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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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AM six forty Bill Handle Here.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
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on the law, marginal legal advice where I tell you
have absolutely no case. There is something called the World's
AIDS Day, where you've got countries all over the world
and corporations not celebrating but commemorating how difficult and what
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a scourge AIDS is. Globally, about forty million people are
living with HIV the virus that causes AIDS about one
point two million people in the United States, and of those,
thirteen percent.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Don't even know they have HIV.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
The observance of World Age Day was started by the
World Health Organization, and we've been part of it from
the very beginning. Well, we're no longer part of it.
The administration has said we're out of it. We're done.
We have nothing to do with World Aide Day at all.
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And we've been pulling out of a lot of organizations.
The parish, the parish, the global what do they call
that is climate change agreement that almost universally signed, Yeah,
the Paris Accords. Yeah, it's a climate change agreement that
everybody or most countries in the world do it here too.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
And we're out of that. And this is a tough one.
This is a tough one.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
It basically doesn't even recognize AIDS. It's not it's it's
not a problem, and I think it's a problem. We've
made huge strides in dealing with AIDS in terms of
medicine and sociologically and across the board in terms of
just how we accept AIDS as a true condition, and
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we don't make value judgments. You remember when AIDS first started,
it was the homosexual disease. Because we've found out, as
you know, the way gay men. It was primarily gay
men the way they have sex. I don't want to
get into it with too much detail, but AIDS is
transmitted very easily that way primarily. Oh and then you
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know how this is an interesting one and this has
to do locally here in southern California. There was a
huge influx of transfusions because the medical science doctors did
not know how AIDS was transmitted early days on, and
transfusions they found out AIDS or HIV can be transmitted,
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is transmitted by blood. And why were so many gay
people not only who had HIV, but we're giving it
to so many people and not having sex with them
through transfusions. Well, I'll tell you why. Because Cedar Sinai,
which is a hospital, a world known hospital in West
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Hollywood or right next to West Hollywood here in southern California,
is adjacent to a gay community, West Hollywood, which is
considered a well it's a lot of gay people live there,
not the majority, and gay people are very conscious of
their position in society. They just give a lot, They
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give a lot to charity, more so than other community members,
and they donate blood more than others, and they had
HIV and transmissions occurred at a greater number. Thought I'd
throw that at you. So the US government we no
longer commemorate World Age Day. That is done. All right,
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let's go ahead and take some phone.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Calls here, MEMI, you're a poem, memy welcome.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Hello, thank yes, ma'am.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
Thank yes, sure okay. So I had a flood in
my primary bathroom. Contacted my home insurance and they referred
it to a restoration business. When it came to packing
up my primary bedroom furniture, I advised them that the
antique dresser and nightstands had marble tops that were unattached.
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The dresser top is like two feet by four and
a half feet and three quarters inch. Anyway, it was
previously cracked and professionally repaired. I discussed all of that
with the young man that was in charge, and instead
of moving the dresser is one unit, they lifted the
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marble top, and of course it cracked right down the
middle where it had previously been cracked. So he told
me about it and called his boss, and they decided
that they should take the three pieces to their location.
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And this was really without notifying me up front or
me signing anything. So they returned it in the three pieces, unrepaired,
and they found a company, Marble Repair Company, that would
do it for twenty five hundred. They offered to pay half,
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but they want me to sign you know, liability.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Yeah, of course, Yeah, we'll pay for half if you
sign off and don't come back and sue us.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Yeah that makes sense, right right, Okay.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
But I don't really feel I should even.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Pay got it understood, Okay? So here we go.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
You expect and moving companies to treat your possessions in.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
A decent way, right, so they don't break.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
And here this thing broke and they tried to repair,
and they're saying twenty five hundred dollars and we split it.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Is it unreasonable for them to say that?
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Not, particularly because they have a defense, and the defense
is this was cracked anyway, and moving it at all
would cause this crack. That's what they're going to say.
And you're going to have to wait. So let's say
you sue in small claims court for the value of
either completely repairing it and or so you don't sign
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the liability. You pay for the whole thing, and you
sue them for the whole thing a small claims court
and they say the crack was already there, and the
judge will ask you, maybe it was the crack already there,
and you're gonna have to say, yes, it was. So
now the judge has to determine any movement of that
would that have exacerbated the problem and cause the crack
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to completely crack, which is what happened, don't know. Depends
on which way the judge is going to rule. If
he's had a problem with moving companies, you probably have
a good chance. If your son in law owns a
moving company, maybe not so much. So you know, it's
your call. It is unreasonable for you to say I
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don't want to pay it. Absolutely, you want to split
it with him, Okay. The only other possibility you have
is you pay for it. You're taking the small claims
court there. It is not easy, not easy because it
was already cracked. Do you understand that that is their defense?
Speaker 6 (08:29):
Right?
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (08:30):
Yeah, even though it even though it looked you know,
solid and in one piece, and.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
That's even worse.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Yeah, that's even worse for you because it doesn't clearly
have a crack, and they go, how how could.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
We have known? Yeah, yeah, so that's the that's the
issue you have.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Can it be repaired, by the way, by a marble
repair company? You know?
Speaker 5 (08:57):
Yeah, so that's a few hundred bucks you know. Well, no,
they're saying twenty five hundred.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Well that's what they're saying. Yeah, that's what they're saying.
Why don't you check it out and see how much
you can get for it? All right, that's what you do.
That's complicated. Uh, you know, I usually small claims court case.
I go, yeah, I have a small claim. So that
was kind of the other couple levels of that one.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
This is Heather.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
This is Handle on the Law, five am, six forty
handle here on a Saturday morning. Lines are open eight
hundred five two zero one to five three four eight
hundred five two zero one five three four and welcome back.
This is Handle on the Law. Marginal Legal Advice. Hello Mary,
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your turn, Yes, ma'am, I will.
Speaker 7 (09:46):
Yeah, I've talked to you of us this before. But
Saints are pretty worth a matter of trust. My brothers,
the trustee has been for thirty years. I'm having any anxiety,
excuse me?
Speaker 5 (10:00):
And he wants to.
Speaker 7 (10:02):
We have three main sources of income, three commercial properties
at the beach, and so this is substantial. One of
the channels is not paying because business has been bad.
Speaker 8 (10:18):
Is so he refused to pay.
Speaker 7 (10:21):
Well, we still have two other properties that are paying.
Text he won't. We've been to court so many times
and we haven't been to actually gone to trial yet. Okay,
it seems to be that. Anyway, this has been going
on for a long time now.
Speaker 8 (10:38):
He doesn't want.
Speaker 7 (10:39):
To pay the distribution and that's my main source.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Of the Okay, and you're a beneficiary, correct, yes, Okay, yeah,
well you got to assume them.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
I mean, you say you're going to trial.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
The way you can do issue him to pay the distribution,
that he's breaching his fiduciary duty. I'm assuming that the
property is owned by a trust and under the trust,
that he is the trustee and he has to distribute
because that's what the trust says.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Correct.
Speaker 7 (11:05):
Yes, but I'm already thirty five thousand dollars paint.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
No, I understand, it doesn't matter how much. Yes, the
answer is correct me If I'm wrong, he is the trustee,
the property is owned by the trust in terms of
the trust he has to distribute money.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Is that correct?
Speaker 3 (11:26):
I think?
Speaker 9 (11:26):
So?
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Okay, well you have to get a copy. Do you
have a copy of the trusty?
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Okay, Well you just look at the trust and look
at what the trustee has to do. And if the
trustee is not doing what the trustee should be doing,
especially if you're damaged, which you are, you.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Take him to court.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
It's not complicated. And you say, you have a trial
date coming up. You're doing everything you have to do.
You know what can I do for you?
Speaker 5 (11:50):
Mary, we go to court again?
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Well, then go to court again. I mean, he can
make it miserable for you.
Speaker 7 (11:58):
I mean that's exactly Judge keeps saying he has to
produce an accounting, which is.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Okay, okay, and he doesn't do it, and he's held
in contempt and he is screwing the system and he
and you particularly, and frankly the system allows him to.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Do that, unfortunately.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
So I don't know what kind of advice I can
give you other than you're doing exactly everything you are doing.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Derek, Hi, Derek, welcome.
Speaker 6 (12:29):
Hi Bill.
Speaker 8 (12:30):
Let me take you up. My wife was involved in
a serious auto accident where totaled her car, and our
insurance paid us out a little under ten grand for
the property damage. My question for you is, if the
party that hit her accept a full liability and she
only has fifteen thousand dollars of bodily injury coverage and
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she's already in Kurt six grand and ambulance and er
and then chiropractors for the last couple of months, is
it worth hiring an attorney? No or something like that.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
No, No, no, no, you're gonna get the full fifteen.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Probably you're gonna negotiate with them.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
If you've got six thousand dollars with worth of physical
therapy and medical damages right now, you're you're not gonna
get the full fifteen. But if you go to an
attorney who's probably not going to take it, maybe they will.
The attorney's gonna get five thousand anyway. The attorney's gonna
get a third. So now you're down to ten thousand
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dollars that you are going to get, right, you know,
I it's.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Worth a phone call. You know what I would do?
You know is what I would do.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
I contact handle on the law dot com, go to
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Insurance companies fight back, and it's just it's you know,
you don't want to talk to an adjuster if you
don't have to, and that is asking the lawyers. I said,
these are very honest lawyers, say I talked to Bill
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And they will tell you if it's worthwhile or not.
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And it may be, you know, maybe a little bit worthwhile.
I mean it's not you're not going to get tens
of thousands, hundreds of thousands of dollars. But if you
do better with the lawyer, I'd go for it. No,
it's not the end of the world. It's not a
bad decision you make either one. It's just a question
of how much better you're going to do. I probably
would because I don't have to worry about it. I
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just go here, take care of it, leave me alone,
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You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
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Speaker 3 (16:24):
Six forty Bill Handle here Saturday morning right up until
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Speaker 2 (16:42):
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All right.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Back, we go to Handle on the Law marginal legal
advice where I tell you, and I've told some people
already today and it was a wonderful thing is they
have no case.
Speaker 9 (16:56):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
That that makes it for me. That's a holiday for me.
That's the Christmas gift of all time. All right, Suzanne,
Welcome back, Suzanne. What can I do for you?
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Hello there?
Speaker 10 (17:11):
Yes, ma'am, Yes, can you hear me? Can you hear
me here? Awesome? I'm so excited. Okay, So my husband
slipped and fell at Crypto last at the King's Game
at Crypto, watching the other kings right before they're going
down the seats. And long story short, there was no
alcohol involved, There was no water. He just slipped and
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broke his knee, his left knee broke some tendons. Yeah,
and so he was real. Yeah, he had surgery. They
stitched them all up. He's still he's only going back
to work in January. So we've been on state disability.
But everything's fine. However, Morgan and Morgan did contact us
and they denied the case. So they're really it's actually
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to be honest, it is just a human error.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Yeah, let me ask you something.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Okay, do you think that Crypto Stadium did anything wrong?
Were they negligent in any way whatsoever? No?
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Okay, So there is the question.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Okay, because when you're going against someone for injuries personal injuries,
you have to argue and the law has to find
they are at fault. For example, getting rear ended, the
person that rear ends you is at fault. If you
are like at a major box store, a Costco, Walmart, whatever,
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And I've had these cases where all of a sudden,
the box falls off a shelf on someone's head, they
are at fault.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
You can't sue for being a klutz. You can't, and
you can't a matter of fact.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
That's the defense. That's the perfect defense. You're a klutz.
Go ahead, And you were going to say, okay, even worse,
So can you imagine here you go, you're now suing
or you're going against Crypto Stadium. My husband broke and
the damages are are fine. I mean, you know he
was seriously damaged, so there's no issue there. And then
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Crypto was going to say, how is it our fault? Well, well,
he fell, did we do anything wrong? Was there poor lighting?
Was the concrete flooring that I have bumps in? It
was poor lighting where he couldn't see? Well, no, no,
And then what do you think he fell? Well, because
my husband is actually prone.
Speaker 10 (19:36):
Well we didn't say that, but I mean, but there
was no grippy things. And you know, the stairs are
really sure.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
I know you've been there, yeah, but you know, but
but you know they are because they have to pile
a bunch of people in there. And there's also called
something there's something called assumption of the.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Risk, where you assume the risk.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
And when you are going to any event, the ball
game of concert, you know, the seats are are pretty steep.
Everybody knows that you walk in you can see that. So, uh,
you know, unfortunately, season or fortunately, depending on who's doing
the show. There is so no case there that I
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can't even begin to tell you how there is no case. Daniel, Hi, Daniel, welcome, Hi.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Good morning. Yeah, yeah, I have a create. It's a
real estate case. My sister I just sold my house
and I got a substantial amount of money for it,
but the federal government just took it. Anyway, long story
shows right way away.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
The federal government just took away your money.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
No, no, no, they I went to a CP and it
was it was correct what they want to talk takeaway.
But I was considering, now.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Oh, okay, you're talking about the taxes were correct. You
had to pay tax on it, and they grabbed it. Okay, guy,
they got they grabbed it out of the money that
you got.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
All right, yes, all right, continue on, okay, Okay.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
So twenty years ago I had a brain injury. I
moved back to my parents' house. My parents never did
have a living trust.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
So, having said that, my sister took over financial as
as financial director. She took it a POA. My mother
sent it power attorney was getting okay. So then my
mother had to mint with beginning sightings of dementia and
she is has a dimension now she's in a facility.
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So having said that, now my sister is saying that
she wants two thirds of the value of the house
that I'm living in right now, which is my mother
and father souse.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Yeah, she's not going to get it. The sole purpose, Daniel,
She's not going to get it.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
I mean, for the sole purpose of taking care of
your mom. That she can do, but that would probably
go into a trust of some kind, and the power
of attorney doesn't do a whole lot. Maybe it does
as to your mom's estate, because this is your mom's money,
and your sister can argue and it's more important as
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far as the law is concerned that your mom is
taken care of. So now your sister has been taking
care of it, but she doesn't deserve two thirds of it.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
It's fifty to fifty.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Theoretically she could, she can argue that she should be
paid for it out of the estate estate being your
mom's money, but I don't think she's gonna get it.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
You know, it's fifty to fifty.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
The reason why the reason why she says she's two
thirds because we're all three on the title, my sister
and my mom and myself.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Okay, then she doesn't get two thirds. No, it doesn't
work that way. Both of you, both of you, when
your mom dies, both of you split her third. Okay, Yeah,
she doesn't get it.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
She doesn't get any modey she can say, why doesn't she?
Speaker 3 (22:51):
I want eighty percent of it for all the work
I've done or ninety percent.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
No, No, she gets a third. You're fine, You're fine.
Tell your sister zero pound, Sam.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
We just want to Yeah, I was just one of
the PA supersedes any type of title or deed.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
No, people, absolutely not, absolutely not. It does not. The
power of attorney does not give you the power to
do that.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Uh oh, let's go ahead and take a break.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
We'll do that. Do not go away.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
This is Handle on the law, k if I am
six forty bill handle here. It is a Saturday morning.
We have some lines open for your marginal legal questions.
Eight hundred five two zero one five three four. That's
eight hundred five two zero one five three four. Welcome back,
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Handle on the Law. Carlton, Hello Carlton.
Speaker 6 (23:49):
Hey, bil can you hear me, get I can, Okay, great.
My wife she's a traveler nurse, but she's like specifically
she works for Joe Biden's attorney's mom and retro palace verdings.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Oh interesting, Okay.
Speaker 6 (24:06):
They were in two bad car accidents. The first accident,
the car flipped over six times, everybody got broken bones.
And this was in late twenty twenty one, and the
lawyer called us, Now, Joe Biden's attorney, her mom's son.
He's not on the case, but it's her son, his mom.
(24:28):
It's you know, that was an accident. My wife was okay, well, let.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Me ask you something other than kind of a fun story.
The fact that he's Joe Biden's attorney. I don't understand
the connection. He's not on the case. He's probably not
a personal injury lawyer. I'm sure he's not.
Speaker 6 (24:45):
Well, he's well, no, he's not on the case, but
he said that he would be over, you know, he'd
make sure that you know, everything gets done right.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Okay, fair enough.
Speaker 6 (24:53):
In twenty twenty two, the lawyer that's hell in the
case called my wife and they asked her, how do
you want to get your money? Do you want to
come pick it up. Do you want us to just
deposit in your account? And that's been it's been three
years ago. Is the lawyer like, there's something wrong?
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Yeah? Yeah, you know there's something wrong.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
No there, yeah, let me tell you, Carl, there's there's
something wrong, especially when the lawyer said, you want to
pick up your money.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
But let me ask you even.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Before that, before a lawyer would say, do you want
to pick up your money?
Speaker 6 (25:27):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (25:27):
He is settling the case, and you have to know
how much the case is settling.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
For because okay, so how much? Okay?
Speaker 6 (25:36):
Okay, I go pick up the check in like I understand.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
I understand.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Are you you are the plaintiff, right, You're the one
that's suing, Is that right?
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Okay? Well it was for your it was for your
for your wife? How much you was the settlement for? What?
What did the lawyer settle it for?
Speaker 6 (25:54):
They haven't told her any amount?
Speaker 3 (25:56):
That keeps okay, this is wrong, then something is definitely wrong.
And she has to ask the attorney for the entire files.
She has to say, where have you been for three years?
What did the case settle for? And if the lawyer.
Speaker 6 (26:11):
Says afraid, she's afraid because you know everybody. You know,
her client's super rich. She's worked like three billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
It doesn't matter, she doesn't matter, she doesn't matter. She
should No, No.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
You have a ruffle, Yeah, have a ruffle all the
feathers in the world.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
She's fine, Okay, there's no issue.
Speaker 6 (26:31):
Association.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Yes, you want to put in a complaint to the
bar association for three years because he has abandoned the case.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Use the word abandonment. Uh, and it is Uh.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Yeah, there's something wrong if the lawyer settled the case
without your money.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 6 (26:49):
I told my wife he's sitting on the money. But
she's what you don't even you.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Don't even know how much money, Carlton, he's sitting on
the money. Well, I don't even know what that means.
Is that twelve dollars? Is that twelve hundred dollars is
out of twelve million dollars? You have to know what
a case settles for. And he can't settle it without
her permission.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Hey, we were offered. She wanted what.
Speaker 6 (27:18):
I told her she should call. She should call Joe
Biden's Uh.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
No, no, really, Joe Biden. No, Joe Biden's at turned no, no,
because Joe Biden's attorney. He's not going to know what
the value of a case is. He doesn't do personal injury,
but he.
Speaker 6 (27:29):
Is not gonna let his mom get screwed. She hasn't
been paid either.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Uh well, I mean the fact that he's Joe Biden's
attorney doesn't mean much except uh if I'm a lawyer.
And by the way, Joe Biden has no power over here.
I mean, it's just a neat name.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
To throw down. But you know, what's Joe Biden going
to do?
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Hi, I want to tell I'm a former president and
I and here's what I want you to do. It
doesn't work that way. Nope, something's definitely wrong there. Yeah,
you can't wait for that. Brian, Hi, Brian, welcome.
Speaker 9 (28:00):
Hello, Yes you show.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Thank you you should from Connecticut. Yes it is.
Speaker 9 (28:05):
I have a question on family law. Okay, So I
was divorced in twenty seventeen.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
It was final.
Speaker 9 (28:15):
I have a son with my ex wife, and she
broke court orders and basically kidnapped my son and left
the state.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Yeah. Now I normally hang on a second. Bryant hold
on is say?
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Now the word kidnap is very strong, but you know
when it's appropriate. Is when one spouse takes one kid
out of the state in violation of a court order,
that is parental kidnapping. That is the appropriate word to use. Okay,
So in violation of the court order, your your ex
(28:50):
wife takes your kid out of state, it is it's kidnapping.
There's their statue on the book, certainly in California, but
I can't imagine there isn't in Connecticut. Most states have that. Okay,
So she's gone with your kid. Are you in touch
with your child? Are you in touch with her?
Speaker 9 (29:07):
No, she has blocked all cause.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Okay, yeah, you got there's a real issue. Okay, do
you know what state she is in?
Speaker 9 (29:18):
Illinois?
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Okay, at this point, I think you contact the state
of Illinois. You contact the district attorney in whatever county
she's living in. If you have the address, that's not
a problem, and you take the court order from Connecticut. Now,
what you may have to do is domesticate that court order,
(29:39):
and that's a very simple thing to do. Domesticating the
court order means that you're transferring a Connecticut court order
into an Illinois court order. So there is jurisdiction for
the district attorney and all I can do, go ahead.
Speaker 9 (29:57):
So I'm sorry. So that means that my attorneys that
I have, we're filing suits in superior court in Connecticut
and we have orders that she has to appear in court.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
But yeah, but she's gonna agnore those Yeah, but Brian,
she's gonna ignore those odors because she's already ignored a court.
Speaker 9 (30:15):
Order that's happened for now three years.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Okay, she'll be held in she'll be held in contempt,
and that will be a court order that you want
to make sure that Illinois recognizes that court order and
they'll pick they'll pick your kid up and return them
to you.
Speaker 9 (30:34):
So so what you're saying is that my attorneys in
Connecticut need to file emotion.
Speaker 6 (30:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
Yeah, yeah, they have to go. And I don't know
if it's e motion. I don't know how it's done
because I've never done it. But there is a procedure
and it's not difficult.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
By the way. It's procedural where the court order.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Is accepted in connect and Illinois and it becomes an
Illinois order and you go on from there.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Yeah. I mean, your wife is totally liable for this stuff.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
She can't do that she's not allowed number one, to
take the child out of stage. She's not allowed to
block off your communication with your kid. I mean, she's
in violation of you know, dozens of laws here. So
you go back to your attorneys that you did ask
a very good question, by the way, it is, So
let me tell you about lawyers, because that's what I
(31:24):
talk about a whole bunch on this show. And I
just got asked a little while ago about a personal injury.
It was a slip and fall, which there's no liability
because one of the things about person personal injury, when
you go after someone or someplace, they have to be negligent.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
They have to be at fault.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
And so let's say you get caught up in a
car accident, you're t bone or you're rear ended, those
folks are at fault. Slip and fall where the facility
has done something wrong, or a big box falls on
you from a big box store, Yeah, there's liability there,
and it depends on how badly injured, how much time
and effort is spent on your case. And this is
(32:05):
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on the law, marginal legal advice where I tell you
have absolutely no case. There is something called the World's
AIDS Day, where you've got countries all over the world
and corporations not celebrating but commemorating how difficult and what
(01:19):
a scourge AIDS is. Globally, about forty million people are
living with HIV the virus that causes AIDS about one
point two million people in the United States, and of those,
thirteen percent.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Don't even know they have HIV.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
The observance of World Age Day was started by the
World Health Organization, and we've been part of it from
the very beginning. Well, we're no longer part of it.
The administration has said we're out of it. We're done.
We have nothing to do with World Aide Day at all.
(02:01):
And we've been pulling out of a lot of organizations.
The parish, the parish, the global what do they call
that is climate change agreement that almost universally signed, Yeah,
the Paris Accords. Yeah, it's a climate change agreement that
everybody or most countries in the world do it here too.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
And we're out of that. And this is a tough one.
This is a tough one.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
It basically doesn't even recognize AIDS. It's not it's it's
not a problem, and I think it's a problem. We've
made huge strides in dealing with AIDS in terms of
medicine and sociologically and across the board in terms of
just how we accept AIDS as a true condition, and
(02:51):
we don't make value judgments. You remember when AIDS first started,
it was the homosexual disease. Because we've found out, as
you know, the way gay men. It was primarily gay
men the way they have sex. I don't want to
get into it with too much detail, but AIDS is
transmitted very easily that way primarily. Oh and then you
(03:14):
know how this is an interesting one and this has
to do locally here in southern California. There was a
huge influx of transfusions because the medical science doctors did
not know how AIDS was transmitted early days on, and
transfusions they found out AIDS or HIV can be transmitted,
(03:40):
is transmitted by blood. And why were so many gay
people not only who had HIV, but we're giving it
to so many people and not having sex with them
through transfusions. Well, I'll tell you why. Because Cedar Sinai,
which is a hospital, a world known hospital in West
(04:01):
Hollywood or right next to West Hollywood here in southern California,
is adjacent to a gay community, West Hollywood, which is
considered a well it's a lot of gay people live there,
not the majority, and gay people are very conscious of
their position in society. They just give a lot, They
(04:24):
give a lot to charity, more so than other community members,
and they donate blood more than others, and they had
HIV and transmissions occurred at a greater number. Thought I'd
throw that at you. So the US government we no
longer commemorate World Age Day. That is done. All right,
(04:47):
let's go ahead and take some phone.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Calls here, MEMI, you're a poem, memy welcome.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Hello, thank yes, ma'am.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
Thank yes, sure okay. So I had a flood in
my primary bathroom. Contacted my home insurance and they referred
it to a restoration business. When it came to packing
up my primary bedroom furniture, I advised them that the
antique dresser and nightstands had marble tops that were unattached.
(05:23):
The dresser top is like two feet by four and
a half feet and three quarters inch. Anyway, it was
previously cracked and professionally repaired. I discussed all of that
with the young man that was in charge, and instead
of moving the dresser is one unit, they lifted the
(05:45):
marble top, and of course it cracked right down the
middle where it had previously been cracked. So he told
me about it and called his boss, and they decided
that they should take the three pieces to their location.
(06:05):
And this was really without notifying me up front or
me signing anything. So they returned it in the three pieces, unrepaired,
and they found a company, Marble Repair Company, that would
do it for twenty five hundred. They offered to pay half,
(06:29):
but they want me to sign you know, liability.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Yeah, of course, Yeah, we'll pay for half if you
sign off and don't come back and sue us.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Yeah that makes sense, right right, Okay.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
But I don't really feel I should even.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Pay got it understood, Okay? So here we go.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
You expect and moving companies to treat your possessions in.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
A decent way, right, so they don't break.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
And here this thing broke and they tried to repair,
and they're saying twenty five hundred dollars and we split it.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Is it unreasonable for them to say that?
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Not, particularly because they have a defense, and the defense
is this was cracked anyway, and moving it at all
would cause this crack. That's what they're going to say.
And you're going to have to wait. So let's say
you sue in small claims court for the value of
either completely repairing it and or so you don't sign
(07:29):
the liability. You pay for the whole thing, and you
sue them for the whole thing a small claims court
and they say the crack was already there, and the
judge will ask you, maybe it was the crack already there,
and you're gonna have to say, yes, it was. So
now the judge has to determine any movement of that
would that have exacerbated the problem and cause the crack
(07:49):
to completely crack, which is what happened, don't know. Depends
on which way the judge is going to rule. If
he's had a problem with moving companies, you probably have
a good chance. If your son in law owns a
moving company, maybe not so much. So you know, it's
your call. It is unreasonable for you to say I
(08:11):
don't want to pay it. Absolutely, you want to split
it with him, Okay. The only other possibility you have
is you pay for it. You're taking the small claims
court there. It is not easy, not easy because it
was already cracked. Do you understand that that is their defense?
Speaker 6 (08:29):
Right?
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (08:30):
Yeah, even though it even though it looked you know,
solid and in one piece, and.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
That's even worse.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Yeah, that's even worse for you because it doesn't clearly
have a crack, and they go, how how could.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
We have known? Yeah, yeah, so that's the that's the
issue you have.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Can it be repaired, by the way, by a marble
repair company? You know?
Speaker 5 (08:57):
Yeah, so that's a few hundred bucks you know. Well, no,
they're saying twenty five hundred.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Well that's what they're saying. Yeah, that's what they're saying.
Why don't you check it out and see how much
you can get for it? All right, that's what you do.
That's complicated. Uh, you know, I usually small claims court case.
I go, yeah, I have a small claim. So that
was kind of the other couple levels of that one.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
This is Heather.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
This is Handle on the Law, five am, six forty
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This is Handle on the Law. Marginal Legal Advice. Hello Mary,
(09:43):
your turn, Yes, ma'am, I will.
Speaker 7 (09:46):
Yeah, I've talked to you of us this before. But
Saints are pretty worth a matter of trust. My brothers,
the trustee has been for thirty years. I'm having any anxiety,
excuse me?
Speaker 5 (10:00):
And he wants to.
Speaker 7 (10:02):
We have three main sources of income, three commercial properties
at the beach, and so this is substantial. One of
the channels is not paying because business has been bad.
Speaker 8 (10:18):
Is so he refused to pay.
Speaker 7 (10:21):
Well, we still have two other properties that are paying.
Text he won't. We've been to court so many times
and we haven't been to actually gone to trial yet. Okay,
it seems to be that. Anyway, this has been going
on for a long time now.
Speaker 8 (10:38):
He doesn't want.
Speaker 7 (10:39):
To pay the distribution and that's my main source.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Of the Okay, and you're a beneficiary, correct, yes, Okay, yeah,
well you got to assume them.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
I mean, you say you're going to trial.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
The way you can do issue him to pay the distribution,
that he's breaching his fiduciary duty. I'm assuming that the
property is owned by a trust and under the trust,
that he is the trustee and he has to distribute
because that's what the trust says.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Correct.
Speaker 7 (11:05):
Yes, but I'm already thirty five thousand dollars paint.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
No, I understand, it doesn't matter how much. Yes, the
answer is correct me If I'm wrong, he is the trustee,
the property is owned by the trust in terms of
the trust he has to distribute money.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Is that correct?
Speaker 3 (11:26):
I think?
Speaker 9 (11:26):
So?
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Okay, well you have to get a copy. Do you
have a copy of the trusty?
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Okay, Well you just look at the trust and look
at what the trustee has to do. And if the
trustee is not doing what the trustee should be doing,
especially if you're damaged, which you are, you.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Take him to court.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
It's not complicated. And you say, you have a trial
date coming up. You're doing everything you have to do.
You know what can I do for you?
Speaker 5 (11:50):
Mary, we go to court again?
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Well, then go to court again. I mean, he can
make it miserable for you.
Speaker 7 (11:58):
I mean that's exactly Judge keeps saying he has to
produce an accounting, which is.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Okay, okay, and he doesn't do it, and he's held
in contempt and he is screwing the system and he
and you particularly, and frankly the system allows him to.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Do that, unfortunately.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
So I don't know what kind of advice I can
give you other than you're doing exactly everything you are doing.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Derek, Hi, Derek, welcome.
Speaker 6 (12:29):
Hi Bill.
Speaker 8 (12:30):
Let me take you up. My wife was involved in
a serious auto accident where totaled her car, and our
insurance paid us out a little under ten grand for
the property damage. My question for you is, if the
party that hit her accept a full liability and she
only has fifteen thousand dollars of bodily injury coverage and
(12:52):
she's already in Kurt six grand and ambulance and er
and then chiropractors for the last couple of months, is
it worth hiring an attorney? No or something like that.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
No, No, no, no, you're gonna get the full fifteen.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Probably you're gonna negotiate with them.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
If you've got six thousand dollars with worth of physical
therapy and medical damages right now, you're you're not gonna
get the full fifteen. But if you go to an
attorney who's probably not going to take it, maybe they will.
The attorney's gonna get five thousand anyway. The attorney's gonna
get a third. So now you're down to ten thousand
(13:35):
dollars that you are going to get, right, you know,
I it's.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Worth a phone call. You know what I would do?
You know is what I would do.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
I contact handle on the law dot com, go to
my website handle on the law dot com, and the
lawyers there are super honest, and they'll tell you, yeah,
you know, we're gonna make you a little bit of money,
we're gonna do better for you than you do on
your own. And if that's the case, you absolutely the
lawyers do it because they're dealing with the insurance companies.
(14:03):
Insurance companies fight back, and it's just it's you know,
you don't want to talk to an adjuster if you
don't have to, and that is asking the lawyers. I said,
these are very honest lawyers, say I talked to Bill
and he suggested Bill, who don't mention my last name.
And they will tell you if it's worthwhile or not.
(14:24):
And it may be, you know, maybe a little bit worthwhile.
I mean it's not you're not going to get tens
of thousands, hundreds of thousands of dollars. But if you
do better with the lawyer, I'd go for it. No,
it's not the end of the world. It's not a
bad decision you make either one. It's just a question
of how much better you're going to do. I probably
would because I don't have to worry about it. I
(14:46):
just go here, take care of it, leave me alone,
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have no case.
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That's the Christmas gift of all time. All right, Suzanne,
Welcome back, Suzanne. What can I do for you?
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Hello there?
Speaker 10 (17:11):
Yes, ma'am, Yes, can you hear me? Can you hear
me here? Awesome? I'm so excited. Okay, So my husband
slipped and fell at Crypto last at the King's Game
at Crypto, watching the other kings right before they're going
down the seats. And long story short, there was no
alcohol involved, There was no water. He just slipped and
(17:33):
broke his knee, his left knee broke some tendons. Yeah,
and so he was real. Yeah, he had surgery. They
stitched them all up. He's still he's only going back
to work in January. So we've been on state disability.
But everything's fine. However, Morgan and Morgan did contact us
and they denied the case. So they're really it's actually
(17:55):
to be honest, it is just a human error.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Yeah, let me ask you something.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Okay, do you think that Crypto Stadium did anything wrong?
Were they negligent in any way whatsoever? No?
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Okay, So there is the question.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Okay, because when you're going against someone for injuries personal injuries,
you have to argue and the law has to find
they are at fault. For example, getting rear ended, the
person that rear ends you is at fault. If you
are like at a major box store, a Costco, Walmart, whatever,
(18:37):
And I've had these cases where all of a sudden,
the box falls off a shelf on someone's head, they
are at fault.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
You can't sue for being a klutz. You can't, and
you can't a matter of fact.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
That's the defense. That's the perfect defense. You're a klutz.
Go ahead, And you were going to say, okay, even worse,
So can you imagine here you go, you're now suing
or you're going against Crypto Stadium. My husband broke and
the damages are are fine. I mean, you know he
was seriously damaged, so there's no issue there. And then
(19:14):
Crypto was going to say, how is it our fault? Well, well,
he fell, did we do anything wrong? Was there poor lighting?
Was the concrete flooring that I have bumps in? It
was poor lighting where he couldn't see? Well, no, no,
And then what do you think he fell? Well, because
my husband is actually prone.
Speaker 10 (19:36):
Well we didn't say that, but I mean, but there
was no grippy things. And you know, the stairs are
really sure.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
I know you've been there, yeah, but you know, but
but you know they are because they have to pile
a bunch of people in there. And there's also called
something there's something called assumption of the.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Risk, where you assume the risk.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
And when you are going to any event, the ball
game of concert, you know, the seats are are pretty steep.
Everybody knows that you walk in you can see that. So, uh,
you know, unfortunately, season or fortunately, depending on who's doing
the show. There is so no case there that I
(20:16):
can't even begin to tell you how there is no case. Daniel, Hi, Daniel, welcome, Hi.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Good morning. Yeah, yeah, I have a create. It's a
real estate case. My sister I just sold my house
and I got a substantial amount of money for it,
but the federal government just took it. Anyway, long story
shows right way away.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
The federal government just took away your money.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
No, no, no, they I went to a CP and it
was it was correct what they want to talk takeaway.
But I was considering, now.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Oh, okay, you're talking about the taxes were correct. You
had to pay tax on it, and they grabbed it. Okay, guy,
they got they grabbed it out of the money that
you got.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
All right, yes, all right, continue on, okay, Okay.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
So twenty years ago I had a brain injury. I
moved back to my parents' house. My parents never did
have a living trust.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
So, having said that, my sister took over financial as
as financial director. She took it a POA. My mother
sent it power attorney was getting okay. So then my
mother had to mint with beginning sightings of dementia and
she is has a dimension now she's in a facility.
(21:31):
So having said that, now my sister is saying that
she wants two thirds of the value of the house
that I'm living in right now, which is my mother
and father souse.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Yeah, she's not going to get it. The sole purpose, Daniel,
She's not going to get it.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
I mean, for the sole purpose of taking care of
your mom. That she can do, but that would probably
go into a trust of some kind, and the power
of attorney doesn't do a whole lot. Maybe it does
as to your mom's estate, because this is your mom's money,
and your sister can argue and it's more important as
(22:06):
far as the law is concerned that your mom is
taken care of. So now your sister has been taking
care of it, but she doesn't deserve two thirds of it.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
It's fifty to fifty.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Theoretically she could, she can argue that she should be
paid for it out of the estate estate being your
mom's money, but I don't think she's gonna get it.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
You know, it's fifty to fifty.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
The reason why the reason why she says she's two
thirds because we're all three on the title, my sister
and my mom and myself.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Okay, then she doesn't get two thirds. No, it doesn't
work that way. Both of you, both of you, when
your mom dies, both of you split her third. Okay, Yeah,
she doesn't get it.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
She doesn't get any modey she can say, why doesn't she?
Speaker 3 (22:51):
I want eighty percent of it for all the work
I've done or ninety percent.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
No, No, she gets a third. You're fine, You're fine.
Tell your sister zero pound, Sam.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
We just want to Yeah, I was just one of
the PA supersedes any type of title or deed.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
No, people, absolutely not, absolutely not. It does not. The
power of attorney does not give you the power to
do that.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Uh oh, let's go ahead and take a break.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
We'll do that. Do not go away.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
This is Handle on the law, k if I am
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We have some lines open for your marginal legal questions.
Eight hundred five two zero one five three four. That's
eight hundred five two zero one five three four. Welcome back,
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Handle on the Law. Carlton, Hello Carlton.
Speaker 6 (23:49):
Hey, bil can you hear me, get I can, Okay, great.
My wife she's a traveler nurse, but she's like specifically
she works for Joe Biden's attorney's mom and retro palace verdings.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Oh interesting, Okay.
Speaker 6 (24:06):
They were in two bad car accidents. The first accident,
the car flipped over six times, everybody got broken bones.
And this was in late twenty twenty one, and the
lawyer called us, Now, Joe Biden's attorney, her mom's son.
He's not on the case, but it's her son, his mom.
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It's you know, that was an accident. My wife was okay, well, let.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Me ask you something other than kind of a fun story.
The fact that he's Joe Biden's attorney. I don't understand
the connection. He's not on the case. He's probably not
a personal injury lawyer. I'm sure he's not.
Speaker 6 (24:45):
Well, he's well, no, he's not on the case, but
he said that he would be over, you know, he'd
make sure that you know, everything gets done right.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Okay, fair enough.
Speaker 6 (24:53):
In twenty twenty two, the lawyer that's hell in the
case called my wife and they asked her, how do
you want to get your money? Do you want to
come pick it up. Do you want us to just
deposit in your account? And that's been it's been three
years ago. Is the lawyer like, there's something wrong?
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Yeah? Yeah, you know there's something wrong.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
No there, yeah, let me tell you, Carl, there's there's
something wrong, especially when the lawyer said, you want to
pick up your money.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
But let me ask you even.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Before that, before a lawyer would say, do you want
to pick up your money?
Speaker 6 (25:27):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (25:27):
He is settling the case, and you have to know
how much the case is settling.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
For because okay, so how much? Okay?
Speaker 6 (25:36):
Okay, I go pick up the check in like I understand.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
I understand.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Are you you are the plaintiff, right, You're the one
that's suing, Is that right?
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Okay? Well it was for your it was for your
for your wife? How much you was the settlement for? What?
What did the lawyer settle it for?
Speaker 6 (25:54):
They haven't told her any amount?
Speaker 3 (25:56):
That keeps okay, this is wrong, then something is definitely wrong.
And she has to ask the attorney for the entire files.
She has to say, where have you been for three years?
What did the case settle for? And if the lawyer.
Speaker 6 (26:11):
Says afraid, she's afraid because you know everybody. You know,
her client's super rich. She's worked like three billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
It doesn't matter, she doesn't matter, she doesn't matter. She
should No, No.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
You have a ruffle, Yeah, have a ruffle all the
feathers in the world.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
She's fine, Okay, there's no issue.
Speaker 6 (26:31):
Association.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Yes, you want to put in a complaint to the
bar association for three years because he has abandoned the case.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Use the word abandonment. Uh, and it is Uh.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Yeah, there's something wrong if the lawyer settled the case
without your money.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 6 (26:49):
I told my wife he's sitting on the money. But
she's what you don't even you.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Don't even know how much money, Carlton, he's sitting on
the money. Well, I don't even know what that means.
Is that twelve dollars? Is that twelve hundred dollars is
out of twelve million dollars? You have to know what
a case settles for. And he can't settle it without
her permission.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Hey, we were offered. She wanted what.
Speaker 6 (27:18):
I told her she should call. She should call Joe
Biden's Uh.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
No, no, really, Joe Biden. No, Joe Biden's at turned no, no,
because Joe Biden's attorney. He's not going to know what
the value of a case is. He doesn't do personal injury,
but he.
Speaker 6 (27:29):
Is not gonna let his mom get screwed. She hasn't
been paid either.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Uh well, I mean the fact that he's Joe Biden's
attorney doesn't mean much except uh if I'm a lawyer.
And by the way, Joe Biden has no power over here.
I mean, it's just a neat name.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
To throw down. But you know, what's Joe Biden going
to do?
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Hi, I want to tell I'm a former president and
I and here's what I want you to do. It
doesn't work that way. Nope, something's definitely wrong there. Yeah,
you can't wait for that. Brian, Hi, Brian, welcome.
Speaker 9 (28:00):
Hello, Yes you show.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Thank you you should from Connecticut. Yes it is.
Speaker 9 (28:05):
I have a question on family law. Okay, So I
was divorced in twenty seventeen.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
It was final.
Speaker 9 (28:15):
I have a son with my ex wife, and she
broke court orders and basically kidnapped my son and left
the state.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Yeah. Now I normally hang on a second. Bryant hold
on is say?
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Now the word kidnap is very strong, but you know
when it's appropriate. Is when one spouse takes one kid
out of the state in violation of a court order,
that is parental kidnapping. That is the appropriate word to use. Okay,
So in violation of the court order, your your ex
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wife takes your kid out of state, it is it's kidnapping.
There's their statue on the book, certainly in California, but
I can't imagine there isn't in Connecticut. Most states have that. Okay,
So she's gone with your kid. Are you in touch
with your child? Are you in touch with her?
Speaker 9 (29:07):
No, she has blocked all cause.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Okay, yeah, you got there's a real issue. Okay, do
you know what state she is in?
Speaker 9 (29:18):
Illinois?
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Okay, at this point, I think you contact the state
of Illinois. You contact the district attorney in whatever county
she's living in. If you have the address, that's not
a problem, and you take the court order from Connecticut. Now,
what you may have to do is domesticate that court order,
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and that's a very simple thing to do. Domesticating the
court order means that you're transferring a Connecticut court order
into an Illinois court order. So there is jurisdiction for
the district attorney and all I can do, go ahead.
Speaker 9 (29:57):
So I'm sorry. So that means that my attorneys that
I have, we're filing suits in superior court in Connecticut
and we have orders that she has to appear in court.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
But yeah, but she's gonna agnore those Yeah, but Brian,
she's gonna ignore those odors because she's already ignored a court.
Speaker 9 (30:15):
Order that's happened for now three years.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Okay, she'll be held in she'll be held in contempt,
and that will be a court order that you want
to make sure that Illinois recognizes that court order and
they'll pick they'll pick your kid up and return them
to you.
Speaker 9 (30:34):
So so what you're saying is that my attorneys in
Connecticut need to file emotion.
Speaker 6 (30:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
Yeah, yeah, they have to go. And I don't know
if it's e motion. I don't know how it's done
because I've never done it. But there is a procedure
and it's not difficult.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
By the way. It's procedural where the court order.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Is accepted in connect and Illinois and it becomes an
Illinois order and you go on from there.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Yeah. I mean, your wife is totally liable for this stuff.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
She can't do that she's not allowed number one, to
take the child out of stage. She's not allowed to
block off your communication with your kid. I mean, she's
in violation of you know, dozens of laws here. So
you go back to your attorneys that you did ask
a very good question, by the way, it is, So
let me tell you about lawyers, because that's what I
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talk about a whole bunch on this show. And I
just got asked a little while ago about a personal injury.
It was a slip and fall, which there's no liability
because one of the things about person personal injury, when
you go after someone or someplace, they have to be negligent.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
They have to be at fault.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
And so let's say you get caught up in a
car accident, you're t bone or you're rear ended, those
folks are at fault. Slip and fall where the facility
has done something wrong, or a big box falls on
you from a big box store, Yeah, there's liability there,
and it depends on how badly injured, how much time
and effort is spent on your case. And this is
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why I created handle on the law dot com. Handle
on the Law dot Com is about personal injury. Lawyers
and man, you see nothing but ads and hear nothing
but ads from personal injury lawyers billboards, and some are
really good and some are not so good.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
So how do you know?
Speaker 3 (32:20):
Well, there's handle on the law dot Com. These are
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there is a problem with the lawyer and the client,
you I make the phone call. Boy do I get
it straightened out quickly? So if you've been injured in
a car accident or slip and fall and you are
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