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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
KFI Handle Here. It is a Saturday morning right up
until eleven o'clock. Oh, still ticking calls at the end
of the show. By the way, I'll tell you a
little bit about that later on. I don't leave anybody hanging.
And the phone number here eight hundred five to two
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one five three more right up until eleven o'clock eight
hundred five two zero one five three four. And it
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in to I'm playing Baby Shark. Go figure. This is
Handle on the law, marginal legal advice, where I tell
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you you have absolutely no case. Now there is a
case of brewing that but for the tariff business switch
of course is getting insane coverage and everybody's paying attention
to it, not only we Americans, but all over the world.
This is disrupting everything. Certainly on the financial front. There
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is a case going on right now that is massive,
which is not being paid enough attention to because of
obvious reasons, and that is an anti trust case against Meta.
This is Mark Zuckerberg's company. We're talking about Facebook used
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to be Facebook, and the issue is Instagram and WhatsApp,
insanely successful companies and the Federal sorry about that, just
needst The Federal Trade Commission has filed a lawsuit. And
here is what is going on. The argument is that
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Meta has illegally built a social networking monopoly through years
of anti competitive conta conduct. In other words, it's buying
up various companies that compete with it, that's one thing,
and running the network, running the social media companies in
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such a way as to gain as much power and
preclude other companies. And I think it's true, and a
couple of things are going on. First of all, it
looks like pretty good evidence. Now the Trump administration has
warmed up to Zuckerberg, or the other way around. Zuckerberg
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has warmed up to the Trump administration, and the administration
is getting fairly close to Zuckerberg. But the administration, through
the FTC, is already is suing him. At the same time,
the FTC historically has been independent. It has a firewall
between the administration and this agency. Well, Trump has blown
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up all of those norms so we don't know. He's
sort of up in the air. Does he go straight
ahead and allow the lawsuit? Does he does he continue
on with that? Does he stop it cold, which he
has done with various other agencies and various procedures and prosecutions.
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You know, at this point, we don't know. We don't know.
Zuckerberg in January said to in an email to Meta employees.
We now have an opportunity to have a productive partnership
with the United States government, and we're going to take that.
I don't know what that means. But if Meta loses
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this case, and of course it's going to go to court,
you know that. And I'm sure it's going to go
to the Supreme Court, assuming they take it. If Meta loses,
then what will happen. It'll be forced to sell off
Instagram and WhatsApp. That's and by the way, all the
other tech companies, the big ones, are looking at this
one because they're going to be affected big time. Okay,
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let's go straight through some phone calls. Donald, Hello, Donald, Donald,
you're there, I am here, Can you okay? I can't?
All right? What can I do for you? Donald?
Speaker 3 (04:28):
I operated an outdoor antique flea market. We do not
permit dogs except service dogs. Hundreds of people come with dogs.
What can I cash is ask them about whether they're
a service dog or not.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
You ask them if they're a service dog straight out,
you go, big signs is service dogs only we have there? Okay?
Then someone comes in, someone comes in, and if they're
in your flea market, you go, you say, is this
a service dog? They go yes, or they go no,
and you ask. And by the way, if they buy
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a vest and you can get a service dog vest
on Amazon for twelve bucks, you say, I want to
see the certification, and the certification it has to be
certified by a quote legitimate, legitimate company that does train
service dogs and certifies my daughter has a service dog and.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
It was as a certification.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Yes, ask, Yes, you can ask, you can ask. And
if they throw them out, do you do you own
a shotgun by any chance.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Of course?
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Okay, okay, okay, well you know consider that, yeah said,
that's a good you know what, that's a good question.
I go, Okay. I don't know if you've listened to
this show, but over the years I have given two
pieces of advice to folks regarding custody et cetera. And
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that is one kill the wife. Usually it's a man,
kill the wife or kill the dog. If I've ever said,
every time I say kill the dog, I get hundreds
of emails and death threats. Now when I say kill
the wife, I get dozens of emails that say, you're
absolutely right.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
Bill.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Couldn't agree with you more.
Speaker 6 (06:21):
So.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Yeah, you can ask for the certification, and if they
don't give it to you, throw them out. What are
they gonna do?
Speaker 6 (06:26):
So you They're.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Gonna go to court and get a court order mandating
you let them in. If they want to spend that
dog that many thousands of dollars, let him do it.
And then and then if the court order hits you,
you'll let him in and then you grab your shake. Okay,
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This is handle on the law. Say f I handle
here on a Saturday morning. Back we go more Handle
on the law. Marginal legal advice. Hey Kevin, you're up, welcome?
Speaker 5 (08:31):
Yeah, yeah, Kevin, go ahead, Yeah, can you hear me?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I can, yeah, okay.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
So I'm involved in a pretty bad divorce.
Speaker 6 (08:40):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
So last summer, you know, since the court, they contacted
through regular mail. So my wife she hid the mail
from me, she put it away. I didn't get any
any mail. And there was a hearing last summer that
I didn't show up for because I had no idea
about it. And so she went to the herring told
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the judge and I didn't show up.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
I just wasn't.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
So I had a judgment against me. And so she
you know, they gave her my house and everything else,
so you know, which kind of made me angry. Now,
So I once I found out about this, I went
to the court and I, uh, I filled out the
court papers for another hearing, so so I can have
a hearing to to uh ask the judge if you
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can set aside that the last one was yeah, okay.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
So you have a date. You have a date for
the hearing, right, yes, I do? Okay, good, good, Okay,
So you've done half of the you've done half of
it so.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
Far exactly, So okay, so yesterday, okay, So anyway, I
have this hearing, and I clearly explained on the on
the papers. Why this herring is clearly explained that she
lied to me and I didn't get this and I
need to have a have him look at this and
set aside this judgment. Okay, So now her lawyer contacted
me and uh, I want they want. He wants to
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set up a zoom.
Speaker 6 (09:57):
Meeting for next week.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
Uh and uh for for a a deposition on this
on this hearing. So I told him I clearly explained,
Uh what.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Kevin, that doesn't that doesn't matter. You can clearly explain
till the cows come home. What he wants to do.
The lawyer wants to do is get you to be
to conflict yourself so you can argue, Wait a minute,
didn't you say in the deposition this and if the
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lawyer is good, the questions are set up so you
do exactly that.
Speaker 6 (10:37):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
There're the lawyers. Good lawyers are very clever in how
they do this. They are experts in this, and you
are not. Do you have a divorce attorney?
Speaker 5 (10:47):
No, I get one?
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Get one?
Speaker 5 (10:51):
But well it's too late now, No it's not.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
No, it's not you get one before the deposition. You
get you hire, you hire a divorce attorney right now.
You should have one in the hearing anyway, but you
should have one for the hearing.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
What do I Okay, yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Yes you do. Yes, you're up against You're up against
the divorce lawyer, Kevin, and you've already lost your house
and now you're trying to get it back and you're
trying to undo a default. I mean, this is not
easy stuff. Kevin, get a lawyer. Now, he's not he's
not gonna be able to he's not going to be
able to stop the deposition. But he's he's able to
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say things like, uh, Kevin, don't answer that question, or
I'm I argue, I'm saying that you. I'll let you
answer it. But under whatever circumstances, I don't do depositions clearly,
and I'm not doing a really terrific job of explaining myself.
But then I never do either. But you know, get a.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
Lawyer question, but Bill, do I have to do this
deposition that?
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Yes, yes, once you're noticed, you have to do a deposition. Yes,
it's a court order. And and the lawyer is going
to get a court order. Now if he just says
i'd like to depose you, then you can say no,
thank you.
Speaker 5 (12:12):
Well, that's what it is. He just it's just he
wants to depose me too.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Then you just say no. Then you just until you
are ordered. You just say no, you go, I'm not
going to go to a deposition, just not interested. And
then if he wants to oppose you, he goes out
and forces the issue, which he can do, and the
court will order a deposition. Okay, so he's allowed, he's
allowed to know, he's allowed to notice the deposition. Get
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a lawyer. That's what you need, Martha or Monica. Hi, Monica,
Hi do Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
My father was gravely injured in an accident and died
a couple of hours later at a local hospital.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Boom.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
It wasn't until three weeks later that I heard from
the county Coroner's office saying, Hey, did you realize that
your dad's still here? Sorry to tell you he passed.
I'm just wondering. I'm not at all difficult to find,
same phone number for thirty years, live in Orange County.
He lived out in Palm Desert. I'm just wondering, how
or why did I not hear from the sheriff.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
I'll tell you why because probably probably yeah, it probably
fell through the cracks, which is why, I mean, there's
no upside for them not to tell you. And how
would they by the way, how would they know to
contact you? I'm assuming that he had all the ID
on him, correct, he did? Okay, so you should have
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been contacted. What happened to your dad after he died?
I mean three weeks? What do they do?
Speaker 4 (13:41):
He was just apparently he was taken to a local hospital.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Grigley, No, no, I understand that. But what do they do?
What do they do with him after he died? What
did he do with his body?
Speaker 4 (13:52):
He apparently went to the corner's office and he.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
Was on ice first.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Yeah, I understand, but what so here you are three
weeks later? What do you do? Keep him on eye?
What did you do?
Speaker 5 (14:02):
What did you do?
Speaker 2 (14:03):
What did you do with the body.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
They eventually got around to reaching out to me saying, hey,
are you gonna?
Speaker 6 (14:11):
Are you okay?
Speaker 2 (14:11):
So?
Speaker 6 (14:12):
Did you so?
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Did you were you able to were you able to
pick up your dad?
Speaker 7 (14:16):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (14:16):
Yeah, yeah, okay? Got it?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
And the reason I asked, Monica, the reason I ask
it's a very different animal if they cremate him, and
they could have uh contacted you and you don't have
the ability to bury him. And that's that's a whole
different thing. So they kept him for three weeks, they
didn't tell you, and then they go, here's your dad.
He's a little cold because he's been in the refrigerator. Understood,
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but you were able to But you were able to
bury him. The answer is do you have any recourse?
Probably not? Probably not. I mean there's you know, it's okay.
Uh yeah, I mean they shouldn't have screwed up. And
not much emotional damage do you have now? As I said, uh,
they buried him and I wasn't there. They cremated him
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and I didn't know about it, and I wanted to
bury him. That's a whole different animal. Now you're talking
some emotional distress. But you know, three weeks he's on ice. Yeah,
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Speaker 1 (16:50):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
KFI Handle here on a Saturday morning back go Handle
on the law, marginal legal ad vice. Francis, Hello, Francis, Hello.
Speaker 8 (17:10):
Yes, I have a verse mortgage house and that will
be in my will. And I was just wondering when
I passed on to the whatever do my sons have
to contact them or was it done in the will
or what?
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Well, first of all, the house is out of the will. Okay,
it's a reverse mortgage. You cannot leave your reverse mortgage
home to anybody that goes to the mortgage company, the
people that gave you the money. And when you die
or sell the house, and do they have to contact you?
Know what? Frances, let me ask you a question, what
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do you carry? You're dead at that point. Let them
worry about.
Speaker 6 (17:51):
The deserve you know.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Oh no, they're going to get nothing. They're going Frances,
they're getting nothing. They don't get the house.
Speaker 8 (18:02):
Okay, but if my house is going to be worth
more than.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Oh yeah, okay, yeah, and it's yeah, then they would
that would go into your estate. And okay, fair enough,
that goes into your estate unless you've used all of
the money Uh, into of the reverse mortgage. If you've
you've used all the money, there's nothing there. Uh, then
the mortgage company owns all of it. Yeah, well you
have a will that says any money that's left goes
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to your kids. And yeah, I think they have they
have a duty of telling who's ever the executor of
your estate has a duty to tell them. Yeah, and
if it turns out it's your kids, then they it
works out between the mortgage company and then they do
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credits and offsets. But you know, again, Francis, you're dead
at that point. Seriously. I mean, I have a trust
and I leave it for my kids, and it's shit.
It's pretty sloppy, and yeah, I don't know, let them
fly over it because you're dead. It's not that complicated,
you know. People, Oh my god, I want to dear
with my kids. Why you've done that already for God's sake?
(19:12):
Come on? Is that mark or marque? How? How is that?
How do you pronounce your name's mark? Mark? But it's
m A r q u E. Interesting spelling.
Speaker 6 (19:26):
It's called French and it would be the Marquis if
we was in Paris, but we're here in America. So
it's Mark.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Huh. Okay, yeah, I'm sure. Why not.
Speaker 6 (19:39):
Congratulations on your marriage.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Oh, thank you, yeah, thank you. I got it. You
know that's like bree you know, bree cheese and French
uh is sort of bree cheese here it's pronounced the same.
But anyway, let's move on. What can I do for you? Mark?
Speaker 6 (19:55):
Hey, boss, I got a seven and we found out,
like maybe tween years ago that he was not my
biological He looked more and more like my partner I
grew up with. Anyway, grand on, he dislikes both of us.
He will not have a sit down with me because
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he has my name. I was done when he was born.
But his biological father, you know, he's not in the picture,
but he's around. My son is of some age where
if anything, I've done well for myself. I still work
for the City of Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Okay, all right, you're kind of I mean, this is
a really it's really rotten line. So, okay, your son
not biological, you're doing okay, you have assets, you're not
talking to him, you're estranged, granted, okay, and he's using
your last name. Got it? So what's your question?
Speaker 6 (20:57):
So, if anything, happens to me. He could challenge my
mother and my brother.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Yeah, and he could.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
He could.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
But you know, but Mark, you have a will. You
have a will that's specific. It doesn't matter what name
he's using. Anybody can use your name. I can use
your name, change my name legally to your name, Mark,
although I never do that. M A r q U E.
Cherry strange, So that part doesn't matter. The easy way
to now, if you did not have a will, then
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he comes in and makes the argument that he is
your son, and then there's all kinds of rules to that.
If he held you, if you held him out as
a son, it goes on and on. If you supported him.
I mean, but those are rules that I have nothing
to do here.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
If you write a will that specifically says he does
not get any property, none, then you're gonna be okay.
By the way, let me ask you, your wife was
stooping your friend? Do I have that right?
Speaker 6 (22:00):
We were kids and we weren't married, and it was
just a situation at.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Okay, you didn't but you didn't know that. Were you
okay with him stooping? Who was going to be your
future wife?
Speaker 6 (22:14):
She is my future wife okay, So.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Okay, got it. It was both both of you were
having sex with her, and you thought it was her kid.
Speaker 6 (22:23):
Right, I thought it was kid.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
No, you thought it was your kid. But obviously both
of you were having sex with her.
Speaker 6 (22:31):
Something like that.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Yeah, something like that at the same time or different.
Speaker 6 (22:35):
Times, probably the same.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Time, exactly. Just yeah, it was dark and you really
didn't know. There were just a lot of arms and
legs there in the room, and you weren't paying attention.
Speaker 8 (22:46):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Just yeah, you're getting some rotten line. But go ahead
to guy.
Speaker 6 (23:00):
He said he gets cut of cars, and he gave
him the situation. You asked him as he was hey,
and he said, no, and you that's the conversation. He
was offline. He said, how does the guy get cut
a car and not be gay? Well, I love pedicures,
I take.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Care of mine, you love, I asked, okay, I asked,
how does the guy get a pedicare and not be gay? Okay?
And then you and you love and you love pedicures. Right, Yeah,
you're gay. Yeah, Mark, you're gay. It's that simple. You
can deny it all you want. You're gay. Uh, hey,
maybe that's why the kid isn't yours, no idea? Oh
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how am I doing for a time? We're doing? Uh
doing well? Okay? Uh uh? Who do I want here? Okay? Deanna?
Speaker 8 (23:53):
Hello, Hi Bill? Can you hear me?
Speaker 2 (23:56):
I can? Actually this line is good? All right? What
can I do for you?
Speaker 8 (24:00):
Very good?
Speaker 9 (24:01):
I had a meeting with my parents and their financial advisors,
just kind of a review of their affairs. My mother
was very ill at the time, and we reviewed everything,
including a custodial account that my mother had set up
for my three grandchildren. Fast forward, my mother passed away,
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and my father and I went back to just kind
of move put things in his name or my name,
do that. And we learned that the financial advisors went
ahead and stopped contributing to the custodial accounts because they
said that my mother told them to during that meeting,
which could never be the case. My mother loved those peops.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Okay, hang on a minute, so okay, she stopped contributing.
She stopped contributing, right.
Speaker 9 (24:49):
They said that she told them.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Okay, I understand, Okay, Where so it was her money
that was going into an account for your kids, correct, yes,
for her grandchildren? Okay, And where's the money and where
is that money now if it didn't go into the
accounts for the grandchildren.
Speaker 9 (25:09):
It's still in an account for them.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Okay, So they're going to get the money no matter what.
They will.
Speaker 9 (25:17):
But they're very young and there's no money going to it.
Speaker 7 (25:20):
And he's saying, we need a court document now, okay, then.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Get a court Then get a court get a court document. Okay,
get a court document. By the way, you have no
standing here. It's the Uh, it's the grandkids who have
all the standing in the world. So unless you are
the trustee of this account where you control the account
and it's for the benefit of your grandkids, and then
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there's a guarding med item thing.
Speaker 10 (25:44):
So uh.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
The bottom line is, just get them to put the
money in. Get a court order. Just get a court order,
and pay yourself out out of the money that's going in.
Just make it easy for yourself. Just make it. You know,
you want to make it as easy as you can.
You know, it's it's sometimes yes, you can do it,
but why yeah, go ahead and file and go to
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court and you're going to win. Why is it worth
the hassle? And I get the questions all the time
about wills and trusts, and I want to take care
of this person, and I want to make absolutely sure
you gotta die. You're dead, you're sitting and rotting someplace,
you know, relax, enjoy your death for God's sake. This
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is Handle on the Law. It's k FI handle here.
It is a Saturday morning right up until eleven o'clock
eight hundred five two zero one five three four eight
hundred five two zero one five three four And welcome
back to Handle on the Law. Why am I getting
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everybody is dying today? Man? I'm getting so many questions
regarding wills and trusts and what happens to me when
I die, when my mother dies. And you know, as
much as I like to do this show, I have
to be honest with you. I really don't care. I
just don't give a ratch. So with that in mind,
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let's go to Jerry. Hi, Jerry, Welcome, good Morningville.
Speaker 7 (27:18):
I've been trying to deal with the situation for about
a year and a half. Now I live in California,
but I had quite a bit of furniture stored in Florida,
so about a year and a half ago I sent
for it. Now, the reason I kept the furniture in
Florida is They told me that my pod was stored
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inside in an air conditioned building, So I thought that
might be better for my furniture than bringing it and
storing it in California. Heaped so a year and a
half ago I got my furniture. I couldn't believe the
condition it was in. I lost so much furniture due
to moisture.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Okay, you got it, all right, So they screwed up,
all right, I got it. They screwed up. How much?
How much money did you lose? If you had to
replace the furniture? What do you think it's worth?
Speaker 7 (28:11):
I don't three thousand, four thousand?
Speaker 5 (28:13):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Why haven't you sued them a small claims court?
Speaker 4 (28:17):
That's what I had to know.
Speaker 7 (28:18):
I'm in California, but they were in Floria.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Where did the contract take place? This is a national company, correct, right?
Speaker 6 (28:26):
Right?
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Okay? So and they do business in California. So because
they do business in California, and you are in California,
and I'm assuming the lice of the contract was written
in California, although it really doesn't matter. Here's what is
going on if they don't have an office in California,
any place where you can physically serve them. What they
(28:47):
do have is an agent for service for a service
services process, and you can find out who their agent is,
who is registered, and the address and all of that
information from the Secretary of State of California. And then
you sue them by by serving the agent. And then
(29:14):
you've got a lawsuit and they can show up or
not show up, and then you do your story. And
that's how you do it.
Speaker 7 (29:21):
Okay, they offered me two hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Then don't take it. You don't know they get out
for you whatever the hell you want. You know, if
it's worth five thousand dollars, they can offer you four
four ninety nine dollars, you can say no, Okay, all right,
that's that's easy. Danny, Hi, Danny, welcome.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
Hi.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
How are you doing sir? What can I do for you?
Speaker 10 (29:47):
I recently receive it, excuse me, an amravement tax bill
formed a risk for Texas old in twenty twenty one.
It seems that somebody used by identity to work for
delivery company food delivery company in San Francisco, and they
(30:09):
are known for that that company.
Speaker 6 (30:12):
So my question is do I have a legal records
against them?
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Yeah, you don't want to. You can go against them,
but why don't you just get it straightened out with
the I R S. Okay, that's more. That's more important.
How much money are we? How much money have you lost?
Speaker 4 (30:29):
And what do they do?
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Do they make you whole?
Speaker 10 (30:32):
Did they say that it's gonna take anywhere from twelve
to eighteen months?
Speaker 2 (30:35):
No?
Speaker 6 (30:36):
Figure out?
Speaker 2 (30:37):
All right?
Speaker 10 (30:37):
In the meantime, they're gonna postedly garnished my income.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Well, I think I think at this point, I think
if there's any if there's any legitimatey or claim, I
think you can stop that. There are ways of stopping that.
You're gonna need someone to help you with that. There
are these companies that do that, these companies that deal
with tax They resolve tax problems. You're probably gonna have
(31:05):
to go to one of them. And you can go
after the guy who stole your identity? Do you know
who it is? I have no idea this, all right?
So when you say can I go after them? Who
are you going after? Well?
Speaker 10 (31:19):
The company is the foot delivery company that I'm speaking about.
They are in a class actual lawsuit because of that.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
All right, so you're part of the class. Then what
are you gonna do hire a lawyer and go individually
after a company?
Speaker 6 (31:35):
No, No, I have no idea. That's what I'm calling this.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Okay, Well, first of all, if you hire a lawyer,
you're gonna have to pay for a lawyer. Okay, if
you're part of the class action that's already being covered
now for companies involved with this, then they did it
to a lot of people. Chances are you're never going
to see your money, You're never gonna be able to
go after that. So deal with the IRS. Hire one
of these companies, do a little bit of research, Hire
(31:59):
one of the these companies that goes in and represents
you in front of the IRS. And that's the way
it's going to go. And it's gonna cost you some money,
but there's no way around it. I mean, you got
completely screwed. And you know, I also I would consider
and I don't even know if if these identity protection
(32:22):
companies protect against this kind of activity, that is, someone
uses your name and files to get any tax return
you get, I don't know, or any tax refund you get.
I don't know the answer. But that's what you're going
to have to do. You're going to have to need
a pro on this. I don't think you need a
lawyer either. You need one of those companies that can
(32:44):
deal with the IRS for you, because well, you're dealing
with the I R S right, all right. I want
to talk to you about your company. And let's say
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business isn't using AI, you're probably losing money, you're probably
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
KFI Handle Here. It is a Saturday morning right up
until eleven o'clock. Oh, still ticking calls at the end
of the show. By the way, I'll tell you a
little bit about that later on. I don't leave anybody hanging.
And the phone number here eight hundred five to two
zero one five three four, eight hundred five two zero
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one five three more right up until eleven o'clock eight
hundred five two zero one five three four. And it
looks like this hour so far. No baby Shark, which
is good. God runs a gamut from you can't get
in to I'm playing Baby Shark. Go figure. This is
Handle on the law, marginal legal advice, where I tell
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you you have absolutely no case. Now there is a
case of brewing that but for the tariff business switch
of course is getting insane coverage and everybody's paying attention
to it, not only we Americans, but all over the world.
This is disrupting everything. Certainly on the financial front. There
(01:17):
is a case going on right now that is massive,
which is not being paid enough attention to because of
obvious reasons, and that is an anti trust case against Meta.
This is Mark Zuckerberg's company. We're talking about Facebook used
(01:37):
to be Facebook, and the issue is Instagram and WhatsApp,
insanely successful companies and the Federal sorry about that, just
needst The Federal Trade Commission has filed a lawsuit. And
here is what is going on. The argument is that
(02:01):
Meta has illegally built a social networking monopoly through years
of anti competitive conta conduct. In other words, it's buying
up various companies that compete with it, that's one thing,
and running the network, running the social media companies in
(02:21):
such a way as to gain as much power and
preclude other companies. And I think it's true, and a
couple of things are going on. First of all, it
looks like pretty good evidence. Now the Trump administration has
warmed up to Zuckerberg, or the other way around. Zuckerberg
(02:41):
has warmed up to the Trump administration, and the administration
is getting fairly close to Zuckerberg. But the administration, through
the FTC, is already is suing him. At the same time,
the FTC historically has been independent. It has a firewall
between the administration and this agency. Well, Trump has blown
(03:04):
up all of those norms so we don't know. He's
sort of up in the air. Does he go straight
ahead and allow the lawsuit? Does he does he continue
on with that? Does he stop it cold, which he
has done with various other agencies and various procedures and prosecutions.
(03:28):
You know, at this point, we don't know. We don't know.
Zuckerberg in January said to in an email to Meta employees.
We now have an opportunity to have a productive partnership
with the United States government, and we're going to take that.
I don't know what that means. But if Meta loses
(03:49):
this case, and of course it's going to go to court,
you know that. And I'm sure it's going to go
to the Supreme Court, assuming they take it. If Meta loses,
then what will happen. It'll be forced to sell off
Instagram and WhatsApp. That's and by the way, all the
other tech companies, the big ones, are looking at this
one because they're going to be affected big time. Okay,
(04:12):
let's go straight through some phone calls. Donald, Hello, Donald, Donald,
you're there, I am here, Can you okay? I can't?
All right? What can I do for you? Donald?
Speaker 3 (04:28):
I operated an outdoor antique flea market. We do not
permit dogs except service dogs. Hundreds of people come with dogs.
What can I cash is ask them about whether they're
a service dog or not.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
You ask them if they're a service dog straight out,
you go, big signs is service dogs only we have there? Okay?
Then someone comes in, someone comes in, and if they're
in your flea market, you go, you say, is this
a service dog? They go yes, or they go no,
and you ask. And by the way, if they buy
(05:04):
a vest and you can get a service dog vest
on Amazon for twelve bucks, you say, I want to
see the certification, and the certification it has to be
certified by a quote legitimate, legitimate company that does train
service dogs and certifies my daughter has a service dog and.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
It was as a certification.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Yes, ask, Yes, you can ask, you can ask. And
if they throw them out, do you do you own
a shotgun by any chance.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Of course?
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Okay, okay, okay, well you know consider that, yeah said,
that's a good you know what, that's a good question.
I go, Okay. I don't know if you've listened to
this show, but over the years I have given two
pieces of advice to folks regarding custody et cetera. And
(05:58):
that is one kill the wife. Usually it's a man,
kill the wife or kill the dog. If I've ever said,
every time I say kill the dog, I get hundreds
of emails and death threats. Now when I say kill
the wife, I get dozens of emails that say, you're
absolutely right.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
Bill.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Couldn't agree with you more.
Speaker 6 (06:21):
So.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Yeah, you can ask for the certification, and if they
don't give it to you, throw them out. What are
they gonna do?
Speaker 6 (06:26):
So you They're.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Gonna go to court and get a court order mandating
you let them in. If they want to spend that
dog that many thousands of dollars, let him do it.
And then and then if the court order hits you,
you'll let him in and then you grab your shake. Okay,
there you go. That's well all right? Uh uh oh,
(06:48):
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This is handle on the law. Say f I handle
here on a Saturday morning. Back we go more Handle
on the law. Marginal legal advice. Hey Kevin, you're up, welcome?
Speaker 5 (08:31):
Yeah, yeah, Kevin, go ahead, Yeah, can you hear me?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I can, yeah, okay.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
So I'm involved in a pretty bad divorce.
Speaker 6 (08:40):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
So last summer, you know, since the court, they contacted
through regular mail. So my wife she hid the mail
from me, she put it away. I didn't get any
any mail. And there was a hearing last summer that
I didn't show up for because I had no idea
about it. And so she went to the herring told
(09:01):
the judge and I didn't show up.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
I just wasn't.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
So I had a judgment against me. And so she
you know, they gave her my house and everything else,
so you know, which kind of made me angry. Now,
So I once I found out about this, I went
to the court and I, uh, I filled out the
court papers for another hearing, so so I can have
a hearing to to uh ask the judge if you
(09:23):
can set aside that the last one was yeah, okay.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
So you have a date. You have a date for
the hearing, right, yes, I do? Okay, good, good, Okay,
So you've done half of the you've done half of
it so.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
Far exactly, So okay, so yesterday, okay, So anyway, I
have this hearing, and I clearly explained on the on
the papers. Why this herring is clearly explained that she
lied to me and I didn't get this and I
need to have a have him look at this and
set aside this judgment. Okay, So now her lawyer contacted
me and uh, I want they want. He wants to
(09:56):
set up a zoom.
Speaker 6 (09:57):
Meeting for next week.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
Uh and uh for for a a deposition on this
on this hearing. So I told him I clearly explained,
Uh what.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Kevin, that doesn't that doesn't matter. You can clearly explain
till the cows come home. What he wants to do.
The lawyer wants to do is get you to be
to conflict yourself so you can argue, Wait a minute,
didn't you say in the deposition this and if the
(10:32):
lawyer is good, the questions are set up so you
do exactly that.
Speaker 6 (10:37):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
There're the lawyers. Good lawyers are very clever in how
they do this. They are experts in this, and you
are not. Do you have a divorce attorney?
Speaker 5 (10:47):
No, I get one?
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Get one?
Speaker 5 (10:51):
But well it's too late now, No it's not.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
No, it's not you get one before the deposition. You
get you hire, you hire a divorce attorney right now.
You should have one in the hearing anyway, but you
should have one for the hearing.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
What do I Okay, yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Yes you do. Yes, you're up against You're up against
the divorce lawyer, Kevin, and you've already lost your house
and now you're trying to get it back and you're
trying to undo a default. I mean, this is not
easy stuff. Kevin, get a lawyer. Now, he's not he's
not gonna be able to he's not going to be
able to stop the deposition. But he's he's able to
(11:32):
say things like, uh, Kevin, don't answer that question, or
I'm I argue, I'm saying that you. I'll let you
answer it. But under whatever circumstances, I don't do depositions clearly,
and I'm not doing a really terrific job of explaining myself.
But then I never do either. But you know, get a.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
Lawyer question, but Bill, do I have to do this
deposition that?
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Yes, yes, once you're noticed, you have to do a deposition. Yes,
it's a court order. And and the lawyer is going
to get a court order. Now if he just says
i'd like to depose you, then you can say no,
thank you.
Speaker 5 (12:12):
Well, that's what it is. He just it's just he
wants to depose me too.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Then you just say no. Then you just until you
are ordered. You just say no, you go, I'm not
going to go to a deposition, just not interested. And
then if he wants to oppose you, he goes out
and forces the issue, which he can do, and the
court will order a deposition. Okay, so he's allowed, he's
allowed to know, he's allowed to notice the deposition. Get
(12:37):
a lawyer. That's what you need, Martha or Monica. Hi, Monica,
Hi do Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
My father was gravely injured in an accident and died
a couple of hours later at a local hospital.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Boom.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
It wasn't until three weeks later that I heard from
the county Coroner's office saying, Hey, did you realize that
your dad's still here? Sorry to tell you he passed.
I'm just wondering. I'm not at all difficult to find,
same phone number for thirty years, live in Orange County.
He lived out in Palm Desert. I'm just wondering, how
or why did I not hear from the sheriff.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
I'll tell you why because probably probably yeah, it probably
fell through the cracks, which is why, I mean, there's
no upside for them not to tell you. And how
would they by the way, how would they know to
contact you? I'm assuming that he had all the ID
on him, correct, he did? Okay, so you should have
(13:35):
been contacted. What happened to your dad after he died?
I mean three weeks? What do they do?
Speaker 4 (13:41):
He was just apparently he was taken to a local hospital.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Grigley, No, no, I understand that. But what do they do?
What do they do with him after he died? What
did he do with his body?
Speaker 4 (13:52):
He apparently went to the corner's office and he.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
Was on ice first.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Yeah, I understand, but what so here you are three
weeks later? What do you do? Keep him on eye?
What did you do?
Speaker 5 (14:02):
What did you do?
Speaker 2 (14:03):
What did you do with the body.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
They eventually got around to reaching out to me saying, hey,
are you gonna?
Speaker 6 (14:11):
Are you okay?
Speaker 2 (14:11):
So?
Speaker 6 (14:12):
Did you so?
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Did you were you able to were you able to
pick up your dad?
Speaker 7 (14:16):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (14:16):
Yeah, yeah, okay? Got it?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
And the reason I asked, Monica, the reason I ask
it's a very different animal if they cremate him, and
they could have uh contacted you and you don't have
the ability to bury him. And that's that's a whole
different thing. So they kept him for three weeks, they
didn't tell you, and then they go, here's your dad.
He's a little cold because he's been in the refrigerator. Understood,
(14:40):
but you were able to But you were able to
bury him. The answer is do you have any recourse?
Probably not? Probably not. I mean there's you know, it's okay.
Uh yeah, I mean they shouldn't have screwed up. And
not much emotional damage do you have now? As I said, uh,
they buried him and I wasn't there. They cremated him
(15:02):
and I didn't know about it, and I wanted to
bury him. That's a whole different animal. Now you're talking
some emotional distress. But you know, three weeks he's on ice. Yeah,
it's not fun. You know, I don't know how much
money that's worth. And what is the lawyer going to
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(15:23):
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You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
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Speaker 2 (16:56):
KFI Handle here on a Saturday morning back go Handle
on the law, marginal legal ad vice. Francis, Hello, Francis, Hello.
Speaker 8 (17:10):
Yes, I have a verse mortgage house and that will
be in my will. And I was just wondering when
I passed on to the whatever do my sons have
to contact them or was it done in the will
or what?
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Well, first of all, the house is out of the will. Okay,
it's a reverse mortgage. You cannot leave your reverse mortgage
home to anybody that goes to the mortgage company, the
people that gave you the money. And when you die
or sell the house, and do they have to contact you?
Know what? Frances, let me ask you a question, what
(17:47):
do you carry? You're dead at that point. Let them
worry about.
Speaker 6 (17:51):
The deserve you know.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Oh no, they're going to get nothing. They're going Frances,
they're getting nothing. They don't get the house.
Speaker 8 (18:02):
Okay, but if my house is going to be worth
more than.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Oh yeah, okay, yeah, and it's yeah, then they would
that would go into your estate. And okay, fair enough,
that goes into your estate unless you've used all of
the money Uh, into of the reverse mortgage. If you've
you've used all the money, there's nothing there. Uh, then
the mortgage company owns all of it. Yeah, well you
have a will that says any money that's left goes
(18:27):
to your kids. And yeah, I think they have they
have a duty of telling who's ever the executor of
your estate has a duty to tell them. Yeah, and
if it turns out it's your kids, then they it
works out between the mortgage company and then they do
(18:48):
credits and offsets. But you know, again, Francis, you're dead
at that point. Seriously. I mean, I have a trust
and I leave it for my kids, and it's shit.
It's pretty sloppy, and yeah, I don't know, let them
fly over it because you're dead. It's not that complicated,
you know. People, Oh my god, I want to dear
with my kids. Why you've done that already for God's sake?
(19:12):
Come on? Is that mark or marque? How? How is that?
How do you pronounce your name's mark? Mark? But it's
m A r q u E. Interesting spelling.
Speaker 6 (19:26):
It's called French and it would be the Marquis if
we was in Paris, but we're here in America. So
it's Mark.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Huh. Okay, yeah, I'm sure. Why not.
Speaker 6 (19:39):
Congratulations on your marriage.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Oh, thank you, yeah, thank you. I got it. You
know that's like bree you know, bree cheese and French
uh is sort of bree cheese here it's pronounced the same.
But anyway, let's move on. What can I do for you? Mark?
Speaker 6 (19:55):
Hey, boss, I got a seven and we found out,
like maybe tween years ago that he was not my
biological He looked more and more like my partner I
grew up with. Anyway, grand on, he dislikes both of us.
He will not have a sit down with me because
(20:17):
he has my name. I was done when he was born.
But his biological father, you know, he's not in the picture,
but he's around. My son is of some age where
if anything, I've done well for myself. I still work
for the City of Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Okay, all right, you're kind of I mean, this is
a really it's really rotten line. So, okay, your son
not biological, you're doing okay, you have assets, you're not
talking to him, you're estranged, granted, okay, and he's using
your last name. Got it? So what's your question?
Speaker 6 (20:57):
So, if anything, happens to me. He could challenge my
mother and my brother.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Yeah, and he could.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
He could.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
But you know, but Mark, you have a will. You
have a will that's specific. It doesn't matter what name
he's using. Anybody can use your name. I can use
your name, change my name legally to your name, Mark,
although I never do that. M A r q U E.
Cherry strange, So that part doesn't matter. The easy way
to now, if you did not have a will, then
(21:27):
he comes in and makes the argument that he is
your son, and then there's all kinds of rules to that.
If he held you, if you held him out as
a son, it goes on and on. If you supported him.
I mean, but those are rules that I have nothing
to do here.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
If you write a will that specifically says he does
not get any property, none, then you're gonna be okay.
By the way, let me ask you, your wife was
stooping your friend? Do I have that right?
Speaker 6 (22:00):
We were kids and we weren't married, and it was
just a situation at.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Okay, you didn't but you didn't know that. Were you
okay with him stooping? Who was going to be your
future wife?
Speaker 6 (22:14):
She is my future wife okay, So.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Okay, got it. It was both both of you were
having sex with her, and you thought it was her kid.
Speaker 6 (22:23):
Right, I thought it was kid.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
No, you thought it was your kid. But obviously both
of you were having sex with her.
Speaker 6 (22:31):
Something like that.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Yeah, something like that at the same time or different.
Speaker 6 (22:35):
Times, probably the same.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Time, exactly. Just yeah, it was dark and you really
didn't know. There were just a lot of arms and
legs there in the room, and you weren't paying attention.
Speaker 8 (22:46):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Just yeah, you're getting some rotten line. But go ahead
to guy.
Speaker 6 (23:00):
He said he gets cut of cars, and he gave
him the situation. You asked him as he was hey,
and he said, no, and you that's the conversation. He
was offline. He said, how does the guy get cut
a car and not be gay? Well, I love pedicures,
I take.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Care of mine, you love, I asked, okay, I asked,
how does the guy get a pedicare and not be gay? Okay?
And then you and you love and you love pedicures. Right, Yeah,
you're gay. Yeah, Mark, you're gay. It's that simple. You
can deny it all you want. You're gay. Uh, hey,
maybe that's why the kid isn't yours, no idea? Oh
(23:40):
how am I doing for a time? We're doing? Uh
doing well? Okay? Uh uh? Who do I want here? Okay? Deanna?
Speaker 8 (23:53):
Hello, Hi Bill? Can you hear me?
Speaker 2 (23:56):
I can? Actually this line is good? All right? What
can I do for you?
Speaker 8 (24:00):
Very good?
Speaker 9 (24:01):
I had a meeting with my parents and their financial advisors,
just kind of a review of their affairs. My mother
was very ill at the time, and we reviewed everything,
including a custodial account that my mother had set up
for my three grandchildren. Fast forward, my mother passed away,
(24:24):
and my father and I went back to just kind
of move put things in his name or my name,
do that. And we learned that the financial advisors went
ahead and stopped contributing to the custodial accounts because they
said that my mother told them to during that meeting,
which could never be the case. My mother loved those peops.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Okay, hang on a minute, so okay, she stopped contributing.
She stopped contributing, right.
Speaker 9 (24:49):
They said that she told them.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Okay, I understand, Okay, Where so it was her money
that was going into an account for your kids, correct, yes,
for her grandchildren? Okay, And where's the money and where
is that money now if it didn't go into the
accounts for the grandchildren.
Speaker 9 (25:09):
It's still in an account for them.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Okay, So they're going to get the money no matter what.
They will.
Speaker 9 (25:17):
But they're very young and there's no money going to it.
Speaker 7 (25:20):
And he's saying, we need a court document now, okay, then.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Get a court Then get a court get a court document. Okay,
get a court document. By the way, you have no
standing here. It's the Uh, it's the grandkids who have
all the standing in the world. So unless you are
the trustee of this account where you control the account
and it's for the benefit of your grandkids, and then
(25:43):
there's a guarding med item thing.
Speaker 10 (25:44):
So uh.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
The bottom line is, just get them to put the
money in. Get a court order. Just get a court order,
and pay yourself out out of the money that's going in.
Just make it easy for yourself. Just make it. You know,
you want to make it as easy as you can.
You know, it's it's sometimes yes, you can do it,
but why yeah, go ahead and file and go to
(26:06):
court and you're going to win. Why is it worth
the hassle? And I get the questions all the time
about wills and trusts, and I want to take care
of this person, and I want to make absolutely sure
you gotta die. You're dead, you're sitting and rotting someplace,
you know, relax, enjoy your death for God's sake. This
(26:28):
is Handle on the Law. It's k FI handle here.
It is a Saturday morning right up until eleven o'clock
eight hundred five two zero one five three four eight
hundred five two zero one five three four And welcome
back to Handle on the Law. Why am I getting
(26:48):
everybody is dying today? Man? I'm getting so many questions
regarding wills and trusts and what happens to me when
I die, when my mother dies. And you know, as
much as I like to do this show, I have
to be honest with you. I really don't care. I
just don't give a ratch. So with that in mind,
(27:12):
let's go to Jerry. Hi, Jerry, Welcome, good Morningville.
Speaker 7 (27:18):
I've been trying to deal with the situation for about
a year and a half. Now I live in California,
but I had quite a bit of furniture stored in Florida,
so about a year and a half ago I sent
for it. Now, the reason I kept the furniture in
Florida is They told me that my pod was stored
(27:40):
inside in an air conditioned building, So I thought that
might be better for my furniture than bringing it and
storing it in California. Heaped so a year and a
half ago I got my furniture. I couldn't believe the
condition it was in. I lost so much furniture due
to moisture.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Okay, you got it, all right, So they screwed up,
all right, I got it. They screwed up. How much?
How much money did you lose? If you had to
replace the furniture? What do you think it's worth?
Speaker 7 (28:11):
I don't three thousand, four thousand?
Speaker 5 (28:13):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Why haven't you sued them a small claims court?
Speaker 4 (28:17):
That's what I had to know.
Speaker 7 (28:18):
I'm in California, but they were in Floria.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Where did the contract take place? This is a national company, correct, right?
Speaker 6 (28:26):
Right?
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Okay? So and they do business in California. So because
they do business in California, and you are in California,
and I'm assuming the lice of the contract was written
in California, although it really doesn't matter. Here's what is
going on if they don't have an office in California,
any place where you can physically serve them. What they
(28:47):
do have is an agent for service for a service
services process, and you can find out who their agent is,
who is registered, and the address and all of that
information from the Secretary of State of California. And then
you sue them by by serving the agent. And then
(29:14):
you've got a lawsuit and they can show up or
not show up, and then you do your story. And
that's how you do it.
Speaker 7 (29:21):
Okay, they offered me two hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Then don't take it. You don't know they get out
for you whatever the hell you want. You know, if
it's worth five thousand dollars, they can offer you four
four ninety nine dollars, you can say no, Okay, all right,
that's that's easy. Danny, Hi, Danny, welcome.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
Hi.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
How are you doing sir? What can I do for you?
Speaker 10 (29:47):
I recently receive it, excuse me, an amravement tax bill
formed a risk for Texas old in twenty twenty one.
It seems that somebody used by identity to work for
delivery company food delivery company in San Francisco, and they
(30:09):
are known for that that company.
Speaker 6 (30:12):
So my question is do I have a legal records
against them?
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Yeah, you don't want to. You can go against them,
but why don't you just get it straightened out with
the I R S. Okay, that's more. That's more important.
How much money are we? How much money have you lost?
Speaker 4 (30:29):
And what do they do?
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Do they make you whole?
Speaker 10 (30:32):
Did they say that it's gonna take anywhere from twelve
to eighteen months?
Speaker 2 (30:35):
No?
Speaker 6 (30:36):
Figure out?
Speaker 2 (30:37):
All right?
Speaker 10 (30:37):
In the meantime, they're gonna postedly garnished my income.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Well, I think I think at this point, I think
if there's any if there's any legitimatey or claim, I
think you can stop that. There are ways of stopping that.
You're gonna need someone to help you with that. There
are these companies that do that, these companies that deal
with tax They resolve tax problems. You're probably gonna have
(31:05):
to go to one of them. And you can go
after the guy who stole your identity? Do you know
who it is? I have no idea this, all right?
So when you say can I go after them? Who
are you going after? Well?
Speaker 10 (31:19):
The company is the foot delivery company that I'm speaking about.
They are in a class actual lawsuit because of that.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
All right, so you're part of the class. Then what
are you gonna do hire a lawyer and go individually
after a company?
Speaker 6 (31:35):
No, No, I have no idea. That's what I'm calling this.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Okay, Well, first of all, if you hire a lawyer,
you're gonna have to pay for a lawyer. Okay, if
you're part of the class action that's already being covered
now for companies involved with this, then they did it
to a lot of people. Chances are you're never going
to see your money, You're never gonna be able to
go after that. So deal with the IRS. Hire one
of these companies, do a little bit of research, Hire
(31:59):
one of the these companies that goes in and represents
you in front of the IRS. And that's the way
it's going to go. And it's gonna cost you some money,
but there's no way around it. I mean, you got
completely screwed. And you know, I also I would consider
and I don't even know if if these identity protection
(32:22):
companies protect against this kind of activity, that is, someone
uses your name and files to get any tax return
you get, I don't know, or any tax refund you get.
I don't know the answer. But that's what you're going
to have to do. You're going to have to need
a pro on this. I don't think you need a
lawyer either. You need one of those companies that can
(32:44):
deal with the IRS for you, because well, you're dealing
with the I R S right, all right. I want
to talk to you about your company. And let's say
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