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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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three four. Welcome to Handle on the Law Marginal legal Advice,
where I tell you you have absolutely no case once again,
and this is both politics and law and this and
I'm going to talk about this theme going on for
probably the next three and a half years or more,
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and that is the fight between California and Washington, DC,
read California and the Trump administration, and one of the
ways they fight each other matter. In fact, the only
way they fight each other is legally. What the President
does is issue executive orders which nail California on a
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whole series, a whole level of different levels, and one
of them, the latest is auditing California's sex education curriculum. Now,
keep in mind, the federal government gives states a pile
of money. As a matter of fact, most of the
state's budgets, the money comes from the Feds, and so
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the Feds have tremendous control. And outside of what Congress
determines or funds, it's the executive branch that makes the
vast majority of decisions read the executive branch being the
Trump administration and Congress. And this is both Democrats and
Republican Congresses are giving the president, any president, more and
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more and more power to the point where we have
an imperial presidency. And not just now either. We're also
talking about Biden and Obama and Bill Clinton in addition
to the Republicans. So here's what the Trump administration is doing.
They're reviewing the curriculum of a sex education program in
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California for medical accuracy and age appropriateness, and of course
bash has started from the LGBTQ community advocates worried about
transgender and queer folks and the sexual information that's being censored.
So last week, California was asked to submit all educational
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materials from the Personal Responsibility Education program funded by the FEDS,
and it's to go to the Administration for Children and
Families at the US Department of Health and Human Services, which,
of course now we have Robert Kennedy running, and that's
a whole issue onto itself. By the way, this program
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that's funded by the FEDS is seventy five million dollars
annually and that's across the nation. And what it is
is it prevents adolescent pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections. That
is what the program is about. And well, let's just
say what the federal government is saying that what we
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want to do is make sure that the education part
is appropriate for kids, and we want to audit the
whole thing. How unusual, and we'll see what happens. I'll
tell you what's going to happen. The federal government has
been given the right to do that because it is
an executive order and this is part of Health and
Human Services, which is part of the executive branch. So
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there's a lot of a lot of power there. All rights,
go ahead and take a phone call. All right. We'll
start with Tony. Hello, Tony, Yeah, I could, body, Bill.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
I bought a house vacation house in Costa Rica nineteen
eighty five or fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
And now after.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
The year that I wish is very many times Costa Rica,
I desired to sell their property. Now it's being sold
for one hundred.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
That you bought it for fifty thousand, and now it's
being sold for five hundred thousand. Yes, oh, that's an
investment that panned out. When did you buy this property
and where? No, when I don't yeah, I don't care.
I don't know Costa Rica, so I don't care. When
did you buy it.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
In uh, nineteen eighty five?
Speaker 4 (05:17):
All right?
Speaker 1 (05:17):
So that's not still a pretty good return to say
the least. All right, So what's your question?
Speaker 5 (05:24):
How bad?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
And taxes? I'm going to be hit with it. Although
property never never was rented, and I did I never
declared declared this house in my taxes.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Okay, So you're guilty of a tax evasion because you
have to declare income. It doesn't matter where it comes from.
And you're a US citizen, right, yes? Oh yeah, guess what?
US citizens have to pay taxes? H guess what? Guess what?
They have to pay taxes on all of their income.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
So I will not be hit with a charge.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
You, oh you might. Here's what you get to do?
You get to talk to an accountant. Oh, yes, you do.
And you you want you want an expert on this one?
You really do, Tony. Where are you from, by the way,
are you from Costa Rica?
Speaker 3 (06:18):
No?
Speaker 2 (06:19):
No, I'm from Trying America. I'm from Colombia. I've been
here since nice.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Oh you've been here since when.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Sixty one?
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Sixty one? So you've been here for what, good lord?
Sixty years?
Speaker 3 (06:34):
More?
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:35):
More than that? Yes?
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Wow, you sound like you got off the boat yesterday afternoon. Tony,
you clearly haven't lost your accent. You have to go
to an accountant, and I mean someone that is good
and sit down and try to figure this out because
you've got to pay taxes. It's that simple, on all
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your income. The Feds don't care where you make your income.
Couldn't care less. You pay, you pay, and they want
their money. It's that simple. Let me tell you about
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This is handle on the Law AM six forty bill
hands on a Saturday morning. Now back in the saddle,
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really enjoying it. I'm being very patient with people today.
I don't know why. You know, maybe my old age,
I'm not getting as obnoxious. Maybe I am eight hundred
five two zero one five three four is the number.
Welcome back handle on the law Marginal legal advice, Deborah, Hello, Deborah, Hello, Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Hi baby A baby is my husband and I love
You've been listening for years, but yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
How many years? How how old are you? Deborah?
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Hey, I don't know. I don't want to know. But
I'll never received fifty again, a little auntie, You'll never
see fifty again.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
You'll never see ninety again. Okay, what can I do
for you? Deborah?
Speaker 3 (09:19):
No? Really, baby eyes in real life, this is so sad.
But anyhow, the hospital right in front of my face,
the hospital. I want to know how long I have
for Uh? I'm now practice. The hospital killed my in
I Key Harvard husband right in the face.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Okay, the hospital killed your husband right in front of
your face. What did the hospital do, Deborah? Assuming doctors
and nurses, what do they do?
Speaker 3 (09:43):
They gave him, they gave him pills, and there were
the wrong pills oo, I said, and it's the same.
See he he's a doctor and the scientist really educated. Anyhow,
he had the pills in his hand, I said, those
same three pills he kicked before they go. Yeah, the
same ones.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Okay he took.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
When did this happen? Deborah? When did this happen?
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Okay? But this happened for April? Is it January? Fibe
or morth?
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Okay? How many? How long ago months or years?
Speaker 3 (10:13):
It happened in twenty seventeen? So whoa?
Speaker 1 (10:16):
And why are you waiting seven years, eight years before
you start jumping on this?
Speaker 3 (10:25):
You know?
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Why?
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Is this? Sad? I was so traumatized. I'm not me anymore.
I have an IQB with genius, but I'm a don
you have.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
A you have an IQ genius?
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Yeah, but but I'm a dunce now because I was
traumatized real badly.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Yeah, I know, I believe it. What do you do,
by the way, using your IQ your genius? I Q?
What'd you do with it?
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Well? Well, well, I have nothing. I've got some inventions,
but I haven't got on them yet.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
But I'm a what kind of inventions, Deborah? What kind
of inventions?
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Oh? Oh, gosh, I don't know. It's been years. I
can't remember. My husband was an inventor though, By the way.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Oh, what did he invent? What did he invent?
Speaker 3 (11:10):
I don't say. I don't know, step but he's a
he's an electric mit Harvard graduate electronical uh, electronical stuff,
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
And Harvard WHOA that's a that's a combination. Yeah, okay,
that's pretty impressive. And okay, So they took the So
you told the husband, all, are you sure these are
the right pills? Is? Yeah, the right pills? Your husband
took him and and he died right there. From the
time he took the pills in front of you and died,
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what was that period of time? Deborah?
Speaker 3 (11:44):
What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (11:45):
What do you mean?
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Baby eyes?
Speaker 4 (11:46):
What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Okay, baby eyes? I love this. Okay. You said that
he was he was given three pills by the doctors, okay,
and you and you were there, you were there, and
you said, are he's the right pills? And the doctor said,
yes they are, and he took the pills and then
he died. Now how long did it take him to die?
Speaker 3 (12:09):
I walked away from him and I came back five
minutes later he.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Was gone five minutes. The pill he the pill he took,
and it wasn't cyanide. Okay, I get it. It's you know,
it's the five minute death pill. I get that. Uh,
not easy to find, not easy to find. But obviously
the hospital was able to supply the death pills so quickly. No,
(12:36):
I understand, I know, I get that. I mean it's
you know, you're watching someone dying right in front of
you taking three pills and five minutes later. It usually
takes a little bit longer for peel pills to go
into your system. Oh, by the way, did you okay
may seven minutes? Let me ask you this was he
on a full stomach or not, because there's a difference.
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You know, when you take a pill on a full stomach,
it takes a little longer to kick in than when
you don't have a full stomach. Can you tell me
the difference? You don't know. You don't know if you
had eaten How do you know? How do you know
he wasn't poisoned by the food that the hospital gave him.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
He didn't eat food. He don't know. He went to
the hospital that day and they gave him the Bill
that day he was up. I don't think he was
in the hospital. Then, Oh, I get it. I don't know.
I know he had been in the hospital, though he
had been in that hospital previously. So I don't know
what was he what was he?
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Well, hold on to go through this because this was
important stuff. Why did he go to the hospital in
the first place?
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Oh, he didn't feel good? I don't remember. I just
he just didn't feel good or something. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Yeah, And so what's your question? No, I understand, he's
what did you say he's adopted or you say he's
a doctor?
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Well, a doctor, he's a doctor, medical doctor, a scientist,
a physicist, and another kind of doctor.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
M I T and Harvard boy. Pretty impressive. How old
was he when he died, Deborah?
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Eight fifty eight?
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Pretty young? Pretty young? All right? So what what's your Deborah?
What's your question?
Speaker 3 (14:16):
I just wonder, baby eyes, whether or not I should
have did something sooner. But if you, well, you don't
traumatize people in your life, I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Oh yeah, I'm talking to one. Yes, I know, I understand. Okay,
what is good? You keep on calling me baby eyes?
No one's ever done that, by the way, Okay, What's
what's your question? So, Deborah, what's your question? Is it
the statue of limitations question? Yeah, you've blown past the Yeah,
you've blown past the statue. You But I tell you,
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if you talk to a medical malpractice attorney, every one
of them that I know would love to talk to
you because it's the five minute death pill. I mean,
I got to tell you that's a hell of a case,
you know, But unfortunately it was eight years ago, so
that becomes a little problematic. This is Handle on the Law.
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And there are no breaks either of mean, I just
go right through these questions. So tell you about that
a little bit later on in the meantime. Welcome back
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more handle on the law and let me see who.
All right, Tish, let's go to you. Hello, Tish, what
can I do for you?
Speaker 5 (16:02):
Well, yesterday my partner and I were served summons by
a marshall. I was kind of shocked. I was at
my business and I said, you know, you know, what
is this and He's like, basically, it was I had
the wrong type of handicap sign on my parking space.
(16:22):
I have three parking spaces. Two are just regular and
one is a very large space that's identified by a sign.
It's painted, it has a ramp, it has everything.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
So all right, So so you've been you've been served,
and what are they saying that you've done something wrong?
Speaker 4 (16:42):
What is what?
Speaker 1 (16:44):
What is the lawsuit or the service says that you
have done wrong?
Speaker 5 (16:49):
Well, it's saying that I didn't have the correct sign
I was missing.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
That said, okay, I understand exactly, got it. I understand
exactly what's happening, Tish. And here is what is going on.
You are being legally scammed. Unfortunately, it is perfectly legal.
It's not one of those scams that are criminal or
illegal or trying to get money from you. Here's what's
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going on. There are law firms out there, lawyers that
go after small businesses on technical issues. For example, a
ramp that is a quarter a quarter of degree off
on how high or low that it goes, because the
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law says you have to be a minimum of let's say,
eighteen degrees or twelve degrees, whatever it is. And you're
at seventeen point five, you're off half an inch. Boom,
you're in violation of the ADA. Let's say, and we've
had places, and I've heard of these, and I know
these cases where someone wheelchair goes into a bathroom and
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the mirror has to be at a certain heighth and
it's off by a quarter of an inch violation of
the ADA. Someone comes in who is in a wheelchair
or is handicapped and wanted to park, and you violated
his or her rights under the ADA. You are responsible,
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and you're going to get hit with some money. You're
going to be asked to settle the case for several
thousand dollars. And what's going to happen is if you
don't settle it, they're going to take you to court,
and a judge has no ability to dismiss the case
if they come in and say here's the sign that
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the law says you have to have, and it has
to be twenty inches by thirty inches. And your sign
is nineteen inches by thirty inches, you're in violation of
the ADA and the judge has to give it to
the plaintiff who's in the wheelchair of the person who's handicapped.
You're getting screwed. That's what these people do for a living.
(19:05):
They do it for a living. Tish, how much are
they asking for? You know, how much money are they
asking for?
Speaker 5 (19:11):
They're not I they want it, says the demand for gile.
It says pursuant to blah blah blah plan a fre
by demands a trial by jury on all issues, so triable.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Yeah, okay, here's what's gonna happen. You're gonna call up.
They're going to say we'll settle it for five thousand,
eight thousand and seven thousand dollars. And what they're trying
to do is scare the hell out of you. They're
asking for a trial by jury, which I don't think
they're going to get or they're going to I don't
even know if those are able to go trial by jury.
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But you're being held up you're being extorted legally because
you are. They're arguingly you are in violation of whatever
ADA rules are. But I mean by a quarter of
an inch. I mean by almost nothing. And that is,
unfortunately the way it is written. You have to comply.
(20:04):
And so what I'm going to suggest you do. I
assume your business, of course is insured. Correct, Yes, all right,
turn it over to your insurance company, have them deal
with it.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
Yeah, I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Yeah, I know, it's it's it's not it's tough because
but that unfortunately, that's what happens. God, I hate that.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
These are lawyers, law firms that do that, and they
find plaintiffs. And the other thing is you will see plaintiffs.
The people that sue have sued dozens of times before.
This is what they do for a living. They'll take
the each wheelchair out and go into a business that
has a ramp and they'll actually measure the degree of incline.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
They'll go into the restroom and actually measure how far
up the mirror is. And if it's off by half
an inch, Uh, there is the violation. And the world
and the law does not read a principally in violation
or reasonably in compliance, which a quarter of an inch
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or half an inch would of course be reasonable. Doesn't
say that the law says you must be thirty two
inches off the floor with a mirror, for example. And
I'm just throwing figures out there because I don't know
what the law, how the law is written. And if
you're thirty one and a half, boom, you're done, as
horrible as that is. Diana, Hello, Diana, Hi.
Speaker 6 (21:36):
Thank you for taking this call. She's just kind of
complicent that I'm going to be as fast as I can. Okay,
But twenty five years ago I rented a place okay,
was owned by two older couple. They're Germans from off
Ah in Germany and the Holocaust survivors. Anyway, I was
renting from them for about five years, and then his
wife started to get kind of difficult. She was coming
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down to Alzheimer's. So he invited me to come and
live on his property. There's two little house. There's two houses,
and they went on a little win and asked me
if I could help them with his wife. Because I
knew them work pretty well. I used to help them
in the yards. They used to do all their own
gardeners in those old days. So anyway, so I said, okay,
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so I did, and so now it's it's like twenty
five years later. He's a very wealthy man, and he
had a trustee that befriended him, so he became a trustee.
That man called him and said he was a relative,
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and I need to know somebody around here because I
don't know anybody else. So they became friends. He appointed
him as trustee to his estate. Then that trustee appointed
his friend to be his attorney. So now here we
are these all these years later, and my boss called
me about us. The boss is now one hundred and
four and well.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Doing well.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
Oh yeah, doing well, and untill about in February, Valentine's
stated the exact because blood pressure self. Other than that
he was fined all the time.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
Before he is he is he still alive or not, Diana,
He's still alive.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Okay, So all right, so okay, so far none of
this makes it. Well, it makes sense, but so far
we have gotten to the point.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Yet.
Speaker 6 (23:31):
Yeah, he's in the hospital. Now he's in the hospital,
and before that he's been He had his trust reread
in August and it wasn't written the way he wanted it.
It was every everything was pertaining to the trustee, the
trustee in charge, all right, to make the Sydney How
do you know?
Speaker 1 (23:49):
How do you know that it was written badly.
Speaker 6 (23:52):
Because we took it to three other attorneys.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
What do you have to do with the trust?
Speaker 6 (24:00):
I'm included?
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Oh you're okay, you're a beneficiary of the trust.
Speaker 6 (24:04):
Well yeah, it's written like that, but there's clauses.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
So but that's not it.
Speaker 6 (24:10):
That's not that's not the whole thing. But anyway, so
the trustee now he's in the hospital, which he never visits.
He's twenty minutes away, never visits much. A year ago,
last time.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Yeah, it doesn't matter. Trustee doesn't have to live, it
doesn't have to take.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
So now he's going around and he's closing all the
bank accounts when my boss is trying to take them off.
He even told him, I want you off my paperwork.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Yeah, but telling him doesn't do a whole lot. And
I don't know how he's closing the bank accounts because
unless the trust reads that, he has full power. Usually
trusts are they kick in when someone dies. All right,
so the trustee is changing bank accounts.
Speaker 6 (24:53):
Of attorney.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Okay, so there's a power of attorney. All right, So
what's your question, Diana, Because but now.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
He wants to come over here and look for all
his paperwork. It's fine, okay, he could do that. He's
asking me for a key to that house which is
right behind me, and it's so close.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
You don't have to give it to him, all right.
So I don't understand what your question is, Diana, because
when you said you're gonna make it as quick as possible,
you really weren't telling me the truth here. What's your question?
Speaker 6 (25:21):
Does he have rights to the key to that house?
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (25:24):
The trust? See, I don't know. Are you a tenant?
Speaker 2 (25:28):
I still?
Speaker 6 (25:28):
I live here?
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Been here?
Speaker 6 (25:30):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Are you living in the same house as he does?
That he that he owns? Are there next? So you
have your own house?
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (25:39):
Little house.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Yeah, you don't have to give him the key. You
don't have to give him the key. I wouldn't let
him take it to court. Okay, right, that's great, boy,
that was quick, wasn't that? How about that?
Speaker 4 (25:50):
Bill?
Speaker 1 (25:50):
I'm going to try to make this as quick as possible.
How about this? Okay, here's the question. Does he have
a right to come in and do I have to
give him a key? No, Well, there it is. That's
your story. Thank you so much Diana for that. I
didn't scream, I didn't yell. I thought there'd be something
to it. One hundred and four years old. That's kind
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approach the end of the show, because this is the
last segment, I will be taking phone calls after the
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ay put. Even as I walk out and say goodbye,
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five two zero one five three four, and we'll get
through them on for half an hour forty minutes to
make sure that everybody gets their questions answered. I've been
doing that for a few years because I'm a nice guy,
and so as I lock out of the show, we'll
talk more about that in the meantime. Welcome back. Handle
(28:17):
on the law Marginal Legal Advice. Stacey. Hello Stacy, Well
how are you today?
Speaker 4 (28:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Thank you? All right, what's up?
Speaker 4 (28:33):
You're welcome. I have it received a letter of intent
that I have signed but not yet returned, and it
seems to be a little bit one sided, favoring the
purchaser and requiring that I do certain things which I
(28:55):
have actually already done. But it feels like it protects
the buyer and and not me the seller. They're the
ones that prepared the l o I. In general, we're
in full agreement.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
So what are the issues that you're comfortable with?
Speaker 4 (29:21):
Well, I have to in order to maintain a particular
contract which they are purchasing, I have to put forth
uh some dollars to an institution to be assured that
the the the contract that I am selling stays alive.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
And if well, hang on a minute, well they're buying,
they're they're buying from you.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
Do I have that right? That's correct?
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Okay? So why would you put money into a an
escrow account? Because I had that same situation where I
sold the business and they said, we want to make
sure that your contracts stay in place. Okay, so they
withheld twenty percent. It's all And if I in fact complied,
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I got my twenty percent. I don't understand if someone
is asking me to put money in when they're buying.
Wait a minute, why don't you just hold off and
you know, just withhold some money so that one I
don't understand is this Is it a substantial amount of money?
Speaker 4 (30:36):
It's eighty eight hundred dollars. It's it's I'm doing it
to preserve the life of the contractor buying. It's buying time.
If I didn't do anything at all, this instrument would
would die.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
All right, So all right, so you put it, so
you put it into an institution, and assuming that you
are going to keep your contracts alive. I'm assuming that
the purchase price is based on these contracts coming in
and you're just making sure that the contracts are maintained.
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And if they're not, I guess they get the eighty
eight hundred dollars.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
That is correct, I lose.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
So let me ask you. I mean, legally, there's no issue.
Of course they can do that. Are you asking my
business advice? What's your question?
Speaker 4 (31:30):
Well, it is the business advice. The question really is
is when the contract the actual contract arrives. Do I
still have time after signing the letter of intent? I
do have time, I'm asking.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
And it depends if they basically a letter of intent,
you sign it, and it depends on what the letter
of intent says. This is not a binding contract. This
until we get a full contract. This is simply a
letter of intent, which if it can be breached, it's
certainly not as strong as a contract. But you know,
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you just look at the terms. If you're comfortable with
the terms, you go forward. And as a matter of fact,
you don't even sign the letter of intent until you're
happy with all the terms. So you know, I don't
even know where you go with that one. That's kind
of bizarre to say the least. Oh Ben, Hello Ben, welcome.
Speaker 7 (32:31):
Hey Bill. I signed off for in home supporter services
to take care of my mother and it comes up
about five hundred every two weeks.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
Now.
Speaker 7 (32:44):
One of the orientations to go in there is to
is to go to a meeting in San Diego, and
it was for the unions. It was all union. They
had their sign papers and all the time.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
I don't understand it was it was a union program
that took care of your mom.
Speaker 7 (33:03):
No it was IHSS.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
But the.
Speaker 7 (33:08):
Requirement is to go to a union meeting.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Okay, you know what I tell you. I don't even
know where to go with that. I have no idea.
All right, before we leave and I say goodbye, a
quick word about continuing on with the program, at least
continuing on with answering questions. I'm going to do that
after the show, after I say goodbye, and I'll still
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or take off the air. And so for those of
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(01:04):
three four. Welcome to Handle on the Law Marginal legal Advice,
where I tell you you have absolutely no case once again,
and this is both politics and law and this and
I'm going to talk about this theme going on for
probably the next three and a half years or more,
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and that is the fight between California and Washington, DC,
read California and the Trump administration, and one of the
ways they fight each other matter. In fact, the only
way they fight each other is legally. What the President
does is issue executive orders which nail California on a
(01:44):
whole series, a whole level of different levels, and one
of them, the latest is auditing California's sex education curriculum. Now,
keep in mind, the federal government gives states a pile
of money. As a matter of fact, most of the
state's budgets, the money comes from the Feds, and so
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the Feds have tremendous control. And outside of what Congress
determines or funds, it's the executive branch that makes the
vast majority of decisions read the executive branch being the
Trump administration and Congress. And this is both Democrats and
Republican Congresses are giving the president, any president, more and
(02:32):
more and more power to the point where we have
an imperial presidency. And not just now either. We're also
talking about Biden and Obama and Bill Clinton in addition
to the Republicans. So here's what the Trump administration is doing.
They're reviewing the curriculum of a sex education program in
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California for medical accuracy and age appropriateness, and of course
bash has started from the LGBTQ community advocates worried about
transgender and queer folks and the sexual information that's being censored.
So last week, California was asked to submit all educational
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materials from the Personal Responsibility Education program funded by the FEDS,
and it's to go to the Administration for Children and
Families at the US Department of Health and Human Services, which,
of course now we have Robert Kennedy running, and that's
a whole issue onto itself. By the way, this program
(03:38):
that's funded by the FEDS is seventy five million dollars
annually and that's across the nation. And what it is
is it prevents adolescent pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections. That
is what the program is about. And well, let's just
say what the federal government is saying that what we
(03:58):
want to do is make sure that the education part
is appropriate for kids, and we want to audit the
whole thing. How unusual, and we'll see what happens. I'll
tell you what's going to happen. The federal government has
been given the right to do that because it is
an executive order and this is part of Health and
Human Services, which is part of the executive branch. So
(04:22):
there's a lot of a lot of power there. All rights,
go ahead and take a phone call. All right. We'll
start with Tony. Hello, Tony, Yeah, I could, body, Bill.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
I bought a house vacation house in Costa Rica nineteen
eighty five or fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
And now after.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
The year that I wish is very many times Costa Rica,
I desired to sell their property. Now it's being sold
for one hundred.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
That you bought it for fifty thousand, and now it's
being sold for five hundred thousand. Yes, oh, that's an
investment that panned out. When did you buy this property
and where? No, when I don't yeah, I don't care.
I don't know Costa Rica, so I don't care. When
did you buy it.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
In uh, nineteen eighty five?
Speaker 4 (05:17):
All right?
Speaker 1 (05:17):
So that's not still a pretty good return to say
the least. All right, So what's your question?
Speaker 5 (05:24):
How bad?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
And taxes? I'm going to be hit with it. Although
property never never was rented, and I did I never
declared declared this house in my taxes.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Okay, So you're guilty of a tax evasion because you
have to declare income. It doesn't matter where it comes from.
And you're a US citizen, right, yes? Oh yeah, guess what?
US citizens have to pay taxes? H guess what? Guess what?
They have to pay taxes on all of their income.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
So I will not be hit with a charge.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
You, oh you might. Here's what you get to do?
You get to talk to an accountant. Oh, yes, you do.
And you you want you want an expert on this one?
You really do, Tony. Where are you from, by the way,
are you from Costa Rica?
Speaker 3 (06:18):
No?
Speaker 2 (06:19):
No, I'm from Trying America. I'm from Colombia. I've been
here since nice.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Oh you've been here since when.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Sixty one?
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Sixty one? So you've been here for what, good lord?
Sixty years?
Speaker 3 (06:34):
More?
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:35):
More than that? Yes?
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Wow, you sound like you got off the boat yesterday afternoon. Tony,
you clearly haven't lost your accent. You have to go
to an accountant, and I mean someone that is good
and sit down and try to figure this out because
you've got to pay taxes. It's that simple, on all
(06:57):
your income. The Feds don't care where you make your income.
Couldn't care less. You pay, you pay, and they want
their money. It's that simple. Let me tell you about
the Pain Game Podcast. This is about chronic pain, and
chronic pain is well, if you suffer from it, you
know what I'm talking about. It's always there. Sometimes it
(07:21):
can be debilitating. And so let me suggest a podcast,
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living with pain, and it's about just trying to understand
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know very very well. Matter of fact, I'm married to her,
(07:43):
deals with chronic pain twenty four to seven and ever
since I've known her, she's had this pain. And man,
what a trooper she is. She's actually able to make
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what the Pain Game Podcast is about, bringing some sense
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listen to the Pain Game Podcast. That's the Pain Game Podcast.
This is handle on the Law AM six forty bill
hands on a Saturday morning. Now back in the saddle,
(08:28):
really enjoying it. I'm being very patient with people today.
I don't know why. You know, maybe my old age,
I'm not getting as obnoxious. Maybe I am eight hundred
five two zero one five three four is the number.
Welcome back handle on the law Marginal legal advice, Deborah, Hello, Deborah, Hello, Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Hi baby A baby is my husband and I love
You've been listening for years, but yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
How many years? How how old are you? Deborah?
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Hey, I don't know. I don't want to know. But
I'll never received fifty again, a little auntie, You'll never
see fifty again.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
You'll never see ninety again. Okay, what can I do
for you? Deborah?
Speaker 3 (09:19):
No? Really, baby eyes in real life, this is so sad.
But anyhow, the hospital right in front of my face,
the hospital. I want to know how long I have
for Uh? I'm now practice. The hospital killed my in
I Key Harvard husband right in the face.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Okay, the hospital killed your husband right in front of
your face. What did the hospital do, Deborah? Assuming doctors
and nurses, what do they do?
Speaker 3 (09:43):
They gave him, they gave him pills, and there were
the wrong pills oo, I said, and it's the same.
See he he's a doctor and the scientist really educated. Anyhow,
he had the pills in his hand, I said, those
same three pills he kicked before they go. Yeah, the
same ones.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Okay he took.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
When did this happen? Deborah? When did this happen?
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Okay? But this happened for April? Is it January? Fibe
or morth?
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Okay? How many? How long ago months or years?
Speaker 3 (10:13):
It happened in twenty seventeen? So whoa?
Speaker 1 (10:16):
And why are you waiting seven years, eight years before
you start jumping on this?
Speaker 3 (10:25):
You know?
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Why?
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Is this? Sad? I was so traumatized. I'm not me anymore.
I have an IQB with genius, but I'm a don
you have.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
A you have an IQ genius?
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Yeah, but but I'm a dunce now because I was
traumatized real badly.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Yeah, I know, I believe it. What do you do,
by the way, using your IQ your genius? I Q?
What'd you do with it?
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Well? Well, well, I have nothing. I've got some inventions,
but I haven't got on them yet.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
But I'm a what kind of inventions, Deborah? What kind
of inventions?
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Oh? Oh, gosh, I don't know. It's been years. I
can't remember. My husband was an inventor though, By the way.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Oh, what did he invent? What did he invent?
Speaker 3 (11:10):
I don't say. I don't know, step but he's a
he's an electric mit Harvard graduate electronical uh, electronical stuff,
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
And Harvard WHOA that's a that's a combination. Yeah, okay,
that's pretty impressive. And okay, So they took the So
you told the husband, all, are you sure these are
the right pills? Is? Yeah, the right pills? Your husband
took him and and he died right there. From the
time he took the pills in front of you and died,
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what was that period of time? Deborah?
Speaker 3 (11:44):
What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (11:45):
What do you mean?
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Baby eyes?
Speaker 4 (11:46):
What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Okay, baby eyes? I love this. Okay. You said that
he was he was given three pills by the doctors, okay,
and you and you were there, you were there, and
you said, are he's the right pills? And the doctor said,
yes they are, and he took the pills and then
he died. Now how long did it take him to die?
Speaker 3 (12:09):
I walked away from him and I came back five
minutes later he.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Was gone five minutes. The pill he the pill he took,
and it wasn't cyanide. Okay, I get it. It's you know,
it's the five minute death pill. I get that. Uh,
not easy to find, not easy to find. But obviously
the hospital was able to supply the death pills so quickly. No,
(12:36):
I understand, I know, I get that. I mean it's
you know, you're watching someone dying right in front of
you taking three pills and five minutes later. It usually
takes a little bit longer for peel pills to go
into your system. Oh, by the way, did you okay
may seven minutes? Let me ask you this was he
on a full stomach or not, because there's a difference.
(12:59):
You know, when you take a pill on a full stomach,
it takes a little longer to kick in than when
you don't have a full stomach. Can you tell me
the difference? You don't know. You don't know if you
had eaten How do you know? How do you know
he wasn't poisoned by the food that the hospital gave him.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
He didn't eat food. He don't know. He went to
the hospital that day and they gave him the Bill
that day he was up. I don't think he was
in the hospital. Then, Oh, I get it. I don't know.
I know he had been in the hospital, though he
had been in that hospital previously. So I don't know
what was he what was he?
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Well, hold on to go through this because this was
important stuff. Why did he go to the hospital in
the first place?
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Oh, he didn't feel good? I don't remember. I just
he just didn't feel good or something. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Yeah, And so what's your question? No, I understand, he's
what did you say he's adopted or you say he's
a doctor?
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Well, a doctor, he's a doctor, medical doctor, a scientist,
a physicist, and another kind of doctor.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
M I T and Harvard boy. Pretty impressive. How old
was he when he died, Deborah?
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Eight fifty eight?
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Pretty young? Pretty young? All right? So what what's your Deborah?
What's your question?
Speaker 3 (14:16):
I just wonder, baby eyes, whether or not I should
have did something sooner. But if you, well, you don't
traumatize people in your life, I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Oh yeah, I'm talking to one. Yes, I know, I understand. Okay,
what is good? You keep on calling me baby eyes?
No one's ever done that, by the way, Okay, What's
what's your question? So, Deborah, what's your question? Is it
the statue of limitations question? Yeah, you've blown past the Yeah,
you've blown past the statue. You But I tell you,
(14:46):
if you talk to a medical malpractice attorney, every one
of them that I know would love to talk to
you because it's the five minute death pill. I mean,
I got to tell you that's a hell of a case,
you know, But unfortunately it was eight years ago, so
that becomes a little problematic. This is Handle on the Law.
(15:09):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty KFI AM six forty Bill Handle here on
Saturday morning, right up until eleven o'clock and coming up
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Morrow starts, you can still call me and I will
(15:30):
answer questions until well, basically I'm done. So it gives
a chance for people at the end of the show
not to be well, they'll still be able to You'll
still be able to call and get a question answered.
And there are no breaks either of mean, I just
go right through these questions. So tell you about that
a little bit later on in the meantime. Welcome back
(15:51):
more handle on the law and let me see who.
All right, Tish, let's go to you. Hello, Tish, what
can I do for you?
Speaker 5 (16:02):
Well, yesterday my partner and I were served summons by
a marshall. I was kind of shocked. I was at
my business and I said, you know, you know, what
is this and He's like, basically, it was I had
the wrong type of handicap sign on my parking space.
(16:22):
I have three parking spaces. Two are just regular and
one is a very large space that's identified by a sign.
It's painted, it has a ramp, it has everything.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
So all right, So so you've been you've been served,
and what are they saying that you've done something wrong?
Speaker 4 (16:42):
What is what?
Speaker 1 (16:44):
What is the lawsuit or the service says that you
have done wrong?
Speaker 5 (16:49):
Well, it's saying that I didn't have the correct sign
I was missing.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
That said, okay, I understand exactly, got it. I understand
exactly what's happening, Tish. And here is what is going on.
You are being legally scammed. Unfortunately, it is perfectly legal.
It's not one of those scams that are criminal or
illegal or trying to get money from you. Here's what's
(17:19):
going on. There are law firms out there, lawyers that
go after small businesses on technical issues. For example, a
ramp that is a quarter a quarter of degree off
on how high or low that it goes, because the
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law says you have to be a minimum of let's say,
eighteen degrees or twelve degrees, whatever it is. And you're
at seventeen point five, you're off half an inch. Boom,
you're in violation of the ADA. Let's say, and we've
had places, and I've heard of these, and I know
these cases where someone wheelchair goes into a bathroom and
(18:02):
the mirror has to be at a certain heighth and
it's off by a quarter of an inch violation of
the ADA. Someone comes in who is in a wheelchair
or is handicapped and wanted to park, and you violated
his or her rights under the ADA. You are responsible,
(18:23):
and you're going to get hit with some money. You're
going to be asked to settle the case for several
thousand dollars. And what's going to happen is if you
don't settle it, they're going to take you to court,
and a judge has no ability to dismiss the case
if they come in and say here's the sign that
(18:43):
the law says you have to have, and it has
to be twenty inches by thirty inches. And your sign
is nineteen inches by thirty inches, you're in violation of
the ADA and the judge has to give it to
the plaintiff who's in the wheelchair of the person who's handicapped.
You're getting screwed. That's what these people do for a living.
(19:05):
They do it for a living. Tish, how much are
they asking for? You know, how much money are they
asking for?
Speaker 5 (19:11):
They're not I they want it, says the demand for gile.
It says pursuant to blah blah blah plan a fre
by demands a trial by jury on all issues, so triable.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Yeah, okay, here's what's gonna happen. You're gonna call up.
They're going to say we'll settle it for five thousand,
eight thousand and seven thousand dollars. And what they're trying
to do is scare the hell out of you. They're
asking for a trial by jury, which I don't think
they're going to get or they're going to I don't
even know if those are able to go trial by jury.
(19:44):
But you're being held up you're being extorted legally because
you are. They're arguingly you are in violation of whatever
ADA rules are. But I mean by a quarter of
an inch. I mean by almost nothing. And that is,
unfortunately the way it is written. You have to comply.
(20:04):
And so what I'm going to suggest you do. I
assume your business, of course is insured. Correct, Yes, all right,
turn it over to your insurance company, have them deal
with it.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
Yeah, I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Yeah, I know, it's it's it's not it's tough because
but that unfortunately, that's what happens. God, I hate that.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
These are lawyers, law firms that do that, and they
find plaintiffs. And the other thing is you will see plaintiffs.
The people that sue have sued dozens of times before.
This is what they do for a living. They'll take
the each wheelchair out and go into a business that
has a ramp and they'll actually measure the degree of incline.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
They'll go into the restroom and actually measure how far
up the mirror is. And if it's off by half
an inch, Uh, there is the violation. And the world
and the law does not read a principally in violation
or reasonably in compliance, which a quarter of an inch
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or half an inch would of course be reasonable. Doesn't
say that the law says you must be thirty two
inches off the floor with a mirror, for example. And
I'm just throwing figures out there because I don't know
what the law, how the law is written. And if
you're thirty one and a half, boom, you're done, as
horrible as that is. Diana, Hello, Diana, Hi.
Speaker 6 (21:36):
Thank you for taking this call. She's just kind of
complicent that I'm going to be as fast as I can. Okay,
But twenty five years ago I rented a place okay,
was owned by two older couple. They're Germans from off
Ah in Germany and the Holocaust survivors. Anyway, I was
renting from them for about five years, and then his
wife started to get kind of difficult. She was coming
(22:00):
down to Alzheimer's. So he invited me to come and
live on his property. There's two little house. There's two houses,
and they went on a little win and asked me
if I could help them with his wife. Because I
knew them work pretty well. I used to help them
in the yards. They used to do all their own
gardeners in those old days. So anyway, so I said, okay,
(22:22):
so I did, and so now it's it's like twenty
five years later. He's a very wealthy man, and he
had a trustee that befriended him, so he became a trustee.
That man called him and said he was a relative,
(22:42):
and I need to know somebody around here because I
don't know anybody else. So they became friends. He appointed
him as trustee to his estate. Then that trustee appointed
his friend to be his attorney. So now here we
are these all these years later, and my boss called
me about us. The boss is now one hundred and
four and well.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Doing well.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
Oh yeah, doing well, and untill about in February, Valentine's
stated the exact because blood pressure self. Other than that
he was fined all the time.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
Before he is he is he still alive or not, Diana,
He's still alive.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Okay, So all right, so okay, so far none of
this makes it. Well, it makes sense, but so far
we have gotten to the point.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Yet.
Speaker 6 (23:31):
Yeah, he's in the hospital. Now he's in the hospital,
and before that he's been He had his trust reread
in August and it wasn't written the way he wanted it.
It was every everything was pertaining to the trustee, the
trustee in charge, all right, to make the Sydney How
do you know?
Speaker 1 (23:49):
How do you know that it was written badly.
Speaker 6 (23:52):
Because we took it to three other attorneys.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
What do you have to do with the trust?
Speaker 6 (24:00):
I'm included?
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Oh you're okay, you're a beneficiary of the trust.
Speaker 6 (24:04):
Well yeah, it's written like that, but there's clauses.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
So but that's not it.
Speaker 6 (24:10):
That's not that's not the whole thing. But anyway, so
the trustee now he's in the hospital, which he never visits.
He's twenty minutes away, never visits much. A year ago,
last time.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Yeah, it doesn't matter. Trustee doesn't have to live, it
doesn't have to take.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
So now he's going around and he's closing all the
bank accounts when my boss is trying to take them off.
He even told him, I want you off my paperwork.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Yeah, but telling him doesn't do a whole lot. And
I don't know how he's closing the bank accounts because
unless the trust reads that, he has full power. Usually
trusts are they kick in when someone dies. All right,
so the trustee is changing bank accounts.
Speaker 6 (24:53):
Of attorney.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Okay, so there's a power of attorney. All right, So
what's your question, Diana, Because but now.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
He wants to come over here and look for all
his paperwork. It's fine, okay, he could do that. He's
asking me for a key to that house which is
right behind me, and it's so close.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
You don't have to give it to him, all right.
So I don't understand what your question is, Diana, because
when you said you're gonna make it as quick as possible,
you really weren't telling me the truth here. What's your question?
Speaker 6 (25:21):
Does he have rights to the key to that house?
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (25:24):
The trust? See, I don't know. Are you a tenant?
Speaker 2 (25:28):
I still?
Speaker 6 (25:28):
I live here?
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Been here?
Speaker 6 (25:30):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Are you living in the same house as he does?
That he that he owns? Are there next? So you
have your own house?
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (25:39):
Little house.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Yeah, you don't have to give him the key. You
don't have to give him the key. I wouldn't let
him take it to court. Okay, right, that's great, boy,
that was quick, wasn't that? How about that?
Speaker 4 (25:50):
Bill?
Speaker 1 (25:50):
I'm going to try to make this as quick as possible.
How about this? Okay, here's the question. Does he have
a right to come in and do I have to
give him a key? No, Well, there it is. That's
your story. Thank you so much Diana for that. I
didn't scream, I didn't yell. I thought there'd be something
to it. One hundred and four years old. That's kind
(26:11):
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(26:31):
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the law KFI AM six four. Handle here eight hundred
(27:37):
five two zero one five three four. Now, as we
approach the end of the show, because this is the
last segment, I will be taking phone calls after the
show off the air, and so you can continue to
call for those of you that are on hold, just
ay put. Even as I walk out and say goodbye,
I'll still stay on at the same number eight hundred
(27:57):
five two zero one five three four, and we'll get
through them on for half an hour forty minutes to
make sure that everybody gets their questions answered. I've been
doing that for a few years because I'm a nice guy,
and so as I lock out of the show, we'll
talk more about that in the meantime. Welcome back. Handle
(28:17):
on the law Marginal Legal Advice. Stacey. Hello Stacy, Well
how are you today?
Speaker 4 (28:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Thank you? All right, what's up?
Speaker 4 (28:33):
You're welcome. I have it received a letter of intent
that I have signed but not yet returned, and it
seems to be a little bit one sided, favoring the
purchaser and requiring that I do certain things which I
(28:55):
have actually already done. But it feels like it protects
the buyer and and not me the seller. They're the
ones that prepared the l o I. In general, we're
in full agreement.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
So what are the issues that you're comfortable with?
Speaker 4 (29:21):
Well, I have to in order to maintain a particular
contract which they are purchasing, I have to put forth
uh some dollars to an institution to be assured that
the the the contract that I am selling stays alive.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
And if well, hang on a minute, well they're buying,
they're they're buying from you.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
Do I have that right? That's correct?
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Okay? So why would you put money into a an
escrow account? Because I had that same situation where I
sold the business and they said, we want to make
sure that your contracts stay in place. Okay, so they
withheld twenty percent. It's all And if I in fact complied,
(30:14):
I got my twenty percent. I don't understand if someone
is asking me to put money in when they're buying.
Wait a minute, why don't you just hold off and
you know, just withhold some money so that one I
don't understand is this Is it a substantial amount of money?
Speaker 4 (30:36):
It's eighty eight hundred dollars. It's it's I'm doing it
to preserve the life of the contractor buying. It's buying time.
If I didn't do anything at all, this instrument would
would die.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
All right, So all right, so you put it, so
you put it into an institution, and assuming that you
are going to keep your contracts alive. I'm assuming that
the purchase price is based on these contracts coming in
and you're just making sure that the contracts are maintained.
(31:12):
And if they're not, I guess they get the eighty
eight hundred dollars.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
That is correct, I lose.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
So let me ask you. I mean, legally, there's no issue.
Of course they can do that. Are you asking my
business advice? What's your question?
Speaker 4 (31:30):
Well, it is the business advice. The question really is
is when the contract the actual contract arrives. Do I
still have time after signing the letter of intent? I
do have time, I'm asking.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
And it depends if they basically a letter of intent,
you sign it, and it depends on what the letter
of intent says. This is not a binding contract. This
until we get a full contract. This is simply a
letter of intent, which if it can be breached, it's
certainly not as strong as a contract. But you know,
(32:06):
you just look at the terms. If you're comfortable with
the terms, you go forward. And as a matter of fact,
you don't even sign the letter of intent until you're
happy with all the terms. So you know, I don't
even know where you go with that one. That's kind
of bizarre to say the least. Oh Ben, Hello Ben, welcome.
Speaker 7 (32:31):
Hey Bill. I signed off for in home supporter services
to take care of my mother and it comes up
about five hundred every two weeks.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
Now.
Speaker 7 (32:44):
One of the orientations to go in there is to
is to go to a meeting in San Diego, and
it was for the unions. It was all union. They
had their sign papers and all the time.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
I don't understand it was it was a union program
that took care of your mom.
Speaker 7 (33:03):
No it was IHSS.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
But the.
Speaker 7 (33:08):
Requirement is to go to a union meeting.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Okay, you know what I tell you. I don't even
know where to go with that. I have no idea.
All right, before we leave and I say goodbye, a
quick word about continuing on with the program, at least
continuing on with answering questions. I'm going to do that
after the show, after I say goodbye, and I'll still
(33:34):
be answering questions for another half hour forty minutes give
or take off the air. And so for those of
you that are on hold, just stay put. For those
of you that still have a question and you want
to call in, feel free. And the number is eight
hundred five two zero one five three four. Eight hundred
five two zero one five three four. These phone calls
(33:55):
go very quickly. There are no breaks, there's no traffic,
there are no news, there are no commercials. And I
have and there's no patience on my part. So you're
going to get in pretty quickly, to say the least.
Eight hundred five two zero one five three four. This
is Handle on the Law. You're listening to Bill Handle
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