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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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six forty. Handle here on a Saturday morning, and we've
had a pretty good number of phone calls come in.
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right now. Some of them pretty interesting and some of
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And so that's at the Wild Fork this afternoon at
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Eight hundred and five two zero one five three four.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
This is handle on the law, marginal legal advice, where
I tell you you have absolutely no case. The issue
of immigration raids is absolutely fascinating and it's a big,
big constitutional issue. Here in southern California, Los Angeles, we
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are at the center of this entire issue. As a
matter of fact, California and specifically southern California, we're the
poster child of this fight between the Trump administration and
local cities and back and forth. Lawsuits have been filed,
in junctions where judges say you can't do this for
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a period of time. A injunction stops the government, or
a federal judge says to Immigration that all of these
people picked up must have access to a judge, I mean,
to a lawyer.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
So it's all up in the air. Now.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Underlying all of that are the lawsuits as to the
constitutionality of the government doing this in the first place,
and a lawsuit was filed by.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
The American Civil Liberties Union.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Of course, the ACLU of Southern California Public Council and
Immigrants' rights groups against the Trump administration, and the City
and County of La are among the local governments that
are asking to join the lawsuit because it's really breaking
down on two sides, so they file the motion, and
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the lawsuit itself claims that the region Southern California is
under siege by federal agent and aims to stop federal
agencies from going ongoing pattern and practice of flouting the
Constitution and federal law during immigration raids. So the very
raids themselves are unconstitutional, is the argument.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Now.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
The Trump administration filed their own lawsuit against the City
of Los Angeles, saying, since the city is a sanctuary
city and will not cooperate with federal officers following federal law,
it's the city that is violating the Constitution. I mean
clearly as going up to the Supreme Court, and the
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crackdown is in its second month and.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
It's pretty vicious.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
The Trump administration first said that immigration raids were going
to be limited to people who have violated the law
who are bad people pursuing to this statement that was
made by President Trump. Felons, people had been deported and
came back, people have been arrested for serious crimes. Those
were the people that were going to be picked up
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and deported. Well, guess what, it's now a much larger broom,
much larger broom, because the allegation is the Trump administration
is sweeping anybody up. And part of the lawsuit says,
the reason you're going to these places is because these
are Hispanics, these are Latinos, and those are where you're
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going after. In other words, it's not only discrimination, it's
out and out racist. Now, the reality is since the majority,
the vast majority of those who are illegal migrants in
southern California are Latinos, are Hispanic you know, does that
argument go because this is where we go, and this
is where we find illegal migrants at the home depots,
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the gross restores, at the huge construction sites, factories.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
That pay minimum wage, that don't need any kind of
skill set.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
So this lawsuit is continuing and it really has to
do with how much power does a federal government have.
And this is I think the biggest issue that is
affecting us and how we deal with the administration. How
much power does the presidency have because Donald Trump is
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stretching the limits and saying I have total and complete power.
By the way, the Republican Congress agrees with that, as
I've said, Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House, has
said outright, the job of Congress is not to legislate
or as a third branch. The job of government is
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simply to further the president's agenda.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
That's why we're here.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
So instead of the three brandes of government checks and balances, judiciary,
legislative and executive, Trump is now saying there are only
two branches because the executive had been sucked into or
the legislative been sucked into the executive. And now the judges,
the radical left wing judges that are violating the constitution.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
We have to unravel that too. Scary stuff, it really is.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
All right, let's go ahead and take a phone call
or to start with you, Dave Welcome, Hey, Bill pay Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
We were doing the job where we broke out a
driveway and my guys are on the bobcat. They broke
the driveway and the power line from southern California Edison
was directly underneath of the concrete at four inches and
when they popped it, it broke the line. And so
you know, everybody came out Southern California, Edison, everybody and
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so they and when we were talking to the crew
members who then fix a line and got that power
back back to the family that night, they said this
is a needed repair. They were going to put it
in as that on their notes, and then lo and behold.
Four months later, I get a bill for fourteen five
hundred and so I did a video on it. It's
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up on YouTube where I showed that, you know, it
was insult improperly, Okay, I talked to guys so on
the California Other a sudden he said that over time,
you know, elevations change and things can happen where the
power line can you know, raise up? And my son
was on the phone with me, and so I said, seriously,
you said, you said, over time, a power line we're
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supposed to be eighteen inches to two feet below grade
can just raise up. And he says, well, you know,
things happen.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Oh right, yet I yet, so you got to build
for fourteen thousand dollars and I'm assuming you didn't record
that conversation or you weren't given consent to record it.
So that's pocketed change anything that's not going to affect
the case. So they're sending you a fourteen thousand dollars
bill and you're saying, no, thank you, right, yep, correct,
that's what you do. Then the ball's in their court
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and they're going to conceivably file a lawsuit against you.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Don't know the answer to that, and you say no,
You say simply no.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
And based on what you say, this was four inches
instead of the required eighteen inches, And for anybody, for
anybody from the utility coming in and say, oh, it
just happens, they go from eighteen inches up to four
inches over time.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
She sounds like a crock to me right now.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
So where the pair line came up through the planter
from that to go to the panel, it was a
two inches below grade where the lady was where she
had been planting plants. And it's just.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Nice, okay. So it's so cal edison. So you simply
say no, thank you. That's it, no thanks, And if
they take you to course, you find it. And based
on what you say or the way you describe it,
you're gonna win. The problem is as you are dealing
with you're dealing with the city which has unlimited resources.
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But on the other hand, if you have insurance, if
you have negligence one insurance, you cover it. I mean,
it's hard to have a business that doesn't or successful business,
so you toss it to your insurance company.
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handle on the law. May I do this? Since KFI,
you'll hand it here On a Saturday morning, Hey, this
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on the morning show, he is broadcasting from the Wild
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Santa Clarita, right near Magic Mountain, and.
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They'll be giveaways, I mean, some really good ones and
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Back we go more handle on the law marginal legal
advice where I tell you you have absolutely no case.
Let me get my icon going here on the computer,
there is an Hello Ann welcome.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Hi.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Do yes, ma'am.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
I have a judgment against my ex husband that I
thought during my divorce. The divorce was in La and
he is in Arizona. We moved, we had a home
in Arizona. Anyway, he got involved with the woman in
Arizona and got on her deed and tried to get
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her or got her to sign a quick clean and
the judge has ordered the house sold. So my question
is do I already have an abstract filed on him
in Arizona? The case has been domesticated in Arizona. You've
done it all.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
You've done it all.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
No, No, the abstract is a lean and you've already
gotten a court order that says he has to turn
over the property. Oh no, that's easy now because it's
going through the system where if he fails to do that,
the court will simply order the county Recorder's office to
transfer the property, and they will do it even without
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his permission, went to a court order. So you've done
everything and the house will be yours once the transfer
takes place.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
You can do whatever the hell you want. And if he
somehow puts a.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Lean against the house himself or throws a lis pendance
on which stops everything, it legally stops anything being done,
you sue him and you are going to get a judgment,
and it's going to be you know, if he doesn't
do what he's supposed to do, Eventually you go in
for contempt of court hearings and the judge will grant it,
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and at some point two, three, four times later, the
judge tosses him in jail for contempt. Now obviously not
for a year or six months, but I've seen him
for a couple of weeks, and if he does it again,
he's even longer in prison. So you're doing everything and
that you can possibly do. There's no more advice that
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I can give you at all.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
William name I can easily remember.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Hello William, Hey Bill, Hi, I need some more legal advice.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
We have a situation. My daughter took her dog to
a flight football game at my granddaughter's school, and the
dog was on a leash and harnessed the whole time.
After the game, there was an eighth grade boy that
ran up behind the dog with the ball. It was
almost on top of him. The dog was spooked and provoked.
He jumped up. The boy fell over. My daughter asked
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the boy twice if he was okay. Both times he
said yes. He subsequently saw some blood, went to the
middle school principal and said he had been bitten by
a dog, and the nurse treated him, you know, just
band aid sort of treatment. They filed a school incident report.
The middle school principal said that she confirmed that he
was bitten by a dog. The dog has never had
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a history of biting. The mom came and picked the
boy up, and she's a personal injury lawyer. She took
the school incident report, filed a police report based solely
on the statement by her son that he was bitten
by the dog. She didn't take her son to the
doctor until the following day. Subsequently, mom communicates only by email,
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refuses to talk with us. Her son told other students
at the school that his mom was going to take
all my daughter's money. She finally filed acclaim for thirty
thousand dollars with my daughter's insurance company, claiming medical treatment,
including prescriptions continuing therapy. She and her traumatized son and
her traumatized family. They've had to limit travel and other activities.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Yeah, of course, that's your typical.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
All right, Let me communicate with the insurance.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Yeah, she doesn't have to, she doesn't have to call you.
She can do it via email. Matter of fact, she
doesn't have to talk to you at all. She can
file a lawsuit without every without ever even talking to you.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
So she's only communicated with the insurance company by email.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
So you so she's tarting in an insurance company, your
insurance company or her insurance company, my.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
Daughter's insurance company.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Okay, then you'll let.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Them handle it.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
You let them handle it. You're done, there's nothing more
to do.
Speaker 5 (16:04):
We have two witnesses. We have a witness and eighteen
year old Senidor who witnessed it and said that the
dog did not bite the boy.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Okay, I mean that's fine. So that's part.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
So you let the insurance company know. Here are two
witnesses that saw what didn't happen. Here are their names.
And you let the insurance company deal with with her.
And I'm surprised she didn't ask that, she didn't get
a doctor to say that the boy's leg has to
be removed because it was so severe and arterii were
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in fact cut open or bit open, and the kid
bled out, And I'm surprised that the kid isn't dead
as a result of the dog bite. Let your insurance
company handle it, and they're.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Gonna do it quickly.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
The other witness was the.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
It doesn't matter, William, It doesn't matter. None of that matters,
none of it. Your insurance company is going to say.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
No.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
She can demand forty thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
The insurance company is gonna say, we'll deal with you,
will give you your medical the three hundred dollars or
the four hundred dollars, and that's all will give you.
And if she decides she's going to file a lawsuit
and go to court, you go to court, and your
insurance company pays for the attorney.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Yeah, she's not, of course not.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
She's gonna get.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
You know what she's gonna get.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
She's gonna get a couple, she's gonna get a couple
thousand dollars that's what she's gonna get, and it's your
insurance company, might right, and.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
And but then you fight your insurance company.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Then you fight your insurance company and say it was
a non incident, that it never happened. If they want
to pay, they want to pay all that, you don't care.
If they want to write a check for one hundred
thousand dollars. Uh, And you can establish that none of
that happens. That's not your problem, that's their problem.
Speaker 5 (17:50):
Okay, so fine, But she's telling out right lies, I mean.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Okay, so what of course she's okay, now what all right? No, No,
of course she's going to tell outright lies. Okay, Now
what your insurance company handles all of that?
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Well with a shocker, a personal injury lawyer telling out
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KFI handle Here it is a Saturday morning, last half
hour of a show.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
But he still continued with phone calls off the air.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
At the end of the show, and for the first
time in the two and a half hours been around,
we are light with phone calls. That's not to say
we don't have any, but we have more lines open
than we have through the entire show. So let me
tell you sometimes yes, sometimes no. So now is a
good time to call the number. Eight hundred five to
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zero one five three four, eight hundred five to zero
one five three four.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
This is Handle on the Law. Welcome back Marginal Legal Advice.
Hello Heather, Hi Bill, Yes.
Speaker 7 (20:40):
Man, the question for you. So, my ex husband opened
accounts for all of our kids when you know, when
they're miners, they have to like have an adults on
the account. And my middle daughter, who is a genius
but is an idiot, never took her dad off of
her account, and last week the franchise Calvin Franchise Tax
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Board attached and removed over eight thousand dollars from her
account because her dad owes money. I'm just wondering what
her like, what she can do. Can she go to
the franchise tax board? Can she do her dad like
she talked to the franchise tax board and they're like,
oh no, no, no, we'll stop it. We'll stop it,
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and then they didn't and they took the money out right.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Yes, first of all, let me start with Mozeltov, which
is Hebrew for a congratulations, great deal. The problem is
is that he had a bank account. The fact that
someone else is also on the bank account doesn't really matter,
even if it's the reverse, and bank accounts are susceptible
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to not only the irs, which doesn't go as far
as the Franchise Tax Board. Franchise Tax Board is probably
the most brutal taxing.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Agency that exists in the United States.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Do you know that there's no statute of limitations with
the Franchise Tax Board that if let's say you get
tagged with a Franchise Tax Board a tax situation or
a violation of some kind where you owe the Franchise
Tax Board.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Money, there's no statute.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
So let's say it happens in your twenties, and it
just builds and builds and builds, and by the time
you die in your eighties, if you have not dealt
with it, there isn't an There is not enough room
on your tombstone for the zeros that are going to happen.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
So it's it's going to be tough.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
It's one of those where you can make a claim
against the franchise tax board. But they're saying, hey, legally,
we have the right to go into an account that is,
oh that is owned by an individual when that individual
owns money, And I don't think it matters how and
where someone if someone else is on the account. Now,
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there may be an exception to it. For example, in
with the world of the I R S. I think
a franchise tax board allows the innocent spouse if the
spouse doesn't know anything about it, then the spouse is
not held to penalties, et cetera. There may be something
similar to that. And I don't know the answer, but
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you know, okay, So.
Speaker 7 (23:19):
Even if she could prove that like he has never Yeah, no,
I understand.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
No, Yeah, that's and that's part of it. Yeah, that's
part of it, proving that she was innocent. And but
she's an idiot, like you pointed out, and a genius
at the same time. I have one of those. Yes, yes,
I definitely have one of those. And uh, you just
shake your head and you go, come on, will you guys?
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Are you going to do that? Jane, Hello, Jane, welcome,
Oh hi Bell how are you go ahead?
Speaker 8 (23:53):
Okay, So we had a medical malpractice attorney.
Speaker 9 (23:59):
We had a family member die of hospital neglegs, and
we got an attorney and they we signed a retainer
and everything was fine.
Speaker 8 (24:12):
And then in April they said, oh, you know, because
a COVID it's a long, convoluted story, We're not going
to take case anymore.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Dumped us.
Speaker 8 (24:23):
We then found out that in March the statue of
limitations had run out for the medical malpractice.
Speaker 9 (24:34):
They didn't file an extension to it. I believe they
messed up, and this is why they dumped us.
Speaker 8 (24:41):
Have we got a because I I can't get another
medical malpractice?
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Well, here's the problem. You've got malpractice going on. Statue
was blown. That's an easy one. Or dumping you just
before the statute and not giving you when and saying
I'm not going to do it anymore. They do it
by letter and not telling you, Hey, the statute is
coming up, let's say two weeks from now, three weeks
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from now, and please make sure you file before the statute.
If none of that happens, yes, you've got legal malpractice
all over the place. The problem is how valuable was
the underlying case, and it almost is. You have to
try the underlying case because what are your damages? There's
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legal malpractice involved one hundred percent. Now you still have
to prove how badly you were hurt. And the only
way to prove how badly you were hurt your injury,
that is the malpractice and losing a loved one is
the case itself.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
And yeah, it's hard. Yeah, go ahead now on the sign.
Speaker 8 (25:52):
We've spoke to so many medical malpractice attorneys have all said,
if you come to us in January, would have tiped
can the caise, you would have won.
Speaker 9 (26:02):
But because his statue is wrong, I understand.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
He blew the statu No, they blew the statute. I
get it. And so there is legal metal practice. As
I said, it's on its face.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
I mean, you got screwed pretty badly because no one
is willing to take the underlying case because that has
to be established too.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
So how many attorneys have you gone to, Jane.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
Oh about ten?
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Yeah it's tough, Yeah, it is tough.
Speaker 7 (26:30):
So I need I need a good legal.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
No you do, you need an illegal malpractice attorney.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
And you have to just start looking.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Medical malpractice attorneys can't do anything because a statute is blown,
they can't file. There's there's nothing to file you past
the statute. So yeah, so you now have to start
looking for a legal malpractice attorney.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
And that's no funny.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
And you got you got screwed by the system, Jane, unfortunately,
And you're right, and the system screwed you. I mean,
it happens, and yeah, completely completely. So you lost who
did you lose?
Speaker 3 (27:13):
My daughter?
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Oh my god, that's terrible. That is terrible. How old
is she?
Speaker 4 (27:20):
She was in her early thirties.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
I've got two daughters who are thirty.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
I'm sorry, you know, I can't I can't even imagine
imagine which.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
You're Oh, yeah, there's parents. They are not supposed to
bury their children. I mean, it just doesn't. That doesn't
work that way, all right, Jane, Good luck? God, that's
really horrible.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
You know, usually I make fun of everybody, you know that, uh,
and I just rip into people. But occasionally I run
into where we run into a case like that. And
how do you make fun of a parent losing a child?
I mean I try, you know, I'm going through my
list of how I make a lot of people. Can't
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do it on that one, you know, all you can
do is it's commiserate and it's it's just heartbreaking, it's
heart wrenching, any any way you describe it. This is
Handle on the LAWFI. Handle here on a Saturday morning,
and this is the last segment of the show. And
the quip reminder that when I lock out and I
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Handle on the Law Marginal Legal Advice.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Hello Rick, Welcome.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
Hello Bill.
Speaker 6 (29:13):
Yeah, fan of the show, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Sure.
Speaker 6 (29:16):
A couple of years ago, my mother, myself and my
wife we owned a property together joint common tenant my
mother decided she wanted to move out. She moved in
with my brother, who I'm estranged with, and a couple
of weeks later we got a letter from a lawyer
for basically forcing us to sell the home or buy
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her out, which was difficult for us at the time,
so we had we had to borrow some money, take
out a second and we bought her out for about
two hundred and forty five thousand dollars. She she recently
passed away, God rest her soul in April. My brother
was power of attorney.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Again.
Speaker 6 (29:57):
We're estranged. But I don't know if there was a will.
I don't know what happened to that money I had heard.
It doesn't matter that my brother.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Yeah, but I think about it doesn't matter. I don't
know what recourse for what? What do you want?
Speaker 6 (30:15):
Well, I want to know if you know I didn't
get to see the will. I don't know if I
was written out of the will, if there were funds,
if he and his wife, what is money or what does.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
That have to do with you buying her out of
the property or are you making that mutually exclusive when
has nothing to do with the other.
Speaker 6 (30:33):
Well, I'm just getting some background. So I know that
she Okay, I know that she had resources.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Okay, got it.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
And you want to know, fair enough, and you want
to know if you were left any money basically, right, okay,
fair enough there is And if a will.
Speaker 6 (30:50):
Well, I don't know. My brother hasn't communicated. He just
you know, okay, he wouldn't even now you can find out.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Okay, enough, right, he got it?
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Easy enough to find out if there was a will,
because that's a public document and it's the usually the
county in which she died, and you just look it up.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
You can look it up on the internet, n ray
the estate of and.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Your mother's name, and then you'll see a will because
it's public. Yeah, it's public document, it's file with the court.
And so if it's a trust, it's a different animal.
And so here you are as a putative beneficiary. That
means it was your mom, You were close, you should
have sort of kind of been a beneficiary, and you're
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not because your brother.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
I mean, all the circumstances you talk about.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
What I would do is, since we're talking about substantial
money here, what I would do is go to a
trust and a state lawyer, and the trust and a
state lawyer knows how to jump into these things, and
it could be at least you should find out if
your mom didn't leave you anything which is her call,
or did leave you some thing and the executor was
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your brother who screwed you out of money. In that case,
you've got a champion lawsuit and that's the trust and
estate lawyers will hire a private investigators and do the research.
So you want to trust in a state lawyer to
figure all this out. It's that simple. The rest of
it I can't help you with, nor should I.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Let me see what else has been there for a while.
Speaker 10 (32:24):
Mark, Hi Mark, Yeah, Hi Bill. I'm not overly sophisticated
financially wise, and I do the basics. But i have
a developer that's interested in a piece of property that
I've held for quite some time, and it's a pretty
decent offer, and I'm just kind of wondering, do I
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need to get like an accountant or a real estate
attorney or yeah?
Speaker 2 (32:51):
No, No, it's real simple.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
You first of all, if it's a decent offer and
it's on the table, maybe you get a real estate
broker that will represent you through this or an agent,
but you negotiate and say all I want you to do.
None of this six percent or five percent crap. What
I want you to do is to help me with this.
(33:16):
You can also go to a real estate attorney and
say how much what will it take for you to
look at this? And you show them the offer and
say what will it take for you to look at
this and make sure that all the teaser connected and
the eyes are dotted, that all the dots are connected connected.
And it shouldn't be very it shouldn't be very much
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money to do that. How much money is the peace
of property?
Speaker 2 (33:41):
What's that worth?
Speaker 10 (33:42):
Well, it's it's it's more than five million.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
And oh jeez, yes, yes, you absolutely hire a real
estate attorney.
Speaker 10 (33:54):
Earlier I had was on capital gains. There's going to
be Unfortunately, there's going to be some capital gains. I
have to talk to an accountant about yes, yes, attorney
about that.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
No, no, no, you don't need a tax attorney at tax
attorneys when you go into litigation with the government, you
just need a decent account an accountant. That's it, because
you're going to pay the capital gains and hopefully you're
going to get some expenses against the capital gains and
you just need it, you know, I have.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
No, I'm not going to give you the name of
my accountant.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Uh yeah, because he's not buying commercial he's not buying
commercials from me, and he charges me full tilt, so
that's not gonna happen.
Speaker 10 (34:32):
But it's a primary residences.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Yeah, no, I understand.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
No, you need Definitely you want to talk to a
real estate attorney and buy a little bit of time
to look at the offer. And definitely an accountant, uh
you know on on that kind of a taxable base.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
Wow, you know, five million dollars. I mean, who would
even call me on that?
Speaker 1 (34:51):
I wouldn't call myself on that, and I've done real
estate deals.
Speaker 11 (34:59):
Mark hell Mark, welcome, Hello, Eric, thank you for taking
my call.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
Sure.
Speaker 11 (35:06):
My wife and I were at a fancy local establishment
about two weeks ago. She has a condition called PLS,
which is a primary lateral sclerosis similar to ALS. It
makes her have slurred speech and her gait is effected,
her balance is affected, looks like it looks like she
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could be drunk sometimes, but it's all a physical thing.
We went into the establishment to have a nice quiet evening.
She ordered one drink and we went to order another drink,
and the bartender decided she had had too much to
drink and she she cut her off. And stress and
(35:52):
anxiety just takes over when my when with this condition.
So at that point, my wife's conditions, you know, immediately
got worse. And we tried to explain to the bartender
what was going on. She had no empathy for that
at all and said, well, you're cut off, and okay.
(36:13):
Essentially it sent my wife into a you know, into
a depression. I mean, it takes me forever to try
to get her outside, and so Erne just wondering if
we have any kind of any kind.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Yeah, that's an interesting case because normally, normally if you
were to call and say, she cut us off, she
threw us oude of the place, she treated us badly,
She verbally abused me.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
I'd go great, go to another place. Leave me alone.
Right now.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
The fact that your wife has this kind of disability,
there may be a violation under the ADA and the
American Disabilities Act. That could be the case. And those
actually are worth something? Are they worth a fortune?
Speaker 2 (36:54):
They are not. Is she going to get two and
a half million dollars? She is not. But there's certainly
a several thousand dollars involved.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
In this one, and it's worth calling any attorney that
deals with the idea. There are attorneys that deal with
America disabilities out and they're specialists. So you get find
one of those off and those out. And it's a
good question, by the.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Way, because normally the the ADA stuff is kind of crappy.
This one.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
Now here's a legitimate disease. There's a legitimate syndrome. Huh Okay.
Before we bail out of here, I want to tell
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Easy for me to say, and you talk about disabilities.
My wife has a disability. It's called complex regional pain
syndrome where she is in pain twenty four hours a day.
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It's chronic.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
It's chronic pain, and for me to deal with it
is very difficult because I'm hopeless, helpless actually, you know,
I walk around. I just see her in pain, and
it's hard for friends and loved ones to deal with it.
If you happen to be living in chronic pain, or
know someone who is, or is treating someone who is,
or you have a loved one who is dealing with
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chronic pain, and the trauma associated. Let me suggest her podcast.
She started this podcast as a way to help herself
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Speaker 2 (38:16):
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Speaker 2 (01:29):
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Speaker 1 (01:34):
This is handle on the law, marginal legal advice, where
I tell you you have absolutely no case. The issue
of immigration raids is absolutely fascinating and it's a big,
big constitutional issue. Here in southern California, Los Angeles, we
(01:54):
are at the center of this entire issue. As a
matter of fact, California and specifically southern California, we're the
poster child of this fight between the Trump administration and
local cities and back and forth. Lawsuits have been filed,
in junctions where judges say you can't do this for
(02:17):
a period of time. A injunction stops the government, or
a federal judge says to Immigration that all of these
people picked up must have access to a judge, I mean,
to a lawyer.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
So it's all up in the air. Now.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Underlying all of that are the lawsuits as to the
constitutionality of the government doing this in the first place,
and a lawsuit was filed by.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
The American Civil Liberties Union.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Of course, the ACLU of Southern California Public Council and
Immigrants' rights groups against the Trump administration, and the City
and County of La are among the local governments that
are asking to join the lawsuit because it's really breaking
down on two sides, so they file the motion, and
(03:07):
the lawsuit itself claims that the region Southern California is
under siege by federal agent and aims to stop federal
agencies from going ongoing pattern and practice of flouting the
Constitution and federal law during immigration raids. So the very
raids themselves are unconstitutional, is the argument.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Now.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
The Trump administration filed their own lawsuit against the City
of Los Angeles, saying, since the city is a sanctuary
city and will not cooperate with federal officers following federal law,
it's the city that is violating the Constitution. I mean
clearly as going up to the Supreme Court, and the
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crackdown is in its second month and.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
It's pretty vicious.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
The Trump administration first said that immigration raids were going
to be limited to people who have violated the law
who are bad people pursuing to this statement that was
made by President Trump. Felons, people had been deported and
came back, people have been arrested for serious crimes. Those
were the people that were going to be picked up
(04:15):
and deported. Well, guess what, it's now a much larger broom,
much larger broom, because the allegation is the Trump administration
is sweeping anybody up. And part of the lawsuit says,
the reason you're going to these places is because these
are Hispanics, these are Latinos, and those are where you're
(04:37):
going after. In other words, it's not only discrimination, it's
out and out racist. Now, the reality is since the majority,
the vast majority of those who are illegal migrants in
southern California are Latinos, are Hispanic you know, does that
argument go because this is where we go, and this
is where we find illegal migrants at the home depots,
(04:59):
the gross restores, at the huge construction sites, factories.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
That pay minimum wage, that don't need any kind of
skill set.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
So this lawsuit is continuing and it really has to
do with how much power does a federal government have.
And this is I think the biggest issue that is
affecting us and how we deal with the administration. How
much power does the presidency have because Donald Trump is
(05:31):
stretching the limits and saying I have total and complete power.
By the way, the Republican Congress agrees with that, as
I've said, Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House, has
said outright, the job of Congress is not to legislate
or as a third branch. The job of government is
(05:53):
simply to further the president's agenda.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
That's why we're here.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
So instead of the three brandes of government checks and balances, judiciary,
legislative and executive, Trump is now saying there are only
two branches because the executive had been sucked into or
the legislative been sucked into the executive. And now the judges,
the radical left wing judges that are violating the constitution.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
We have to unravel that too. Scary stuff, it really is.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
All right, let's go ahead and take a phone call
or to start with you, Dave Welcome, Hey, Bill pay Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
We were doing the job where we broke out a
driveway and my guys are on the bobcat. They broke
the driveway and the power line from southern California Edison
was directly underneath of the concrete at four inches and
when they popped it, it broke the line. And so
you know, everybody came out Southern California, Edison, everybody and
(06:58):
so they and when we were talking to the crew
members who then fix a line and got that power
back back to the family that night, they said this
is a needed repair. They were going to put it
in as that on their notes, and then lo and behold.
Four months later, I get a bill for fourteen five
hundred and so I did a video on it. It's
(07:19):
up on YouTube where I showed that, you know, it
was insult improperly, Okay, I talked to guys so on
the California Other a sudden he said that over time,
you know, elevations change and things can happen where the
power line can you know, raise up? And my son
was on the phone with me, and so I said, seriously,
you said, you said, over time, a power line we're
(07:41):
supposed to be eighteen inches to two feet below grade
can just raise up. And he says, well, you know,
things happen.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Oh right, yet I yet, so you got to build
for fourteen thousand dollars and I'm assuming you didn't record
that conversation or you weren't given consent to record it.
So that's pocketed change anything that's not going to affect
the case. So they're sending you a fourteen thousand dollars
bill and you're saying, no, thank you, right, yep, correct,
that's what you do. Then the ball's in their court
(08:12):
and they're going to conceivably file a lawsuit against you.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Don't know the answer to that, and you say no,
You say simply no.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
And based on what you say, this was four inches
instead of the required eighteen inches, And for anybody, for
anybody from the utility coming in and say, oh, it
just happens, they go from eighteen inches up to four
inches over time.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
She sounds like a crock to me right now.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
So where the pair line came up through the planter
from that to go to the panel, it was a
two inches below grade where the lady was where she
had been planting plants. And it's just.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Nice, okay. So it's so cal edison. So you simply
say no, thank you. That's it, no thanks, And if
they take you to course, you find it. And based
on what you say or the way you describe it,
you're gonna win. The problem is as you are dealing
with you're dealing with the city which has unlimited resources.
(09:13):
But on the other hand, if you have insurance, if
you have negligence one insurance, you cover it. I mean,
it's hard to have a business that doesn't or successful business,
so you toss it to your insurance company.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
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Now, let me suggest that you do something about your breath.
Clearly I'm not with you, but I'm willing to bet
you wake up in the morning, of course you have
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and I have coffee breath, and then you eat the garlic,
the onions, the spices. So we simply have smelly bad
breath as a matter of course, it's natural. Now if
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you want to do something about it and have your
breath feel and smell fresh, and I mean for hours
and hours, the answer.
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And then when the mint part is gone, after you're
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Fork Report, who I work with every morning Monday through Friday,
(11:05):
on the morning show, he is broadcasting from the Wild
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Back we go more handle on the law marginal legal
advice where I tell you you have absolutely no case.
Let me get my icon going here on the computer,
there is an Hello Ann welcome.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Hi.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Do yes, ma'am.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
I have a judgment against my ex husband that I
thought during my divorce. The divorce was in La and
he is in Arizona. We moved, we had a home
in Arizona. Anyway, he got involved with the woman in
Arizona and got on her deed and tried to get
(12:16):
her or got her to sign a quick clean and
the judge has ordered the house sold. So my question
is do I already have an abstract filed on him
in Arizona? The case has been domesticated in Arizona. You've
done it all.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
You've done it all.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
No, No, the abstract is a lean and you've already
gotten a court order that says he has to turn
over the property. Oh no, that's easy now because it's
going through the system where if he fails to do that,
the court will simply order the county Recorder's office to
transfer the property, and they will do it even without
(12:59):
his permission, went to a court order. So you've done
everything and the house will be yours once the transfer
takes place.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
You can do whatever the hell you want. And if he
somehow puts a.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Lean against the house himself or throws a lis pendance
on which stops everything, it legally stops anything being done,
you sue him and you are going to get a judgment,
and it's going to be you know, if he doesn't
do what he's supposed to do, Eventually you go in
for contempt of court hearings and the judge will grant it,
(13:30):
and at some point two, three, four times later, the
judge tosses him in jail for contempt. Now obviously not
for a year or six months, but I've seen him
for a couple of weeks, and if he does it again,
he's even longer in prison. So you're doing everything and
that you can possibly do. There's no more advice that
(13:51):
I can give you at all.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
William name I can easily remember.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Hello William, Hey Bill, Hi, I need some more legal advice.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
We have a situation. My daughter took her dog to
a flight football game at my granddaughter's school, and the
dog was on a leash and harnessed the whole time.
After the game, there was an eighth grade boy that
ran up behind the dog with the ball. It was
almost on top of him. The dog was spooked and provoked.
He jumped up. The boy fell over. My daughter asked
(14:23):
the boy twice if he was okay. Both times he
said yes. He subsequently saw some blood, went to the
middle school principal and said he had been bitten by
a dog, and the nurse treated him, you know, just
band aid sort of treatment. They filed a school incident report.
The middle school principal said that she confirmed that he
was bitten by a dog. The dog has never had
(14:46):
a history of biting. The mom came and picked the
boy up, and she's a personal injury lawyer. She took
the school incident report, filed a police report based solely
on the statement by her son that he was bitten
by the dog. She didn't take her son to the
doctor until the following day. Subsequently, mom communicates only by email,
(15:08):
refuses to talk with us. Her son told other students
at the school that his mom was going to take
all my daughter's money. She finally filed acclaim for thirty
thousand dollars with my daughter's insurance company, claiming medical treatment,
including prescriptions continuing therapy. She and her traumatized son and
her traumatized family. They've had to limit travel and other activities.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Yeah, of course, that's your typical.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
All right, Let me communicate with the insurance.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Yeah, she doesn't have to, she doesn't have to call you.
She can do it via email. Matter of fact, she
doesn't have to talk to you at all. She can
file a lawsuit without every without ever even talking to you.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
So she's only communicated with the insurance company by email.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
So you so she's tarting in an insurance company, your
insurance company or her insurance company, my.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
Daughter's insurance company.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Okay, then you'll let.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Them handle it.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
You let them handle it. You're done, there's nothing more
to do.
Speaker 5 (16:04):
We have two witnesses. We have a witness and eighteen
year old Senidor who witnessed it and said that the
dog did not bite the boy.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Okay, I mean that's fine. So that's part.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
So you let the insurance company know. Here are two
witnesses that saw what didn't happen. Here are their names.
And you let the insurance company deal with with her.
And I'm surprised she didn't ask that, she didn't get
a doctor to say that the boy's leg has to
be removed because it was so severe and arterii were
(16:34):
in fact cut open or bit open, and the kid
bled out, And I'm surprised that the kid isn't dead
as a result of the dog bite. Let your insurance
company handle it, and they're.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Gonna do it quickly.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
The other witness was the.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
It doesn't matter, William, It doesn't matter. None of that matters,
none of it. Your insurance company is going to say.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
No.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
She can demand forty thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
The insurance company is gonna say, we'll deal with you,
will give you your medical the three hundred dollars or
the four hundred dollars, and that's all will give you.
And if she decides she's going to file a lawsuit
and go to court, you go to court, and your
insurance company pays for the attorney.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Yeah, she's not, of course not.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
She's gonna get.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
You know what she's gonna get.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
She's gonna get a couple, she's gonna get a couple
thousand dollars that's what she's gonna get, and it's your
insurance company, might right, and.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
And but then you fight your insurance company.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Then you fight your insurance company and say it was
a non incident, that it never happened. If they want
to pay, they want to pay all that, you don't care.
If they want to write a check for one hundred
thousand dollars. Uh, And you can establish that none of
that happens. That's not your problem, that's their problem.
Speaker 5 (17:50):
Okay, so fine, But she's telling out right lies, I mean.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Okay, so what of course she's okay, now what all right? No, No,
of course she's going to tell outright lies. Okay, Now
what your insurance company handles all of that?
Speaker 1 (18:07):
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This is handle on the law.
Speaker 6 (19:46):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
KFI handle Here it is a Saturday morning, last half
hour of a show.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
But he still continued with phone calls off the air.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
At the end of the show, and for the first
time in the two and a half hours been around,
we are light with phone calls. That's not to say
we don't have any, but we have more lines open
than we have through the entire show. So let me
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(20:22):
zero one five three four, eight hundred five to zero
one five three four.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
This is Handle on the Law. Welcome back Marginal Legal Advice.
Hello Heather, Hi Bill, Yes.
Speaker 7 (20:40):
Man, the question for you. So, my ex husband opened
accounts for all of our kids when you know, when
they're miners, they have to like have an adults on
the account. And my middle daughter, who is a genius
but is an idiot, never took her dad off of
her account, and last week the franchise Calvin Franchise Tax
(21:01):
Board attached and removed over eight thousand dollars from her
account because her dad owes money. I'm just wondering what
her like, what she can do. Can she go to
the franchise tax board? Can she do her dad like
she talked to the franchise tax board and they're like,
oh no, no, no, we'll stop it. We'll stop it,
(21:21):
and then they didn't and they took the money out right.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Yes, first of all, let me start with Mozeltov, which
is Hebrew for a congratulations, great deal. The problem is
is that he had a bank account. The fact that
someone else is also on the bank account doesn't really matter,
even if it's the reverse, and bank accounts are susceptible
(21:46):
to not only the irs, which doesn't go as far
as the Franchise Tax Board. Franchise Tax Board is probably
the most brutal taxing.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Agency that exists in the United States.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Do you know that there's no statute of limitations with
the Franchise Tax Board that if let's say you get
tagged with a Franchise Tax Board a tax situation or
a violation of some kind where you owe the Franchise
Tax Board.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Money, there's no statute.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
So let's say it happens in your twenties, and it
just builds and builds and builds, and by the time
you die in your eighties, if you have not dealt
with it, there isn't an There is not enough room
on your tombstone for the zeros that are going to happen.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
So it's it's going to be tough.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
It's one of those where you can make a claim
against the franchise tax board. But they're saying, hey, legally,
we have the right to go into an account that is,
oh that is owned by an individual when that individual
owns money, And I don't think it matters how and
where someone if someone else is on the account. Now,
(22:58):
there may be an exception to it. For example, in
with the world of the I R S. I think
a franchise tax board allows the innocent spouse if the
spouse doesn't know anything about it, then the spouse is
not held to penalties, et cetera. There may be something
similar to that. And I don't know the answer, but
(23:18):
you know, okay, So.
Speaker 7 (23:19):
Even if she could prove that like he has never Yeah, no,
I understand.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
No, Yeah, that's and that's part of it. Yeah, that's
part of it, proving that she was innocent. And but
she's an idiot, like you pointed out, and a genius
at the same time. I have one of those. Yes, yes,
I definitely have one of those. And uh, you just
shake your head and you go, come on, will you guys?
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Are you going to do that? Jane, Hello, Jane, welcome,
Oh hi Bell how are you go ahead?
Speaker 8 (23:53):
Okay, So we had a medical malpractice attorney.
Speaker 9 (23:59):
We had a family member die of hospital neglegs, and
we got an attorney and they we signed a retainer
and everything was fine.
Speaker 8 (24:12):
And then in April they said, oh, you know, because
a COVID it's a long, convoluted story, We're not going
to take case anymore.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Dumped us.
Speaker 8 (24:23):
We then found out that in March the statue of
limitations had run out for the medical malpractice.
Speaker 9 (24:34):
They didn't file an extension to it. I believe they
messed up, and this is why they dumped us.
Speaker 8 (24:41):
Have we got a because I I can't get another
medical malpractice?
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Well, here's the problem. You've got malpractice going on. Statue
was blown. That's an easy one. Or dumping you just
before the statute and not giving you when and saying
I'm not going to do it anymore. They do it
by letter and not telling you, Hey, the statute is
coming up, let's say two weeks from now, three weeks
(25:08):
from now, and please make sure you file before the statute.
If none of that happens, yes, you've got legal malpractice
all over the place. The problem is how valuable was
the underlying case, and it almost is. You have to
try the underlying case because what are your damages? There's
(25:29):
legal malpractice involved one hundred percent. Now you still have
to prove how badly you were hurt. And the only
way to prove how badly you were hurt your injury,
that is the malpractice and losing a loved one is
the case itself.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
And yeah, it's hard. Yeah, go ahead now on the sign.
Speaker 8 (25:52):
We've spoke to so many medical malpractice attorneys have all said,
if you come to us in January, would have tiped
can the caise, you would have won.
Speaker 9 (26:02):
But because his statue is wrong, I understand.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
He blew the statu No, they blew the statute. I
get it. And so there is legal metal practice. As
I said, it's on its face.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
I mean, you got screwed pretty badly because no one
is willing to take the underlying case because that has
to be established too.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
So how many attorneys have you gone to, Jane.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
Oh about ten?
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Yeah it's tough, Yeah, it is tough.
Speaker 7 (26:30):
So I need I need a good legal.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
No you do, you need an illegal malpractice attorney.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
And you have to just start looking.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Medical malpractice attorneys can't do anything because a statute is blown,
they can't file. There's there's nothing to file you past
the statute. So yeah, so you now have to start
looking for a legal malpractice attorney.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
And that's no funny.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
And you got you got screwed by the system, Jane, unfortunately,
And you're right, and the system screwed you. I mean,
it happens, and yeah, completely completely. So you lost who
did you lose?
Speaker 3 (27:13):
My daughter?
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Oh my god, that's terrible. That is terrible. How old
is she?
Speaker 4 (27:20):
She was in her early thirties.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
I've got two daughters who are thirty.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
I'm sorry, you know, I can't I can't even imagine
imagine which.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
You're Oh, yeah, there's parents. They are not supposed to
bury their children. I mean, it just doesn't. That doesn't
work that way, all right, Jane, Good luck? God, that's
really horrible.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
You know, usually I make fun of everybody, you know that, uh,
and I just rip into people. But occasionally I run
into where we run into a case like that. And
how do you make fun of a parent losing a child?
I mean I try, you know, I'm going through my
list of how I make a lot of people. Can't
(28:01):
do it on that one, you know, all you can
do is it's commiserate and it's it's just heartbreaking, it's
heart wrenching, any any way you describe it. This is
Handle on the LAWFI. Handle here on a Saturday morning,
and this is the last segment of the show. And
the quip reminder that when I lock out and I
(28:24):
say goodbye at the end of the show, you can
still stay on if you're on hold, because I'm going
to continue taking phone calls, answer answering all the legal
questions that come in until well we run out of questions.
That usually goes thirty five to forty minutes into the
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(28:47):
while you're waiting. It's so that's a great show. So
it's it's a win win. The number is eight hundred
five two zero one five three four. Continuing on eight
hundred five to zero one five three four. Welcome back,
Handle on the Law Marginal Legal Advice.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Hello Rick, Welcome.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
Hello Bill.
Speaker 6 (29:13):
Yeah, fan of the show, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Sure.
Speaker 6 (29:16):
A couple of years ago, my mother, myself and my
wife we owned a property together joint common tenant my
mother decided she wanted to move out. She moved in
with my brother, who I'm estranged with, and a couple
of weeks later we got a letter from a lawyer
for basically forcing us to sell the home or buy
(29:38):
her out, which was difficult for us at the time,
so we had we had to borrow some money, take
out a second and we bought her out for about
two hundred and forty five thousand dollars. She she recently
passed away, God rest her soul in April. My brother
was power of attorney.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Again.
Speaker 6 (29:57):
We're estranged. But I don't know if there was a will.
I don't know what happened to that money I had heard.
It doesn't matter that my brother.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Yeah, but I think about it doesn't matter. I don't
know what recourse for what? What do you want?
Speaker 6 (30:15):
Well, I want to know if you know I didn't
get to see the will. I don't know if I
was written out of the will, if there were funds,
if he and his wife, what is money or what does.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
That have to do with you buying her out of
the property or are you making that mutually exclusive when
has nothing to do with the other.
Speaker 6 (30:33):
Well, I'm just getting some background. So I know that
she Okay, I know that she had resources.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Okay, got it.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
And you want to know, fair enough, and you want
to know if you were left any money basically, right, okay,
fair enough there is And if a will.
Speaker 6 (30:50):
Well, I don't know. My brother hasn't communicated. He just
you know, okay, he wouldn't even now you can find out.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Okay, enough, right, he got it?
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Easy enough to find out if there was a will,
because that's a public document and it's the usually the
county in which she died, and you just look it up.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
You can look it up on the internet, n ray
the estate of and.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Your mother's name, and then you'll see a will because
it's public. Yeah, it's public document, it's file with the court.
And so if it's a trust, it's a different animal.
And so here you are as a putative beneficiary. That
means it was your mom, You were close, you should
have sort of kind of been a beneficiary, and you're
(31:34):
not because your brother.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
I mean, all the circumstances you talk about.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
What I would do is, since we're talking about substantial
money here, what I would do is go to a
trust and a state lawyer, and the trust and a
state lawyer knows how to jump into these things, and
it could be at least you should find out if
your mom didn't leave you anything which is her call,
or did leave you some thing and the executor was
(32:01):
your brother who screwed you out of money. In that case,
you've got a champion lawsuit and that's the trust and
estate lawyers will hire a private investigators and do the research.
So you want to trust in a state lawyer to
figure all this out. It's that simple. The rest of
it I can't help you with, nor should I.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Let me see what else has been there for a while.
Speaker 10 (32:24):
Mark, Hi Mark, Yeah, Hi Bill. I'm not overly sophisticated
financially wise, and I do the basics. But i have
a developer that's interested in a piece of property that
I've held for quite some time, and it's a pretty
decent offer, and I'm just kind of wondering, do I
(32:46):
need to get like an accountant or a real estate
attorney or yeah?
Speaker 2 (32:51):
No, No, it's real simple.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
You first of all, if it's a decent offer and
it's on the table, maybe you get a real estate
broker that will represent you through this or an agent,
but you negotiate and say all I want you to do.
None of this six percent or five percent crap. What
I want you to do is to help me with this.
(33:16):
You can also go to a real estate attorney and
say how much what will it take for you to
look at this? And you show them the offer and
say what will it take for you to look at
this and make sure that all the teaser connected and
the eyes are dotted, that all the dots are connected connected.
And it shouldn't be very it shouldn't be very much
(33:37):
money to do that. How much money is the peace
of property?
Speaker 2 (33:41):
What's that worth?
Speaker 10 (33:42):
Well, it's it's it's more than five million.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
And oh jeez, yes, yes, you absolutely hire a real
estate attorney.
Speaker 10 (33:54):
Earlier I had was on capital gains. There's going to
be Unfortunately, there's going to be some capital gains. I
have to talk to an accountant about yes, yes, attorney
about that.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
No, no, no, you don't need a tax attorney at tax
attorneys when you go into litigation with the government, you
just need a decent account an accountant. That's it, because
you're going to pay the capital gains and hopefully you're
going to get some expenses against the capital gains and
you just need it, you know, I have.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
No, I'm not going to give you the name of
my accountant.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Uh yeah, because he's not buying commercial he's not buying
commercials from me, and he charges me full tilt, so
that's not gonna happen.
Speaker 10 (34:32):
But it's a primary residences.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Yeah, no, I understand.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
No, you need Definitely you want to talk to a
real estate attorney and buy a little bit of time
to look at the offer. And definitely an accountant, uh
you know on on that kind of a taxable base.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
Wow, you know, five million dollars. I mean, who would
even call me on that?
Speaker 1 (34:51):
I wouldn't call myself on that, and I've done real
estate deals.
Speaker 11 (34:59):
Mark hell Mark, welcome, Hello, Eric, thank you for taking
my call.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
Sure.
Speaker 11 (35:06):
My wife and I were at a fancy local establishment
about two weeks ago. She has a condition called PLS,
which is a primary lateral sclerosis similar to ALS. It
makes her have slurred speech and her gait is effected,
her balance is affected, looks like it looks like she
(35:29):
could be drunk sometimes, but it's all a physical thing.
We went into the establishment to have a nice quiet evening.
She ordered one drink and we went to order another drink,
and the bartender decided she had had too much to
drink and she she cut her off. And stress and
(35:52):
anxiety just takes over when my when with this condition.
So at that point, my wife's conditions, you know, immediately
got worse. And we tried to explain to the bartender
what was going on. She had no empathy for that
at all and said, well, you're cut off, and okay.
(36:13):
Essentially it sent my wife into a you know, into
a depression. I mean, it takes me forever to try
to get her outside, and so Erne just wondering if
we have any kind of any kind.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Yeah, that's an interesting case because normally, normally if you
were to call and say, she cut us off, she
threw us oude of the place, she treated us badly,
She verbally abused me.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
I'd go great, go to another place. Leave me alone.
Right now.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
The fact that your wife has this kind of disability,
there may be a violation under the ADA and the
American Disabilities Act. That could be the case. And those
actually are worth something? Are they worth a fortune?
Speaker 2 (36:54):
They are not. Is she going to get two and
a half million dollars? She is not. But there's certainly
a several thousand dollars involved.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
In this one, and it's worth calling any attorney that
deals with the idea. There are attorneys that deal with
America disabilities out and they're specialists. So you get find
one of those off and those out. And it's a
good question, by the.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Way, because normally the the ADA stuff is kind of crappy.
This one.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
Now here's a legitimate disease. There's a legitimate syndrome. Huh Okay.
Before we bail out of here, I want to tell
you about the game Bank Game Bank Game Pain game podcast.
Easy for me to say, and you talk about disabilities.
My wife has a disability. It's called complex regional pain
syndrome where she is in pain twenty four hours a day.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
It's chronic.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
It's chronic pain, and for me to deal with it
is very difficult because I'm hopeless, helpless actually, you know,
I walk around. I just see her in pain, and
it's hard for friends and loved ones to deal with it.
If you happen to be living in chronic pain, or
know someone who is, or is treating someone who is,
or you have a loved one who is dealing with
(38:09):
chronic pain, and the trauma associated. Let me suggest her podcast.
She started this podcast as a way to help herself
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Speaker 2 (38:16):
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Speaker 1 (38:19):
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every episode ends with a message of hope. And here's
a weird one that took me for a loop. You'll understand.
The show is about giving pain purpose as counterintu counterintub
it god easy for me to say, is counterintuitive as
that means or sounds. It really does work, and it's
(38:43):
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Speaker 2 (39:00):
And before we leave, I am.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
Still taking phone calls as soon as I lock out
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And the number is eight hundred five two zero one
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(39:24):
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