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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from kf I
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
AM six forty Bill Handle. It is a Saturday morning.
This is our number two of the show, going up
until eleven o'clock when Richdmurrow and the Tech Show comes aboard.
But I'll be still taking phone calls. I do this
every week, and I'll explain it later on. I'll be
doing it off the air in the meantime. It is
the top of the hour. So generally, not always, but
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generally phone calls are able to come in, and we
do have lines open, which we do now, and the
number is eight hundred five two zero one five three four,
eight hundred five two zero one five three four, And
every once in a while there aren't enough calls coming
in because I go through calls pretty quickly, and we
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just you know, I don't do how are you?
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Or you know, I don't do any of that crap.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
So I go through the phone calls pretty quickly, and
occasionally the calls really drop. And so do you want
when that happens, you want to jump in because that
means lines are open, which is happening right now. Eight
hundred and five to two zero one five three four,
and you don't want to hear what happens when the
calls go below a certain a certain number when we
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hit critical mass. Yeah, you know it's no fun. All right,
let's do it. This is handle on the law, marginal
legal advice where I tell you you have absolutely no case. Now,
the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and this is we
here on the West Coast are the Ninth Circuit. There's
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ninth circuits out there, and so it's a pretty liberal
appeals court.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Used to be that, by far the most liberal. It's
kind of more conservative.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Well, they ruled this past week that California's policy of
background checks for bullet buyers violates the Second Amendment. California
is the only state that demands the background checks, which
of course you have to have anyway. I mean, anybody
buying a weapon is going to have a background check.
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But in California, when you buy ammunition, they want a
background check. So of course the lawsuit hit from the
gun advocates at this point, and.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
The court said, you know what, they're right that this
law and I'm going.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
To quote meaningfully meaningfully constrains the right to keep operable
arms guaranteed by the Constitution. In other words, what the
judge said is, you have a right to bear arms.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
It's not unreasonable for a.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Background check when you're buying one, But every time you
buy ammunition there has to be a background check. So
go to you're visiting your uncle in another city in California,
background check. You're not happy with the price at the
gun store where you normally buy, and you go down
the street a mile background check. And the court said, no,
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it ain't gonna happen, not this time. And so it
was kind of interesting. And by the way, it was
two it was three to two or two of the
three judges. I'm sorry, this was a three judge case,
and it was two to one, and I'm surprised that
the one said somehow that's constitutional.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Now.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
I am a big advocate of gun control, always have been.
Guns scare the hell out of me. I used to
go to a gun rage gun range when we had
all kinds of riots here in Los Angeles. We had
several over the last few decades. I went ahead and
bought a gun because I lived in an area where
there there was a real mess going on during one
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of the riots, so I went and got a gun
and of course I went to a gun range and
got a teacher, a certified teacher, to teach me how
to shoot the gun. And man, it was, oh, it
was a mess. Every time I shot the thing, I
got an erection. And the guy said, you know what,
You've got more problems than I can help you with.
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Go see a psychologist. Okay, yeah, it's all. It's very complicated. Okay,
let's go ahead and take some phone calls.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Here, John, Hello, you're up first. Welcome Hello John.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Yes, yes, I took my car into a mechanic here
in Montros and I'm may first. And he said he
needed six thousand dollars for parts.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
So now the dollars for parts? What was wrong with
the car?
Speaker 4 (04:47):
John, Well, I didn't know because he was a mechanic,
and he he acted as if he knew what he
was doing.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Okay, and somebody.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Kid because I'm old and he was sort of pushy. Okay, wait,
to make long story short, the car has been in
there all this time. Okay, he won't he won't let
me see it because it's in the back of his shop.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
All right, that's easy.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
How can I get there?
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Okay, here's what first, you get to do this, okay,
is you've got small claims you have to go to
what are you doing now for transportation?
Speaker 5 (05:19):
Since he's had I have my pickup truck?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Okay, so you're okay on another transportation. I would sue
him for the full twelve five hundred dollars. Now you're
only out, you're only out six thousand dollars. But I
would sue him for the whole amount for keeping it
and just throwing it in front of a judge and
seeing if.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
It's to hire an attorney.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
No, no, no, no, it's small claims, small.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Claim small claims.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Yeah, you take you go for the full amount.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
I mean, you're out six thousand, but not having a vehicle,
what's that worth? H Is the judge gonna say, I'm
not gonna give any money because I can't determine what
that worth because it's too speculative. Small claims court is
really objective stuff. You owe me a thousand dollars In
this case, I paid you six thousand. I got no service.
I want my six thousand bath that's easy.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
Just carry he's sort of physical.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Yet, why didn't you call the police.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
That's what I wanted to know to what I call
the police a little late.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
When did he do it? When's the last time he
get physical with you?
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Oh? Probably a month ago?
Speaker 2 (06:28):
All right, Yeah, i'd call the police. Sure, why not?
That doesn't put the police? Yeah, I put a police.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Report in there. Sure, and same time, sue for uh the.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Uh, sue for the six thousand dollars and everything else too, Margie, Hi, Margie, welcome.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
Thank you.
Speaker 7 (06:47):
A couple of weeks ago, I was in Trader Joe's.
I was using one of their provide that they were
giving a free plastic tote bag. I put my arm
in the tote and the sharp as a knife pointy
corner edge of the top bag splashed my left arm.
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Huh should I do? And they when I reported the incident,
they sent me a fifty dollars gift certificate. Should I
do more?
Speaker 3 (07:19):
How badly was how badly was the slash?
Speaker 7 (07:22):
Did you need to go to urgent care? It was
a Sunday. The person there used glue to put together this.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Yeah, they do that, They do that, so it was
enough of an injury where they used their version of
super glue, which they do.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
You know what?
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Yeah, I would talk to a lawyer. Fifty dollars is nothing.
Fifty dollars is absolutely nothing. Yeah, call them up and say,
come on, guys, do you want me to go.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
To a lawyer?
Speaker 2 (07:52):
And you would I would talk to a lawyer, you know,
go to the website. Now it's not to say they're
going to pick it up, but they are going to
give you some good advice as to what to do
and how much money to ask for. There isn't enough
money there for a lawyer to represent you, I don't think,
but you I would get the advice. That's what I
would do. I mean literally, if it happened to me,
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I would call one of the lawyers. And that's why
I set up handle on the law dot com for
advice and good advice as well as representation. And they're
very honest and they'll tell you, Margie, you know what
this thing is worth a couple of thousand dollars. Now,
we're not going to represent you because there's not enough
money in.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
It for us.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
But man, you don't go way beyond fifty bucks, way
beyond you know what you can ask for. They have
great Indian food there. I would ask for a year's
worth of Indian food. No, don't do that go to
the website. That's the easiest thing to do. All right,
I want to talk about well, talk about Indian food.
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I mean I love Indian food, and Trader Joe's has
great Indian food.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
And guess what the Indian food does.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Well, it really does affect your breath, doesn't it big time?
Speaker 3 (09:09):
And so what else affects your breath?
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Well, here I am in the morning and had coffee breath,
bad breath, woke up morning breath, had a garlic bagel,
garlic bagel breath. And then for lunch, I'm going to
go in there and get some the Indian food that's
in the freezer and curry, et cetera.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Boy, am I going to have a bad breath day?
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because well, the Indian food, for example, goes into my gut,
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it's still Indian food as it is digested, and that
is also a cause of bad.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Breath, and no mint in the world takes care of that.
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Speaker 3 (10:32):
This is handle on the law KFI.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Handle here on a Saturday morning right up until eleven
o'clock for the legal show number eight hundred five two
zero one five three four. We're pretty good, but we
have some lines open. Eight hundred five two zero one
five three four.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Welcome back. Handle on the law Marginal Legal Advice where
I bill handle give you insert name here Marginal Legal Advice.
Mike Hella, Mike, you're up.
Speaker 8 (11:05):
Hi Bill. About fifteen years ago, this older couple from
New York asked me to a store inside my shop
of some artwork, about twenty five or thirty paintings. The
years went by and they paid their mostly fee on time,
and everything was going fine toil about twenty twenty when
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COVID came and they both died. I have never received
another dime to keep the artwork with me. I have
sent them ten letters, certified letters. I understand that they
are dead and there are no relatives or anybody that
has ever contacted me about claiming the property. They are
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not very valuable. They are from an artist that is
not well known, and you know, it probably worth about
the same amount of money they owe me now for
the rental. But how do I go about.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Okay, actually that's a pretty good question. Yeah, that's a
good question.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
By the way, how many letters did you send them
after they're dead, because it's very hard for dead people
to answer letters.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
You know that, don't you?
Speaker 8 (12:10):
I pretty much.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Eight or ten letters to dead people. Okay, good, good
for you. Yes, Now what do you do they still
owe you rent? Theoretically there's nobody there.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
I mean, your duty is to contact the estate.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
And give the estate the proceeds or give the estate
the artwork. But if there's nobody there, I don't know.
I'd keep them? And what would you do with them
if you had them? I mean, if they're not worth anything,
what are you gonna do with them?
Speaker 9 (12:45):
No?
Speaker 8 (12:45):
No, they are worth something. I could probably get about
I don't know, twelve thirteen thousand for them.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
All right, well that's where something, Yeah, that's where something.
Speaker 6 (12:58):
You know.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
What I would do is, well, you've already you have
their last own address.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
How do you know they're dead?
Speaker 8 (13:06):
Because the last time I talked to her was doing
they call it ready bad, and she was already in
sort of a hospice and he says, let me get
better and I'll send you some money.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Okay, Okay, they have good reason to believe she's dead.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
How about her husband?
Speaker 8 (13:23):
He died even before her.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Oh all right, all right, So here I think is
the law.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
You have to go and make a reasonable attempt to
find the relatives the estate, and there theoretically have to
be a state opened up, and you have to you know,
after all this length of time and whatever I would,
I would just sell them, I would. And then your
defense is they owed the money, and you know there's
enough there. I don't think anybody's gonna bother you. You're not
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doing everything exactly right.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
But what the hell are they gonna do? What would
you do? With the money. So let's say you get
twelve thousand dollars, what do you do with that?
Speaker 8 (13:59):
Mike, I'd go to the racetrack.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
You know, I expect you to say, well, I invested.
That's great, that's great, that's terrific. You investor. You all right,
you just have to take a chance of someone coming
after you and saying we want the twelve thousand dollars.
And your defense is, but I'm owed more than twelve
thousand dollars, so you're probably okay. Uh, you know that's
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that's the practical answer. I mean, the legal answer is
the probate and you have to try to find them,
and you have to find relatives.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
And all that crap. And I don't do that. I
wouldn't for sure. Nicole, Nicole, you're up.
Speaker 10 (14:43):
Well, nice to talk to you.
Speaker 8 (14:48):
Question.
Speaker 10 (14:50):
My gold digger friend married my wealthy father. He passed
a man under suspicious circumstances, and all of a sudden,
she says, there was no will. Anyway, I found an
old will he had with my mother about thirty years ago,
and I'm wondering if there was no will with his
current wife, is the old will valuable or is it?
Speaker 6 (15:13):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (15:14):
No, no, no, you can go to a you can
go to a will that's fifty years old. You can
go to a will that's seventy five years old. There
is no issue. How much money is involved here.
Speaker 10 (15:25):
Nicole, millions of dollars?
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Okay? Yeah, yeah, it's time. You have to go to
a trust and estate lawyer, Nicole, because.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
If there is a will and she claims there is
no will, she can claim there's no will.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
All day long and here's a will.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
So yeah, I would uh yeah, and I think she's
going to have an uphill battle. I think you're going
to be fine. By the way, is her is her
name gold Digger? Is that a legal name or is
that merely a description?
Speaker 10 (15:57):
It's her middle name?
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Okay, excellent. Yeah, you want to you want to trust
in a state attorney. Uh, and you get to do
some research because this is uh, this is a big case.
If you're talking millions of dollars, and obviously it's going
to be a contested everything. So you Uh, I would
talk to anybody who has dealt with trust and estate lawyers.
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I go to your banker and say, who do you suggest? Uh,
you have to start looking. And the hard part is
that your research. That's the hard part here, Mary. Hey, Marv, Hello, Marv, welcome.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
I've heard a h.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
H.
Speaker 11 (16:45):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 3 (16:46):
I sure can Marv?
Speaker 9 (16:48):
Okay, I've got a r.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
V and I have used the shade Tree mechanic for years,
and I I dropped it off with him to fix
any leads and check out all the systems.
Speaker 11 (17:13):
He had it for months. I kept calling him monthly,
is it great?
Speaker 3 (17:19):
How many months? And Marv? How many months? Did he
have it for?
Speaker 6 (17:23):
About four?
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (17:25):
By the way, I want to make a point here,
Marv mentioned the name of someone or a company. I
have no idea if that is correct or not. I'm
telling you right now. I'm just I'm answering a legal concept. So, Marv,
you're the one that gets sued, not me if this thing,
if you're wrong on this okay. So he's had it
for four months, right yep?
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Okay? And now what.
Speaker 11 (17:51):
And he finally said he would come pick it up.
Well I went to pick it up. He hadn't any work.
Speaker 9 (18:01):
How much okay?
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Did you give it all?
Speaker 6 (18:03):
Right?
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Did you give him any money up front?
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Marv?
Speaker 9 (18:06):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (18:06):
How much did you give it?
Speaker 9 (18:08):
Well?
Speaker 6 (18:09):
Well, this I paid him?
Speaker 3 (18:14):
How much okay, one thousand dollars.
Speaker 9 (18:18):
Five hundred up front.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Okay, you paid.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Him five hundred dollars, all right, you pay him five
hundred dollars, all right.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
How much is it worth? How much is it worth?
Speaker 6 (18:29):
It's worth of fifteen thousand, okay, all right.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Here's what you get to do, all right, Marv. Here's
what you get to do.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
You get to sue him in small claims court for
the five hundred dollars. You also tell him I want it,
and if he doesn't give it to you, you call
the police and say that he has taken the car.
Now they're gonna say it's a civil matter, and it
probably is, but he's in all kinds of violations of
the law on this one. You have him for conversion,
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which means he's taken your car and the value of it.
But it's probably not worthy of your vehicle. It's not
probably worth enough. Just get your money back, Marv. Just
get your money, Get the five hundred dollars, and tell
him I want this thing back, and I want it now,
and you're going to pick it up. Can you drive it?
Speaker 9 (19:17):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Okay, then drive it off the lot. Just drive it
off the lot. Pay them five hundred dollars and go
to somebody else. Now you have a business, not Marv.
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This is handle on the law.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
It is Saturday morning, KFI handle here right up untill
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Speaker 2 (20:54):
Welcome back Handle on the Law, Marginal legal Advice, Yo, Rick,
Welcome to Handle on the Law.
Speaker 8 (21:02):
I spoke to you the other day about a company that.
Speaker 12 (21:07):
Bought a company that I bought a product from and
are refusing to honor their warranty.
Speaker 8 (21:14):
And you said, they have to honor the warranty.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Yeah, they do.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
They bought, they bought the assets of the company. Uh,
unless it went through bankruptcy. And uh, the judge said,
you you're done with warranties.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
You're not.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
You're not picking up the liabilities, which happens all the time.
But if it's simply a purchase, outright, they're picking up
the liabilities and one of them is the warranty.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
So I haven't changed my tune.
Speaker 12 (21:43):
Okay, Well, how do I find out about this bankruptcy business?
Speaker 9 (21:47):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (21:47):
You you you you can go to court, you can
pull it out.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
There are all kinds of records.
Speaker 8 (21:52):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
And I'm talking about how do you find in county court?
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Because it's a federal bankruptcy as a federal issue. How
do you do that? You know, I've never pulled record.
I mean there, it's a public document. You know, to
go to the website, go to the internet and just
start putting in bankruptcy, name of the company and see
if a bankruptcy was filed.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
That's easy.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
You can also call them up and ask if they
were bankrupt. But it's a public document. If you see
a bankruptcy, you should have gotten noticed. By the way,
if there was a bankruptcy, because you're you're a debtor.
And if you and if you've gotten nothing, chances are
that they didn't go bankrupt or the new company didn't
buy a bankrupt company, because that doesn't happen very often.
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They just buy companies. And so the warranty is still good.
And what product do you have, Rick.
Speaker 8 (22:47):
I have a California two size air mattress.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Okay, And how much money is the mattress worth?
Speaker 9 (22:56):
One dollars?
Speaker 3 (22:58):
All right? So you sue the company for one hundred.
Speaker 12 (23:01):
Oh I call when I call you the number, the
original number that I have, I get the new company
can tell them.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
They owe you, tell them they owe you the money.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
You find out who the new company is, and you
file a small claim suit naming the old company as
well as a new company, and you just sew in.
You go, I want one hundred and eighty dollars. Now,
no one's going to show up. You'll get a default
judgment probably. Yeah, they owe you the money. Nothing has changed. Now,
it's a question of just filing a small claim suit
and collecting it. They have to honor the warranty. It's
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not that simple.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
They're just saying no. They're just saying no, it's a
breach of contract.
Speaker 9 (23:40):
Okay, that's it.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
It's that simple. You know. Hey, what can I tell you?
Maria Hi, Maria Hi?
Speaker 13 (23:50):
Bill a quod question. I would like to get legal
advice on what my options would be in regards to
purchasing a drink at starbu And when I took a
drink from the Starbucks, a live spider landed in my mouth.
And when I took the spider, Yeah, when I felt
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an odd object when I took a sip from the straw.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Okay, I got a spider in your mouth.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Were you did the spider bite your tongue or anything,
or you just had the spider floating around your mouth.
Speaker 13 (24:23):
It swirled in my mouth and then I felt like
it kind of like snagged my tongue.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Mmmm.
Speaker 13 (24:30):
So when I took it out, when I felt like
something a hard disigo? What is this? Because it was
a much of powdered drink. So when I reached in
took it out, the spider was right upside down and
it was still alive.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Oh spider, okay, all right, so yeah they're liable.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Now the question is for what I am assuming you
told the manager spider in my drink and there it is?
Speaker 8 (24:57):
Correct?
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Okay, did you take a picture of this fighter?
Speaker 13 (25:01):
I did your video?
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Oh excellent, excellent, well done. And what did the manager
say or do?
Speaker 6 (25:08):
Well?
Speaker 13 (25:08):
I reached out to the corporate office. They first wanted
to offer me a twenty five.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Dollars gift card.
Speaker 13 (25:14):
I go, no, you don't understand. I ended up being anxiety.
I went to urgent Care because there was a red
dot on the tes.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Okay, right, fair enough, all right.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
An urgent Care said that effectively, you have a red
dot on your tongue, and that's about it.
Speaker 8 (25:28):
Right exactly.
Speaker 13 (25:30):
They said, okay, just look out.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
For all right, okay, red dot on your tongue.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Okay, anxiety, trouble, sleeping, hysterics. You're seeing a shrink because
your life is not the same any of that. I will.
Speaker 13 (25:44):
I do have a doctor's appointment to be referred to,
you know, to have the anxiety of just everywhere, like,
oh my gods.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Fair enough, fair enough now that twenty five dollars gift certificate,
of course, is ludicrous as far as that is concerned.
The big issue here, the red dot on your tongue
doesn't mean a lot. A lot of people have red
dots on their tongue. As a matter of fact, I'm
not there.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
No, this is radio. You can't see it. So that's
not a big deal.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Now, the anxiety you know you're going and how much
you give for someone who you know is claiming anxiety,
and maybe it's legit. By the way, I have absolutely
you know no idea whether anxiety is happening. You may
be hysterical, you may never sleep again, and next time
you see a spider you may be on the floor
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in a fetal position moaning for five months.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
I have no idea. What is it worth? Not much?
And have you seen a shrink already?
Speaker 6 (26:48):
Not yet.
Speaker 13 (26:49):
I do have a doctor's appointment. Okay, you have my
doctor refer me to one.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Okay, so here's what I want to do. I want
you to call a personal injury lawyer. Okay, not that
they're going to take the case, but get some advice
because I'm not familiar enough with cases like this. It
is legitimate to have anxiety after a spider is found
in your mouth.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
And some people get very hysterical.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Some people say, hey, thank you, that's extra protein and
I didn't pay for it, so thanks very much. Some
people flip out like you. And how legitimate is it.
I'm not saying, oh, not legitimate, because it could very
well be legitimate. How much compensation can you get for it?
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And I don't know the answer of that. If there
is there there, they may tell you to go small
claims court. They may say take what the psychologist said,
put it all together. Go to them and go, hey,
I got these bills and i'm seeing a shrink and
this is what I want. But if you get anything,
you're gonna get several thousand dollars. You're gonna get a
lot of Starbucks, assuming that is done correctly. Now, if
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I'm Starbucks, I just say, hey, you know what, Maria,
here's fifty bucks worth of Starbucks. Products, So you know,
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Speaker 3 (28:18):
Give you the best advice as to what you do.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Because this is a really weird one, because it could
very well be legitimate in the sense of someone finds
a spider and they put it in their mouth. You
could get fairly hysterical with that. I mean I wouldn't,
but you know, and maybe there was a bite. Maybe
that red thing is a bite which takes it in
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one five three four. Welcome back handle on the law
Marginal legal advice.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Hello, Rick, you're up.
Speaker 9 (30:55):
Hey Bill, I trying to make this quick. My wife
died of thinker out of cancer on January last year,
and two days before she died, her kids, my step kids,
had her sign an active donation. So even though the
will had left me the house, which was my house
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before I ever met her. Uh, they got the house.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Oh okay, that hold on, wait wait wait, yeah, they
got the house because the will was probated.
Speaker 9 (31:31):
No, the will in the will, I had the house.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Okay, So how did they get the house? Your wife dies?
Speaker 9 (31:37):
They had her sign an active donation two days before
she died, an.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Active an active donation to them as individuals. Yes, whoa,
I've never heard of that. That is crazy. And when
you say they got.
Speaker 9 (31:51):
The house an active donation.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Okay, let me ask you when the house okay?
Speaker 6 (31:56):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (31:56):
And so how quickly did they sell house after that?
Speaker 9 (32:01):
They didn't. I'm still in the house as of this home.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Okay.
Speaker 9 (32:05):
We went to trial. I stood them. We went to trial,
and we had every bit of evidence on our side.
We had the doctor, the hospice nurse, everybody said that
she couldn't possibly make that kind of decision. Two days
before she died, she was on every paying medicine you
could imagine. They had to wake her up to sign
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the act of donation. And the judge ignored all of
the evidence and found for the kids. So now I've
lost that case. I'm going to appeal. So we were
going to do it. We were going to do a
suspensive appeal. And my attorney asked for either no bond
(32:50):
or a low bond, and the judge's idea of a
low bond is two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
How much is the property work kid?
Speaker 9 (33:01):
About five hundred?
Speaker 3 (33:02):
Okay, And let me ask you.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
The house was originally yours and somehow you you quit claimed.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
It over to her.
Speaker 9 (33:10):
No, no, we we refinanced and I was closing my
construction company. And it's a long story, but some problems
with Louisiana.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Okay, let me ask you, so who had title to
the house?
Speaker 9 (33:26):
Did oh?
Speaker 3 (33:27):
So you your name disappeared on that house?
Speaker 9 (33:29):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (33:30):
Okay, uh yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
All you can do is go forward on the appeal,
and I don't know two hundred and fifty thousand dollars
that as far as the bond is concerned, uh, that
it does not seem outrageous because you're talking about half
the value of the house.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
Usually it's even more than the value.
Speaker 9 (33:51):
Than for the period of the appeal.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
So I mean, no, I understand, no, No, And that's
usually and that's and and that's the case. I mean,
that's you know, don't go on forever. Right, this is
a bond for the question of the appeal.
Speaker 9 (34:04):
Yeah, they did the judge and said they were paying
thirty four hundred dollars a month.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
Okay, and they but let me ask me, they lied
to the judge they were paying thirty four hundred dollars
and they never were able to prove it, and the
judge believed.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
It, right, Yes, okay, So they never came up.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
They never came up with a check, they never came
up with a statement, they never came up with a
bank deposit.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Nothing, is that true?
Speaker 9 (34:28):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (34:29):
Wow? All right, you'll see right.
Speaker 9 (34:32):
Now is the mortgage, which is about twelve hundred dollars.
I've been paying all the utility since I've been there,
and the whole all.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
Right, what's your question? No, I get it. What's your
what's your question? What's your question?
Speaker 6 (34:46):
Do?
Speaker 9 (34:47):
I mean? One thing is is there is there any recourse?
I mean, yeah, the appeal. Who says that this judge
was crazy?
Speaker 3 (34:56):
Yeah, the appeal. All you can do is appeal it.
All you can do is appeal it. And there's it.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
Seems like there's ground based on what you said. Yeah,
there seems like there is ground obviously grounds for appeal.
That's all you can do. You're doing everything you can do. Uh,
there's not much more, okay, Airs Richard, Hi, Richard.
Speaker 5 (35:18):
Yes, Bill, I'm eighty seven years old.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Wow, you sound you sound great for eighty seven. I
have to tell you thank you.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
All right.
Speaker 9 (35:30):
I have a lawyer.
Speaker 5 (35:32):
I live in Encino. I have a lawyer who's represented
me for about the last twenty years, and we were
working on a small insurance claim. He also had operates
in Arizona. So while he's working on this case for me,
he's going also through a second divorce and his new
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girlfriend calls me and says he's been arrested and thrown
in jail and could I please come up with one
hundred thousand.
Speaker 9 (36:03):
Dollars for his bail.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
That's great.
Speaker 5 (36:05):
Well, the whole thing was quite shocking.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
Yeah, but was it true?
Speaker 5 (36:10):
Yes, he was, And so I told her, well, okay,
I can do that, but I have obligations for this
money at the end of the month. Now this happened Bill,
December of twenty twenty one.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
Well, and you're calling me now.
Speaker 5 (36:27):
Yes, because the guy is a friend, you probably know him.
Speaker 3 (36:31):
And his I know, you know what.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
The last thing I need is his name, Okay, I don't,
I don't, okay, Okay, So you loan him one hundred
thousand dollars. So you're both a very sharp eighty seven
and an idiot all at the same time. So you
loan him one hundred thousand dollars. He was arrested, correct, Yes,
And what was he arrested for, Richard? What was he
arrested for.
Speaker 5 (36:56):
I'm not quite clear on it, but his something about
he wasn't supposed to get within a certain distance of
his ex wife.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
Okay, violation of a Okay, violation of a restraining order,
all right, And so you were supposed to be paid,
you were supposed to be paid back within a month. Correct,
one hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 5 (37:18):
That's correct. Okay, be paid back December of twenty twenty.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
Okay, all right, let me ask you this. Hold on,
hold on, I have to ask you some questions. Richard.
Did the money even go to him or went to
the girlfriend?
Speaker 5 (37:30):
Well, I went to the girlfriend. She paid the bill
with it.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
A violation of a restraining order. One hundred thousand dollars bail.
Speaker 5 (37:42):
Well, that's what I was told.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
Oh my god, Richard, you've been scammed.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
There is no such thing as one hundred thousand dollars
bail with a violation of a restraining order unless he
beat her up, unless he took a gun and threatened
to blow her head off, unless he took a baseball
bat to her.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
No, no, a restraining order.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
And by the way, one hundred thousand dollars bail costs
you ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (38:09):
You simply go to a head. It doesn't matter. It's
all right.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
You've probably been scammed, so you have to sue, and
you got four years no, you know, and it was
a verbal contract. Yeah, you're you're screwed, Richard, You're completely screwed.
Speaker 3 (38:24):
God.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
I wish you had called earlier. But it doesn't matter. It's
a scam. No matter what happens. Oh man, all right,
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