to be any further.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Yeah, yeah, civil suit, Yeah, someone has to hurt.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Now there's criminal violation where a bar cannot serve someone
who is obviously completely drunk. But you know, I mean,
who's gonna complain about that if no one's hurt. So
that's that's the reality of it. Hey, Mark, welcome to
handle on the law.
Speaker 6 (23:01):
Hi? Yeah, Mark, Yes, Hi, thank you.
Speaker 7 (23:04):
For taking my call.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
Sure, so, uh, my girlfriend her mom passed away and
left her and her sister apartment.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
I'm sorry you're cutting out, left her and her sister?
Speaker 6 (23:19):
What and then she hold.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
On wait wait, wait, hold on, you cut out.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
We were at left her and her sister, and then
I lost it.
Speaker 5 (23:28):
After that, there's her apartment complex.
Speaker 7 (23:32):
Okay, got it, and the stepdad was trying to take
it for his okay.
Speaker 9 (23:38):
And so it was left. It wasn't in both of
their names, It's just in a mother's name. And so
supposedly she the mom wrote a will, but that was
thrown out when my girlfriend ejected to the petition for probate.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Okay, So mom, okay, So the mother died right, yes, yes, okay,
and uh her husband died.
Speaker 5 (24:01):
No, No, her husband's still lives.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Okay, but the but the mom owned the property, the
husband had nothing to do with the property, correct, They
got it?
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
So mom writes a will and who she leave the
money to? Who she leaves the property to?
Speaker 6 (24:15):
The stepdad wrote the will five days before she died.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
But how does the stepdad if it's it was if
it's in the mom's name, what does stepdad have to
do with it.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I apologize.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
The husband wrote the will to Okay.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
The husband wrote the will, but he didn't need but
he didn't own the property. It was all the mom, correct, okay,
and your sister.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
And who was the property left to?
Speaker 8 (24:40):
Then?
Speaker 5 (24:41):
My girlfriend? It was it was just name okay, and
she was.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
She attacked the will because the property was left to
someone other than your girlfriend.
Speaker 9 (24:51):
No, because the property is said that it goes to
to them. But then he was trying to get control
of everything.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
But he doesn't know owned the property.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
No, no, he doesn't own the property.
Speaker 7 (25:03):
So they threw the will out.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Why do you throw the will out if it was
left to your girlfriend? Why would if that was the intention,
why would they throw the will out that the mother signed.
Speaker 9 (25:15):
Well, because it was he wrote it and he, you know,
interest in the property.
Speaker 6 (25:20):
Oh so he was a beneficiary, yes, exactly.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Okay, God, all right boy, that was different. All right?
So what what's your question? All right? What's your question?
Speaker 7 (25:31):
How do you get paid?
Speaker 9 (25:33):
Everything's all said and done and said, final distribution and everything.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
How he's not paying my girlfriend? So how do you
get paid?
Speaker 1 (25:39):
What do you mean he's not paying? What is he gonna,
what's he supposed to pay your girlfriend?
Speaker 3 (25:42):
The rent?
Speaker 9 (25:43):
The rent that's been a collect He wait.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
A second, he is collecting the rent. Yes, you sue.
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This is so complicated. Yeah, there's too much there.
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The following is a pre recorded program. Now, let me
tell you what's going on in Texas. Oh man.
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We have two things happening now, well three things. A
new administration kicking in. We have a Supreme Court that
is insanely conservative now it has switched completely.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
And we have very conservative.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
State legislatures where evangelicals and hugely religious folks read Christians
in this case, have gotten more influence in schools than
you could ever imagine. So Texas is voting on a
new public school curriculum statewide then incorporates stories from the Bible.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Into elementary school teachings.
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The Bible will be part of the school curriculum and
not the study of the Bible as a separate Bible course.
I did that when I was in junior high school,
and it was not religious.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
It was literature and historical.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Because it's the most influential book that's ever been published
in mankind's history.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
So it was no religious stuff. This is religious stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
This is the Bible, this is Jesus, this is Christianity
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by the Texas Education Agency, and this is a body
overseeing public school education and.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Is headed by the Texas Commissioner of Education. By the way,
this is for.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Grades K through five, and ah, this is a tough one.
Governor Gray Gabbott, of course, has voiced his support. And
it is tough where he said, it allows to better
understand students the connection of history, art, community, literature, okay,
fair enough, and religion on pivotal events like the signing
(02:18):
of the US Constitution, the Civil Rights movement, and the
American Revolution.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
I got news for you.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
The Bible had nothing to do with the signing of
the US Constitution. There is no religion in the US Constitution.
Purposely the civil rights movement. You know, a lot of
Jews were marching in the Civil rights movement. I didn't
hear a lot of Jesus wants Jews to march with
us and the American Revolution. You know, the founding fathers
(02:46):
were deists. They believe in God, but that's where it stopped.
And by the way, the Constitution has not a word
about God. Now, the Declaration of Independence does, but it's
a mention of God in terms of the rights of
man in the United States, the rights of citizens. So
you know, we're in a whole new world. Of course,
(03:08):
they're going to go to the courts. Supreme Court is
probably going to hear that. However, the Supreme Court is
really in favor of religious freedom, and they rather have
religious freedom than the separation of church and state. I
think that's what's going to happen. That's my guests don't
know if that's a fact, because I'm not sitting on
the court, and I'm not a court pundit. Matter of fact,
I'm not a pundit of much of anything. Federal judge
(03:30):
this month blocked a Louisiana law that would have required
the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public school room.
In Oklahoma, teachers and parents filed a lawsuit to stop
the state's top education official from enforcing the same thing
about the Ten Commandments. Oh Texas also has allowed public
(03:53):
schools to hire uncertified religious chaplains as counselors. We're not
talking about counselors that have some training in the schools
that are certified teachers have their teachers licenses. No uncertified
chaplains are going to be counselors. I've said this many
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Speaker 2 (05:23):
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Speaker 1 (05:28):
That's on a good phone call the rotten phone calls.
Yeah you got a case.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Yeah, unfortunately, Yeah, you have a good case. So welcome
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Speaker 1 (05:39):
Before, Karen, Hi, Karen, welcome to Handle on the Law.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Hi.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Question for you?
Speaker 5 (05:45):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Family. The mother died. Oh nice, that's the minors.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
Well happens.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Mother died left a minor child and an adult child,
but nothing in writing taking care of these the girl
the sister took the child, never enrolled her in school.
She's now nine years old. This was a boyfriend and
another couple in a one bedroom apartment. I've suggested consulting
with an attorney, but they've done nothing. Can I give
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and what they're doing. And they're violating the law big time.
It's criminal violations what they're doing. And it's not a
lawyer that should be involved, should be the district attorney. Now,
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is the sister the only aunt that this child has?
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Are this is the sister of the child?
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Oh she's living with the sister of the child. Yeah,
but not in school?
Speaker 2 (06:56):
You know what, I call the authorities on that, because
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taken the child even without which can happen all the time.
I mean, you know, brother, sisters can take kids and
they don't have to go to court if no one's
contesting it. But not putting the kid in school, that
is a violation big time. So you go to uh,
(07:18):
you go to the DA, or you go to that's
what I would do, or even call the school board.
They'll they'll tell you where to go. Yeah, that one's
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Do I give them your number?
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Speaker 7 (07:49):
Good morning, mister Handel.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Yes, sir, what can I do for you?
Speaker 6 (07:51):
Now here?
Speaker 7 (07:53):
The second time Harry call you a date on my case.
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Speaker 1 (08:14):
You got a trial?
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Obviously there was no settlement. However, let me ask something.
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Speaker 1 (08:23):
Do you agree to the settlement figure?
Speaker 3 (08:26):
No?
Speaker 7 (08:26):
I was never informed.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Okay, then there was then there was nothing there.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Then it's as if the mediation didn't occur because your
lawyer has to tell you do you agree to this
number or the insurance company agrees to that number. I mean,
that's what mediation is all about. And if there isn't
an agreement, then there's no agreement. So it's are you
the one that's suing.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Nash? Are you suing? Yes, sir? Okay, So here's what happens.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
You have you know, the other side of saying no,
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Then go to trial.
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You don't have much of a choice.
Speaker 7 (09:05):
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Now here's the problem.
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If you're a lawyer not telling you that, that's problematic. Yeah,
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Speaker 7 (09:20):
Nash?
Speaker 1 (09:22):
I haven't asked for a penny? Well, then what are
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Speaker 7 (09:28):
That's what I was trying to give from mind. What
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Speaker 1 (09:35):
I'm just kidding.
Speaker 7 (09:35):
No, I just I just want this to be over,
to be honest.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Okay. Well, then then dismissed the case. Then walk away.
They just dismissed it. I'm done. I don't want to
deal with it anymore. People do that, or you can
go to another lawyer. Yeah, call your lawyer and I'll
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Who is Marginal Legal Advice. Okay, Sean, you're up.
Speaker 6 (12:05):
Hi, Bill, I had a question about commingling funds. Yep,
when you get an inheritance. Okay, So let's say I
my family goes on a vacation and I need some
of the money for my inheritance to pay the vacation.
Is that consider like comingling funds?
Speaker 2 (12:20):
No, No, Commingling funds is actually buying something and putting
it in both names, or putting money into a bank account.
That's commingling funds to the extent that the money that
you put in paying for a vacation out of your
own separate property, which is inheritance money, is your separate property.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
All right. So you have a relative that.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Dies and you've been treating that relative well, bad mouthing them,
but they don't know that.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
So they leave you fifty thousand dollars. That's your money.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
And if you want to pay for a vacation out
of your money, that's fine. You're not commingly anything. Just
don't don't take that fifty thousand dollars and put it
into a joint account. That's commingle.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
They like my wife and I decide to buy a car,
and I use some of that money to buy a car.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
It depends on what where's the is the title going
to be in?
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Whose name?
Speaker 6 (13:17):
Probably both?
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Yeah, that's commingling.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
Okay, So just just don't know my name. Yeah, yeah,
I haven't done anything, okay, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Just keep it any just keep anything that comes out
of your inheritance keeping your name.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
So buy a separate car credit card and just pay
pay things.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
No, no, if you want to know, you can have
joint you can have joint credit cards, and you can
pay whatever you want out of your account, separate account.
That is not commingling. You're just paying whatever you want
to pay from your money.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Just think of it this way.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
This is your money that you've inherited, and as long
as you keep it separately, it's always your money. Don't
put any Okay, that's how you have to think about it,
and you can pay whatever you want.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
You can buyer a car. You've ben both own a car.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
And you put in your money and then you put in,
for example, your separate money and maybe money from the community.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Now the car becomes both of yours.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Your money still stays your money in the account that
you're holding onto.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Oh okay, okay, that's how you do it. Yeah, Comingley,
you don't want Yeah, don't do that.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
You know, if you inherit some money and you know
all but I love her bill, it doesn't matter, it
doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Just keep your money separate.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
You know it's uh because you know relationships fall apart
and a lot of pressure, especially if there's a lot
of money. Honey, why don't we put in the joint account?
Absolutely not, Carrie Hi carry fine, yes, ma'am.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Okay, so excuse me. I got married in two thousand
and five on purpose. We had two kids. Okay, yeah,
we had two kids. We ended up buying a house
in twenty eleven when the market was, you know, extremely good. Basically,
the equity in our house has like quadrupled. We split
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in twenty seventeen, and he wants half of the equity
in the house to divorce me. Okay, he's gone. He
left like a month after split in twenty seventeen.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Okay, do I owe him money?
Speaker 1 (15:30):
You bet? You own half the house. Of course, you
bought the house together.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Any payments doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
It doesn't matter because here is there unless you have
a separate agreement that says that he is going to pay.
At this point, you have joint ownership of a house.
I'm assuming it's joint tenancy.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Right, Kerry.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Well, well yeah, his name is on it.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
But right, okay, so you own it and he okay,
so you own it and he owns it together.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
So each of you.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
You own It's not you own half of you you
own half of the entire amount.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
So it's a joint tennessee. Is really interesting.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
And if he dies, you get the entire house if
you die, if you die, he gets the entire house,
which is a really good reason because I'm going to
end this conversation with advice, you're better off killing him
than doing anything else.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Because you're going to own the house.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
So what you have is he owns it, you own it,
and you've been living in it. You've been making the payments.
But assuming that you weren't living in it, you still
have to live someplace. So the court does not give
you a whole lot of credit for living in it,
because you'd have to live in it anyway. So the
bottom line is he owns half, you own half, and
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there's no way around it.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
You got to split it up. I know you don't
want to hear that, but you gotta split it up. Oh,
it's terrible, I know that.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
See they're there because of joint tennessee. That's why I'm
telling here to kill him. Because upon the death of
a joint tenant, the prop pretty automatically goes to the
living or the surviving joint tenant. And it's not even
what you have to do some paperwork, but it's not
asking the court to give you the property. It's simply
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the court the law recognizing that it is your property.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
So joint tennancy. It happens upon operation of death. The
second he dies, right, you stab him or you blow
his brains out or whatever.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
The second they declare him dead, the property is yours.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Does that make sense? You bet it does? All right, Monica,
Welcome to handle on the law. Hi Monica, Oh, I'm.
Speaker 8 (17:40):
So excited to talk.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Oh me too, all right? What can I do for you?
Speaker 8 (17:43):
Yeah? Okay. So I'm a lowly legal assistant for a
southern California lawyer, and so I'd like you to talk
briefly on the California durable power of attorney. And the
reason that I'm asking you this is we get calls
all the time from somebody that will say, oh, my
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eighty five year old aunt, she's starting to get dementia.
I want to get power of attorney over her because
she's spending all her money. And I try to explain
to them you would be the agent, not the person
that's getting the power of attorney. So you don't sign
Jack Cheese, your elderly aunt signs and you don't even
(18:24):
need to come to the appointment.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
That's correct.
Speaker 8 (18:26):
So can you kind of explain that.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
A little bit, Well, you just explained it. You just
explained it.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
If someone has to give you power of attorney, and
that's the person, that is.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
The person who gives the power of attorney, all right.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
So let's say I choose you to handle my finances,
so I give you power of attorney on the financial
side of it, and I have to know what I'm doing. Now,
if I don't know what I'm doing, let's say I
am severely.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Demented, which some people argue that it's the case.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Then you go to a conservatorship where the person who's
demanded really has no choice. The court makes that determination.
But you got it, You understand completely. You just I
should have called you up and asked you.
Speaker 8 (19:14):
It comes up all the time.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Well, you've answered the question, you've answered it.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
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is not giving legal advice. You have to Yeah, that
is that, and that you want to talk to your
attorney because it's really uh, it is a yeah, it's
a line you don't want to, you can cross.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
You have to be a little careful. What is legal advice.
No one's gonna nail you on that.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
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If you happen to live in chronic pain or you
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I sit back and just watch her do this, and
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This is handle on the law.
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Welcome back, handle on the law. Work advice, Johnny, your turn, Welcome.
What can I do for you? Hey, Bill? I was wondering.
Speaker 7 (20:59):
You're a bartender and you overserve somebody and they get
in trouble.
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How does that come back to you?
Speaker 5 (21:04):
How do you prove that they didn't drink somewhere else.
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Et cetera.
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Okay, let me ask you this. Will you get in
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Well, they say, as a bartender, if you overserve somebody,
you're held liable they cause an accident.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Yeah, okay, and that's true. They have to cause an accident.
That's true.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
The law says that a bartender cannot serve someone who
is obviously drunk. And then the problem is is that
I don't know what that means because now they have
to prove that they look drunk. You're not going to
give him a breathalyzer as a bartender, so they have
to put it together.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
He used to be called the dram act. I think that's.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Called That does make the bar responsible for any liability
if someone is hurt someone, For example, the drug driver
goes out and plows into a car hurts someone and
it can all be traced back to the bar where
it was over, where too much booze was sold, and.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Their defenses to that.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
You know, he looked fine with me, and then there
are witnesses. They have to get him. Let's say, say
he killed somebody, and you have, of course the planef's attorney.
Now they're they're asking everybody in the bar, what did
you see?
Speaker 1 (22:14):
How many drinks did you see? Did he appear drunk?
Was he doddering out of there?
Speaker 5 (22:21):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (22:22):
You know, I mean that's how it works. Yeah, it's
not easy to prove. But in the end, well, let
me put it this way, if someone is.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Hurt enough, believe me, they'll be an attorney jumping all
over it.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
You've heard me say that, Go ahead, I.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
Have to hurt somebody further to be any further.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Yeah, yeah, civil suit, Yeah, someone has to hurt.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Now there's criminal violation where a bar cannot serve someone
who is obviously completely drunk. But you know, I mean,
who's gonna complain about that if no one's hurt. So
that's that's the reality of it. Hey, Mark, welcome to
handle on the law.
Speaker 6 (23:01):
Hi? Yeah, Mark, Yes, Hi, thank you.
Speaker 7 (23:04):
For taking my call.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
Sure, so, uh, my girlfriend her mom passed away and
left her and her sister apartment.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
I'm sorry you're cutting out, left her and her sister?
Speaker 6 (23:19):
What and then she hold.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
On wait wait, wait, hold on, you cut out.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
We were at left her and her sister, and then
I lost it.
Speaker 5 (23:28):
After that, there's her apartment complex.
Speaker 7 (23:32):
Okay, got it, and the stepdad was trying to take
it for his okay.
Speaker 9 (23:38):
And so it was left. It wasn't in both of
their names, It's just in a mother's name. And so
supposedly she the mom wrote a will, but that was
thrown out when my girlfriend ejected to the petition for probate.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Okay, So mom, okay, So the mother died right, yes, yes, okay,
and uh her husband died.
Speaker 5 (24:01):
No, No, her husband's still lives.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Okay, but the but the mom owned the property, the
husband had nothing to do with the property, correct, They
got it?
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
So mom writes a will and who she leave the
money to? Who she leaves the property to?
Speaker 6 (24:15):
The stepdad wrote the will five days before she died.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
But how does the stepdad if it's it was if
it's in the mom's name, what does stepdad have to
do with it.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I apologize.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
The husband wrote the will to Okay.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
The husband wrote the will, but he didn't need but
he didn't own the property. It was all the mom, correct, okay,
and your sister.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
And who was the property left to?
Speaker 8 (24:40):
Then?
Speaker 5 (24:41):
My girlfriend? It was it was just name okay, and
she was.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
She attacked the will because the property was left to
someone other than your girlfriend.
Speaker 9 (24:51):
No, because the property is said that it goes to
to them. But then he was trying to get control
of everything.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
But he doesn't know owned the property.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
No, no, he doesn't own the property.
Speaker 7 (25:03):
So they threw the will out.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Why do you throw the will out if it was
left to your girlfriend? Why would if that was the intention,
why would they throw the will out that the mother signed.
Speaker 9 (25:15):
Well, because it was he wrote it and he, you know,
interest in the property.
Speaker 6 (25:20):
Oh so he was a beneficiary, yes, exactly.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Okay, God, all right boy, that was different. All right?
So what what's your question? All right? What's your question?
Speaker 7 (25:31):
How do you get paid?
Speaker 9 (25:33):
Everything's all said and done and said, final distribution and everything.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
How he's not paying my girlfriend? So how do you
get paid?
Speaker 1 (25:39):
What do you mean he's not paying? What is he gonna,
what's he supposed to pay your girlfriend?
Speaker 3 (25:42):
The rent?
Speaker 9 (25:43):
The rent that's been a collect He wait.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
A second, he is collecting the rent. Yes, you sue.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
This is so complicated. Yeah, there's too much there.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
You're doing a horrible job of explaining it to me,
and just uh, yeah, good for you.
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