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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listenings KFI AM six forty. The bill handles show
on demand on the iHeartRadio f New York Mayor Zohran
man Dami is a calls himself a democratic socialist.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Other people call him a communist.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
But what he is is he's not a big fan
of Israel, that's for sure. He is a Muslim, and
he has spoken out and vociferously against Israel and in
favor of the Palestinians. That's simply how he rolls. And
here's what ended up happening is last year, I think

(00:40):
the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant against Benjamin
Netanyahu and the chief of the Army of Israel. And
what Mom Danmi said is when Neatiyahu comes to New

(01:01):
York in September, I think he's going to the UN.
He is. He had asked the police and his the
people around him, those that have the ability to arrest people.
We're talking about New York Police Department, et cetera, that
he would like Netanyahu arrested based on the warrant of

(01:25):
the International Criminal Court. Well, he got a couple of
promise problems with that. How about one that how does
a city police Department arrest a head of state who
is coming to the United States and an official capacity.
I don't even know if Neto carries a diplomatic passport.
I know somehow they do, and what he's considered. My

(01:47):
guess is that he probably carries a diplomatic passport, so
of course he can't get arrested. The other thing that's
kind of interesting about this is the International Criminal Court.
Virtually the entire world, virtually every country in the world
is a signatory and as part of the International Criminal Court,
except the United States. We're not even part of the court.

(02:11):
We don't recognize the court. So mom Damie is saying
he wants the arrest of someone who has been the
warrant issued by an organization that we do not recognize.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
And now what does he do.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
It's even he said after contacting independent legal authority, New
York does not have the right to execute this warrant.
Of course, he did what he was You think he
was serious about it, Maybe he was, But it's a
political statement he's making. He's making Netanyahu has been indicted

(02:52):
in the court. By the way, the United States has
been indicted at the Hague. For example, during the Vietnam War,
and as were war crimes that were committed Israel or
Natannael's specifically has been accused by the International Court as
well as many other organizations as well as other governments,
of crimes against humanity, of genocide, and it is not

(03:16):
genocide what Israel is doing now if people suffered like crazy?
Do I agree with the fact that they've taken out
seventy thousand people? Do I agree with eighty percent of
Gaza being demolished and made into a parking lot with
a lot of rubble?

Speaker 2 (03:29):
No?

Speaker 1 (03:30):
No, I think that is utterly wrong. But genocide is
the systematic killing of an entire group of people because
so they don't no longer exist. That is not the
case here. Yeah, we throw that word about.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
So what's going to happen? Nothing?

Speaker 1 (03:48):
Nothing, although Israel is becoming a pariah country very quickly. Okay,
let's go ahead and take some phone calls.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
Susan Hi, Susan, Hey, Bill, how are you go ahead?

Speaker 3 (03:59):
I have a question about family law. I'm wondering in
a tro.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
Case that was I'm sorry, what kind of case?

Speaker 3 (04:08):
Temporary restraining order?

Speaker 1 (04:10):
Oh okay, I didn't hear that, all right, temporary restraining
order go ahead.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
Yes, I'm wondering if when there's one parent and the
children protected under the TRO, and then during the hearing
there was nothing heard regarding the children at all, only
the one parent. Okay, So I'm wondering if there's any sure.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
Okay, let me ask a couple of questions.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
When the first and remember it's a temporary restraining order. Okay,
this is not permanent, it's a temporary pending a hearing.
Was there only one parent that went in and argued
the TRO or both.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
Parents were there?

Speaker 4 (04:49):
Both parents?

Speaker 2 (04:50):
Okay? So what the judge did is believe one or
the other.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
A TRO was issued and now there will be a
hearing as to a permanent restraining order or a modification
of the temporary.

Speaker 2 (05:05):
So what the judge did is just believe one party
over the other.

Speaker 5 (05:09):
It's that simple, right, That's what I'm talking about.

Speaker 3 (05:12):
The one that was for the permanent.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
Oh and a permanent and a permanent restraining order was issued.
It's not a temporary you're talking about. A permanent restraining
order was issued by the judge.

Speaker 3 (05:24):
Correct, No, sorry, it was actually a hearing to see
if there was going to be a permanent restraining order,
or if the restraining order would be lifted.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
Okay, And what happened to hear it was lifted? Okay,
So what's your question? What's your question?

Speaker 3 (05:42):
Okay? Nothing was heard during the hearing regarding the children.

Speaker 1 (05:46):
Okay, what's your question, Susan.

Speaker 3 (05:49):
I'm wondering if there's anything that can be done, sure
besides just an feel just.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
Go right back in and argue the restraining order again
and the reason lie and you go in front of
the same judge or another judge.

Speaker 6 (06:03):
You go.

Speaker 1 (06:04):
The judge didn't take into account whether the children even
have the evidence as to the children. Now, somebody had
to give evidence that there's a problem.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
You're not gonna what did the restraining orders say?

Speaker 3 (06:19):
Violence towards one of the parents and the.

Speaker 1 (06:22):
Children, and the children weren't even mentioned.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
It was just violence.

Speaker 5 (06:27):
I don't it's not my okay.

Speaker 1 (06:30):
So the point is, it doesn't make any sense that
they if it's a restraining order against the parent being
near the kids and no one mentions the kids, then okay,
that doesn't make any sense. And by the way, the
restraining order was lifted, there is no more restraining order, correct, right,

(06:50):
So I don't know where we're going with this, So
that doesn't make any sense. If you get into a
car accident, or you slip and fall and fall on
your butt, or let's say you go to a big
box store and the big box falls on your head,
or you're assaulted by a rent to cop wrongly, and
so let you've been injured, all right, and now do

(07:10):
you have a case? Well, you very well might. And
how do you know, Well, you go to a lawyer,
a personal injury lawyer. And there are a lot of
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(07:30):
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(07:52):
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Speaker 7 (08:01):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.

Speaker 2 (08:07):
Handle on the Law Marginal Legal Advice. Denise, Hi, Denise,
Hey Bill.

Speaker 8 (08:13):
My mother has just changed the executor of her state,
which I have no argument with. But the executor thinks
that not only can she be executor of the estate,
but she can also be the real estate agent that
sells my mother's very expensive house. Is that a conflict
of interest?

Speaker 2 (08:34):
It can be. It can be.

Speaker 1 (08:37):
Now let me ask you if she as executor appoints
herself as the seller. Yeah, that's a conflict because unless
the executor is a beneficiary and can argue, I'm allowed to.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
The will allows me to.

Speaker 1 (08:55):
But what I would do is call the real estate
board and ask that question, because she may be conflicted
out and then you have the beneficiaries can certainly file
a lawsuit and argue conflict unless she gets the unless
she gets market price. If she gets market priced, let's

(09:17):
say she lists it and she gets what any other
real estate agent would get. For the beneficiaries, there is
a conflict, but there are no damages.

Speaker 8 (09:28):
But Bill, it's hard on real estate to really determine
what market price is.

Speaker 1 (09:33):
No, that's not true. The real estate you can figure
out what market price is. You look at comps, you
look at what you look at the records. You can
figure out market. Now, can you figure out exact market?
For example, let's say the last year, you have four
homes that are more or less equivalent to the house

(09:53):
you're talking about, and they all went for six hundred thousand,
let's say six hundred thousand dollars. She lists it and
she sells it for under market. Was there a straw
man who bought it? Did she screw you guys? Yes,
she did, because she sold it very quickly and didn't
get market, and therefore we're entitled to more. Yeah, there's

(10:17):
a conflict there. But in the end, can she choose herself? Yeah,
it's conflicted unless there is a law that I'm not
aware of that says she cannot that somebody cannot be
if you're an executor, you cannot get the benefit under
these circumstances like this. So that's a question for the

(10:38):
real estate board that I would ask. It's a good
question too, By the way, that was a roundabout way
of saying, I don't know Mary.

Speaker 2 (10:47):
Hello, Mary, you're up.

Speaker 1 (10:48):
Welcome, Hi Bill, Yes, ma'am.

Speaker 9 (10:53):
So I am helping a woman, an eighty four year
old woman at my church, who rented a suite in
her house house with a little kitchenette to someone. And
that's someone she gave a thirty day notice to. After
four months, the person responded with filing a lawsuit in
unlimited civil for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Speaker 2 (11:15):
How has that person been damaged? What are they saying?

Speaker 9 (11:18):
So? So? She is claiming that she was living in
a converted garage.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
Okay, this is not true. Code, It doesn't matter, It
doesn't matter. How is she damaged?

Speaker 9 (11:28):
She's asking for all the rent she paid for four
months because it was an unpermitted.

Speaker 1 (11:35):
Nah, it doesn't work that way. Now, it doesn't work
that way. She can ask for anything. Here's what's happening.
She can ask for anything she wants. You can ask
for five million dollars for all I care. Now, is
there an attorney involved?

Speaker 9 (11:49):
There was an attorney involved. He helped her initially to
write some very threatening letters to the old woman, and
then when she filed the lawsuit. Though she filed in process.

Speaker 1 (12:00):
Okay, so she's on Okay, so she filed on herself
because the attorney didn't want to touch it, all.

Speaker 9 (12:06):
Right, he doesn't want to get said, of.

Speaker 2 (12:08):
Course not because I'll tell you why.

Speaker 1 (12:10):
Because the attorney can get hit with malicious prosecution or
abusive process.

Speaker 2 (12:16):
So no, there's no way she can. What I would
do is just say, now she has to answer the complaint.

Speaker 1 (12:24):
Okay, eighty four year old Ortory lady has to answer.

Speaker 2 (12:27):
That has to answer the complaint.

Speaker 1 (12:29):
We did that, Okay, then you go, let's set a trial,
let's go to let's go to court.

Speaker 2 (12:36):
You tell her, let's go to trial.

Speaker 1 (12:39):
Okay, you tell you tell a judge how it is
worth hundreds of thousands of dollars for you to live
in a place that is a converted garage, which, by
the way, is not. And here are the photos she's
not gonna share. It's this is blowing smoke. This is

(13:00):
blowing smoke, this is this is actually elder abuse.

Speaker 9 (13:04):
Well that's what we said. In fact, we crossed the
elder abuse. And they said we can't help you because
it's a civil litigation.

Speaker 2 (13:09):
It is civil will.

Speaker 1 (13:10):
That happens all the time. But I would do is
write the letter to her and say we are now looking.
We went and got an attorney. We talked to an attorney.
Don't mention my name because those if she knows who
I am, she starts laughing immediately, So that's off the table.
And just say we've consulted with an attorney and we

(13:32):
believe you are guilty of elder abuse, and we will
go forward with this.

Speaker 2 (13:37):
We will go forward and sue you for elder abuse.
In terms of what you're doing.

Speaker 1 (13:41):
This will go away, by the way, Mary, this will
go away.

Speaker 9 (13:44):
What should we file a cross complaint?

Speaker 2 (13:47):
You could, No, but it doesn't matter.

Speaker 1 (13:49):
I mean, in fact, this just goes away and you
can and you can file the complaint anytime you want.

Speaker 2 (13:54):
You just you know, you amend your answer and you
file the cross complaint.

Speaker 1 (13:57):
It doesn't matter, just the accusation of elder because you're
not going to take it to trial either.

Speaker 9 (14:03):
No, we don't want to, right, So.

Speaker 1 (14:05):
You just what she's doing, you know what this Yeah,
what this woman is doing is just trying to take
advantage of a little old lady and thinks that she's
going to be able to extort someone.

Speaker 2 (14:18):
How strong is your little old lady?

Speaker 9 (14:20):
Friend, she's not that strong.

Speaker 1 (14:23):
No, no, no, I'm talking about no, no, not physically. How
strong is she emotionally? Not?

Speaker 9 (14:28):
She's being treated now for stress.

Speaker 1 (14:30):
Okay, so she Now let me ask you something. Is
she frightened of this?

Speaker 9 (14:35):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (14:36):
All right, Well then then the lady who sued her
is absolutely right. She's got someone who's vulnerable, and that happens,
that happens.

Speaker 9 (14:50):
Can we expedite getting this to trial by yes?

Speaker 6 (14:53):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (14:54):
Yes, oh god, yes, she's eighty four. Yep.

Speaker 9 (14:58):
So what do I smile to?

Speaker 1 (15:01):
Well?

Speaker 2 (15:02):
Here, I mean this is you're going to hire an attorney.
It's going to cost you money.

Speaker 1 (15:06):
Although there are organizations out there that do help little
old ladies.

Speaker 2 (15:10):
Who get sued under these circumstances.

Speaker 1 (15:13):
There are pro bono organizations that help people, and you
can look them up.

Speaker 2 (15:18):
You can just do some search words.

Speaker 1 (15:19):
You can go ahead and Google and just start searching
elder abuse civil cases. By the way, elder abuse involves
civil cases, not just criminal, and just go elder abuse civil.

Speaker 2 (15:34):
You've got landlord tenant.

Speaker 1 (15:37):
You know, you throw these words out, little old ladies
getting sued. You throw that out, and you just you'll
find someone. Believe this woman is going to go away
very quickly.

Speaker 2 (15:50):
It's pure extortion.

Speaker 1 (15:52):
And you've got to tell your friend, your elderly friend,
you got to hold loose, you got to hold on
because this.

Speaker 2 (15:59):
You can't let win on this, and you're gonna win,
all right, I know, Okay, you're gonna be fine.

Speaker 1 (16:05):
So yeah, tell her you're gonna be okay, say you're
going to be fine.

Speaker 2 (16:09):
Stop it, relax, all right.

Speaker 6 (16:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (16:14):
I hate people that do that.

Speaker 1 (16:16):
You know, they do take advantage of Can you imagine
It's an un permitted place that I've been living in
for four months and now I want hundreds of thousands
of dollars just to scare someone.

Speaker 2 (16:28):
It just gets really, it's very depressing.

Speaker 1 (16:32):
Now, I'll tell you who do you trust when it
comes to your privacy online?

Speaker 2 (16:37):
How about nobody?

Speaker 1 (16:39):
Because everything about you is available out there online. I
could go online and know where you work, where you live,
where you bank, what you buy, where, court records, DMV information,
credit score, social media. I mean, I can get all
of that. So if you think you have privacy, you
are dreaming. But let me tell you what else happens

(16:59):
even worse than that, because that information that is online
about you is collected by hundreds of data brokers who
then sell it to anyone who wants to buy it,
even the bad guys.

Speaker 2 (17:12):
And there you are. I think you're vulnerable.

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Speaker 7 (18:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM six.

Speaker 1 (18:04):
Forty Bill Handle here Marginal Legal Advice.

Speaker 2 (18:09):
Alex, Hi, Alex, welcome, Hi. Bill.

Speaker 6 (18:13):
A sinkhole in the front of my house. The CD
said that it caused by my sewer. Then I found
out my sewer is not there where they claim to be.
It's about twenty feet away. And I spoke to the engineer,
I spoke to.

Speaker 2 (18:27):
His boss, and they said it's me.

Speaker 6 (18:30):
So they give me only one option. Either I dig
it up and if it's their fault, they responsible. If
I don't, the city will dig it up, and if
it's my fault, they're.

Speaker 2 (18:39):
Gonna send me the massive bill. Yeah they are. So
now you've got a problem.

Speaker 1 (18:44):
The city has made a decision that it is your fault,
and you have proof that has nothing to do with
your sewer line.

Speaker 2 (18:50):
Correct, My sewer is twenty feet away. No, I understand.
So they're saying it's hold on.

Speaker 1 (18:57):
They're saying it's your sewer line, and you have proof
that it is not your sewer line because your sewer
line is twenty feet away.

Speaker 2 (19:04):
Correct.

Speaker 9 (19:05):
Correct?

Speaker 1 (19:06):
Okay, you may you appeal that denial. You make a
claim against the city, the city denies it.

Speaker 2 (19:14):
They always deny it.

Speaker 1 (19:15):
Then you appeal that because there's a whole appeals process,
and at the end of that appeal you simply say no,
you may have to fill it in yourself. You may
have to, and you sue the city. That's what you
get to do. How much is it going to cost
to fill in that sinkhole?

Speaker 6 (19:34):
I'm not sure. Still looking for a contractor with what
they called a Class A license to do work on
the Okay street.

Speaker 2 (19:43):
All right, so I have no idea what it's going
to cost, but you may have to end up.

Speaker 1 (19:46):
The city says you have to do it, You say no,
you appeal it, and if you have to, you're putting
it in because you have no choice. There's a sinkhole
in front of your house, and it's it's a mess.
You're dealing with a city, You're dealing with a municipal authority,
which is crazy. By the way, you have to make
a claim to the city within six months of a lawsuit.

Speaker 2 (20:08):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (20:10):
Yeah, you have to have to make a claim saying hey,
it is your fault, I demand this or I am
going to sue you, because if you don't make that
claim within six months.

Speaker 2 (20:18):
You're kind of screwed. Okay, so let's go for there. Sylvia, Hi, Sylvia, welcome.
Hi still Yes, Okay.

Speaker 9 (20:26):
My question my question is my husband and I are
on a dispute right now. You know, he's been unfaithful
to me. And we've been together for over thirty years,
but actually married since two thousand and two, and we
have four children. But you know, we have a family trust.

(20:47):
But it turns out the biggest assets that we own
together it's not under the trust. And I want to
know you know everything he owns because you know it
with a mother.

Speaker 1 (20:59):
Okay, the assets you okay, the assets you have.

Speaker 2 (21:03):
I assume there's property.

Speaker 9 (21:04):
There, right, Yes, it's okay.

Speaker 2 (21:07):
Who owns the property?

Speaker 9 (21:10):
My husband?

Speaker 2 (21:11):
It's in his name.

Speaker 9 (21:13):
He didn't. Yeah, he said he will put it under
the trust and he did it.

Speaker 1 (21:17):
Okay. And the property was a property paid for? Was
it bought during the course of the marriage?

Speaker 2 (21:24):
Yes? Okay. Well, and you are getting divorced at this point.

Speaker 9 (21:32):
Well, I don't believe in divorce. I'm a Catholic person,
you know, with faith. But he does want to get divorced.

Speaker 1 (21:37):
And I will tell you I got news for you.
He wants to get divorced. You can be Catholic all
you want. You're not going to be able to stop
at Sylvia.

Speaker 9 (21:44):
No, I understand that.

Speaker 6 (21:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (21:46):
By the way, and you don't believe in divorce, trust me, Uh,
you're going to believe in divorce when you are divorced, right, Okay,
you got that, Okay, fair enough.

Speaker 9 (21:56):
All right, But I just want to know how I
can say that family.

Speaker 1 (21:58):
Home all right, Well, if the family home was purchased
with community assets, in other words, the down payment, was
it done during the course of your marriage, yes, okay, okay,
And so it's community property. The fact that it's in
his name is not going to help him very much.

(22:20):
You can have your name put on there. You own
half that property, Sylvia, whether it's in your name or not,
you own fifty percent of that property. And the fact
that he did not put it in the trust, well,
during the court, once the divorce happens, that's all going
to be caught up.

Speaker 2 (22:36):
Believe me. The fact that it's in his name doesn't
really matter.

Speaker 1 (22:40):
That he just didn't put it into the trust because
he didn't put it in the trust.

Speaker 2 (22:45):
You know, obviously not a nice guy when it comes
to that.

Speaker 9 (22:48):
So no, And you know, the thing is that I
was very like committed to my family and I signed
a lot of documents that I did the interest off.

Speaker 1 (22:56):
Well okay, yeah, So if you signed your right away
to your husband, which sounds like you did, yes, yeah, okay,
well let's do this. Did you have an attorney represent
you at that time or did you consult with an
attorney when.

Speaker 2 (23:14):
You signed your rights away?

Speaker 9 (23:16):
No?

Speaker 1 (23:16):
Okay, Well that's good for you, because you're going to
argue you had no idea what you were signing, and
you simply trusted him when he had you sign the
document by which you gave up all of your rights
which you are entitled to. So I think during the
course of a divorce you're going to be covered. I

(23:38):
think the law will recognize that you own half that property. Now,
who is living in the property?

Speaker 9 (23:46):
Well, right now, I for my first myself, because he
came up with an excuse like three years ago that
he wanted to renovate just to kick me out.

Speaker 1 (23:53):
Okay, all right, And by the way, he can try
to kick you out because he owns the property. And
at that point you let him know. Then we're going
to court and you're going to get nailed on this.
And the court may very well order that you pay
my attorney's fees as well as yours. I don't know
if that's true, but you certainly make that allegation, or

(24:13):
you certainly make that threat, all right.

Speaker 2 (24:16):
So right now you're living in the house. He is
not correct. Yes, he's living with his friend.

Speaker 1 (24:22):
Okay, and who is paying the mortgage, the taxes.

Speaker 2 (24:28):
The maintenance he is. Leave it alone until the divorce.
Leave it alone.

Speaker 1 (24:33):
You're getting free rent, right I am and your cover.
Just just leave it alone, Sylvia. The balls in his court.
And if you end up living there for the next
ten years and he doesn't collect the money, and then
in the end you get half the property. Anyways, Okay,
you're way ahead of the game.

Speaker 9 (24:52):
But I should make it clear that this house has
like a half of the house.

Speaker 4 (24:57):
I am in it.

Speaker 9 (24:58):
Well, he's he allowed me to stay in the half
of the house.

Speaker 2 (25:01):
Because yeah, that's why I'm telling you.

Speaker 1 (25:03):
No, no, it's not quite staying which half left hand
the left hand side of.

Speaker 2 (25:06):
The house or the right hand side of the house. Sylvia.

Speaker 1 (25:09):
Just leave it alone, just at this point. Don't make
any demands. Don't say you own half the house. Just
leave it alone until he makes a demand that you
get out of the house. And at that point you say,
you know what, I own half of the house, even

(25:30):
if it's in your name, because you had me sign
a document of which I gave up my rights and
I didn't have an attorney and I didn't.

Speaker 2 (25:39):
Know what I was signing.

Speaker 1 (25:42):
Right, Okay, that's what you want to do at that point,
except the free rent, accept the mortgage payments or whatever
being paid by him, the taxes, the maintenance.

Speaker 2 (25:51):
Yeah, absolutely, Oh you know, poor get, I was going
to get.

Speaker 1 (25:54):
I'm gonna put you on hold there for a second
because one of the things that people ask me, boy,
what an hour it's been in terms of personal injury questions?
And what happens when you have a personal injury car
accident or slip and fall, or you're in a store
and rent a cup assaults you or whatever, and it's
not your fault. You've been injured, and so you got

(26:14):
to claim, right, and so what do you do? Well,
I'll tell you what's going to do. You exchange information
and the other side, insurance company calls you and says,
we want to pay for the car repair. Well, that's good,
and we want to pay your medical expenses, Well that's good.
And when we get I want to give you some
money for paying and suffering. Well that's good. And here's
how much we're going to give you. And it's a pittance.

(26:36):
Compared to what you can get. Because those guys are
experts not paying you, you're out of your wheelhouse. In
steps a personal injury lawyer to represent you. Do you
pay money upfront?

Speaker 2 (26:45):
You do not.

Speaker 1 (26:47):
They take a percentage of what they settle for and
if there's no settlement, they get no money, so it's
never out of pocket. So I created handleothlaw dot com
to get you that right attorney. Handle on the way
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I make the phone call. They're real good and they
get you as much money. And that's all you talk

(27:08):
about is money here. They're going to get you as
much money as basically you deserve. Call eight eight eight
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Speaker 2 (27:21):
Com this Is handle on The.

Speaker 7 (27:24):
Law you're listening To Bill handle on demand FROM KFI
am six Forty.

Speaker 1 (27:33):
Marginal Legal. Advice. Anna, Hello, anna welcome to handle on The.

Speaker 4 (27:39):
Law, well thank, You i'm so glad your. ANSWER i
hope you can give me the, answer because, NO i
couldn't get the answer for anybody, else not even the
legal aids here In Orange. County but the point IS
i was living with my mother for fifteen years in an.
Apartment she was the only one on the leave she passed.
Away so BUT i want to keep the, apartment but

(28:01):
they don't want To the tenant doesn't want to give
me a rent to the apartment to. Me you, know
DO i have any right to? Produce?

Speaker 1 (28:09):
No, no if they don't, know if they don't want
to rent to, you they don't want to rent to.

Speaker 2 (28:13):
You, no there's.

Speaker 4 (28:15):
Noagn BECAUSE i dwell in there for fifteen, years doesn't.

Speaker 1 (28:18):
Matter you could be dwelling in there for eighty years
unless it is rent.

Speaker 2 (28:24):
Controlled unless it is rent, controlled BUT i don't. Know
you can argue your a.

Speaker 1 (28:28):
Tenant hold on a, minute you can argue your a
tenant because you've been in there the least with your
mother that's.

Speaker 2 (28:33):
Gone so there is no. Lease so what you have
as a? Tendancy? Yeah where where is the apartment?

Speaker 4 (28:41):
In i'm coast to? County?

Speaker 1 (28:44):
Okay, yeah, no, no, nope you got To, no you
got a. Problem there's no rent, control no rent.

Speaker 2 (28:49):
Control.

Speaker 1 (28:49):
YEAH i wish it was in the city Of Los,
angeles and if it, was there is tremendous rent control
on behalf of. Tenants same thing With Santa. Monica but
if Talking Orange, county now they can just say. Goodbye
and so you get to find another. Apartment how much
you're paying for the?

Speaker 4 (29:05):
Apartment, well it was from section, eight, Oh section.

Speaker 1 (29:11):
Eight, yeah let's. Say have you talked to the section eight.

Speaker 4 (29:14):
People, yeah but they don't give me any.

Speaker 1 (29:17):
Answer they, all, right, well the worst thing that happens
is you stay, put they evict.

Speaker 2 (29:23):
You i'm surprised that section eight people don't give you any.
Help that's kind of.

Speaker 1 (29:26):
Bizarre just, okay so they just take your, money right
the section eight. People by the, way was it your
mom that was Getting section eight that's the? Rent or
is it you that's Getting section?

Speaker 4 (29:37):
Eight, no my?

Speaker 2 (29:39):
Mother, okay yeah you're not you're.

Speaker 1 (29:42):
Not there under section. Eight, yeah that's your. Mom, YEAH
i THINK i think you're. Done, Oh, gina, Hi gina, Hi, yes, yes.

Speaker 2 (29:53):
Ma'am.

Speaker 10 (29:55):
Okay SO i have this, attorney this injury off to
THAT i, had and my attorney wanted to basically bamboozle
me BY i had a twenty thousand settlement and then he, said,
okay so after fees and, leans you're going to get
two thousand, dollars SO i, refused and then the amount

(30:18):
kept increasing to, okay four, thousand five. THOUSAND i refused
to agree to any of, that and he said that
IF i didn't, agree he would. Resign the story, short
he ended up he ended up resigning before the case,
settlement SO i had to pursue on my.

Speaker 5 (30:34):
Own just continue the.

Speaker 1 (30:35):
Case why do you have to pursue on your own
as opposed to getting another, Lawyer.

Speaker 5 (30:40):
Well BECAUSE i didn't know what to do at the.

Speaker 2 (30:43):
Time SO i get another, Lawyer you go to another
personal injury. Lawyer, well, NO.

Speaker 10 (30:48):
I, already BUT i settled the, case all, right all,
Right SO i settled the case on my own and
THEN i got the. Check but naturally he's on the
he had to sign the check in order for me
to sign a.

Speaker 5 (31:00):
Check SO i reached out to, him AND i just.

Speaker 10 (31:02):
Asked him to provide an, invoice because you, KNOW i
still owe him even if he, RESIGNED i still owe him.

Speaker 3 (31:08):
For his hourly.

Speaker 10 (31:08):
Whatever so he said that he will take the forty
percent and he would weigh the additional fees that he.

Speaker 2 (31:16):
Encountered how much are the additional, fees you, Know, well.

Speaker 5 (31:20):
It's forty percent of the. Settlement, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 1 (31:22):
No how much are the additional fees he wants forty?

Speaker 10 (31:26):
Percent it's about seven to eight hundred dollars, now, Okay.

Speaker 1 (31:30):
Well so the additional, fees all, right and he wants forty,
percent and you're saying those are excessive successive?

Speaker 2 (31:37):
Fees all?

Speaker 10 (31:38):
Right well, yeah because he resigned From OH i, UNDERSTAND i.

Speaker 1 (31:41):
Understand and when he, resigned you went ahead and negotiated
on your own? Understood and how long was that negotiation?
Period maybe six?

Speaker 4 (31:52):
Months all?

Speaker 1 (31:53):
Right and he is not signing off on the. Check
well that gets kind of. Interesting so you what do
you want to? Do you want to you want to?

Speaker 5 (32:03):
Fight, well, yeah BECAUSE i need to have this check and.

Speaker 2 (32:09):
Got, it got, it got, it got?

Speaker 10 (32:10):
It?

Speaker 2 (32:10):
Gina where do you live.

Speaker 10 (32:13):
Your?

Speaker 5 (32:13):
Belinda?

Speaker 2 (32:14):
Okay there is.

Speaker 1 (32:16):
AND i don't.

Speaker 2 (32:16):
Know There's La? County is Your, no Your blinda is
not In La? County is?

Speaker 1 (32:22):
It?

Speaker 5 (32:23):
No It's Orange. County but my case was In La.

Speaker 2 (32:26):
County that, oh all, right the case was An Orange
county all?

Speaker 1 (32:31):
Right there was And i'm going to assume this is
the case In Orange county and there is uh this
the local bar has a fee resolution dispute committee hearing
and you can go.

Speaker 2 (32:44):
There, uh and.

Speaker 1 (32:48):
You can you can ask for fee resolution hearing THAT
i think he has to go to and you just
sit down and do.

Speaker 2 (32:56):
It the other situation.

Speaker 1 (32:58):
Is that you simply ask for an investigation from the state.

Speaker 2 (33:03):
Bar that's.

Speaker 1 (33:05):
It, okay let's go in front of the State bar
And i'm asking for an investigation because you're charging excessive. Fees,
now his argument is going to be he still did
most of the, work but that he. Resigned he shouldn't
get forty. Percent it should go down. Dramatically and the, fact,

(33:26):
yeah the fact that it's, settled, okay the fact that it's.

Speaker 2 (33:30):
Settled how much did it settled? For did you say
twenty thousand dollars? Yet and you got two?

Speaker 10 (33:35):
Thousand, well, no he wanted me to get two.

Speaker 3 (33:39):
Thousand THAT i.

Speaker 5 (33:39):
Refused, NO i, understand.

Speaker 1 (33:41):
But, OKAY i understand that he wants you to get two.
Thousand i'm assuming a lot of that is medical bills.

Speaker 10 (33:47):
Also so there was a medical lean for two, thousand
but that's already been.

Speaker 2 (33:51):
Paid out of.

Speaker 5 (33:53):
Where, well there was a lean on, It so.

Speaker 2 (33:57):
Who paid who paid the who paid?

Speaker 10 (34:01):
It he?

Speaker 4 (34:01):
Paid?

Speaker 2 (34:02):
Okay the lawyer paid it.

Speaker 9 (34:04):
Off, right, yes, Okay so that.

Speaker 1 (34:07):
Reduces, okay that reduces the amount of money that you
would get because a two thousand dollars lien is a
two thousand dollars.

Speaker 2 (34:15):
Lien now this gets. Interesting what kind of injury was, This?

Speaker 10 (34:18):
Gina SO i ate a piece of like metal at
a buffet restaurant.

Speaker 4 (34:26):
And like it was like in my.

Speaker 5 (34:29):
System excuse me for?

Speaker 9 (34:31):
Much?

Speaker 1 (34:32):
Okay what when when it was in your? System what
happened to you as a result of this?

Speaker 5 (34:38):
Medal internal? Bleeding all?

Speaker 2 (34:41):
Right all, right this. Question so.

Speaker 1 (34:45):
You're obviously you're in h you're both playing chicken with
each other and you and you, said, no you're not
going to pay. Him you want to negotiate his, fee
and he is, saying too, BAD i want forty, right.

Speaker 10 (35:00):
Either forty percent or you would build me. Hourly and
he said that it would be over fifty hours of
work and it would add up to over total twenty.

Speaker 1 (35:07):
Bill, Okay so you asked for a statement either, way
AND i would go AND i would go. Either if
you have a local bar that has a fee resolution,
PROCESS i would go. There and if, not you start
arguing you are charging excessive, fees and that is a
violation of the canons of. Ethics AND i am turning

(35:27):
you into the state bar and let's let them deal with.

Speaker 2 (35:31):
This that's WHAT i would do at this. Point and
you can't. Sign you're not going to get your money
for a. While it's that.

Speaker 5 (35:36):
Simple AND i have the check expires.

Speaker 1 (35:40):
That you'll get it back from the insurance. Company don't
worry about. It that's not a big. One, yeah it
probably will expire because it's going to take yousel a
lot longer than six. Months so those are the two
things THAT i would. DO i don't know of anything
more of that that can be.

Speaker 2 (35:56):
Done all.

Speaker 1 (35:57):
Right one of the things we're going to do BEFORE
i bail and say goodbye is talk about online. Privacy
AND i just had a phone call a few minutes
ago talking about where someone got information and CAN i
do anything about?

Speaker 2 (36:10):
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Speaker 1 (36:11):
CAN'T i, mean you can ask these data brokers to
delete information that they have on, you but there's so
many of them because everything you.

Speaker 2 (36:20):
Have about you is.

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Available your home, address where you, work or your, bank
what you, buy where you buy, it court, records YOUR dmv,
information your credit, score all of that is, available and
data brokers collect it and then they sell. It they
sell it to people who buy it like bad guys
or people who want mailing, lists or people want to

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