(04/22) HOTL Hour 2

Handel on the Law, Marginal Legal Advice.

Episode Transcript

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This is handle on the law,marginal legal advice where I tell you you
have absolutely no case, and Irevel in telling you you have no case.
To the point is when I tellyou you do have a case,
depression sinks in very, very quickly. Okay, oh, I love these
stories. This one I have toshare with you. And this is a

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guy who clearly was leaving immensa meetingwhen he was arrested. His name is
Josiah Garcia and he is a NationalGuardsman. Okay, there you go,
and let me give you the backstory, because let me tell you what an

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idiot he is. I mean,this reaches wonderful levels of idiocy and entertainment.
All right. There was a sitecalled rent a Hitman dot com.
May still be around for all Iknow. It was originally started in two
thousand and five to sort of advertisea cyber security company. Is sort of
just a spoof and never took off, but it received so many inquiries over

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the years because they left it thereand it was sort of dead, but
they received so many inquiries over theyear over the years that it turned into
a parody site with fake testimonials,so a straight parody. And there was
an intake form to request services andan application form to become a hired killer.

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Now comes Josiah Garcia who applies tobe a hitman, and he sends
in an application and follow up emailsover the next thirty days. In one
of them, he adds a sectionwhich wasn't on there saying why would I
want this job? And he writesin looking for a job that pays well

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related to my military experience and killingthe mark target I can support my kid
on the way. What could Isay? I enjoying doing what I do
and so if I find a jobsimilar to it such as this one,
put me in coach. And soan undercover agent comes on and, claiming

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to be a field coordinator for thecompany of the website rent a Hitman dot
Com, reaches out to him andthen they start, of course negotiating and
talking and the price, and needlessto say, they go out and arrest
him. So here's my question,and that is, if you see a

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website that says rent a Hitman dotcom, would you at least question it
as to what it is and whatit does. So I happened to like
this guy a lot. This isone of my favorite arrest stees. Definitely
a finalist in the Darwin Awards thatI hand out every year, because this

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is the gene Pool issue, andhe can't be a winner because he didn't
die. You have to actually dieto be a No, he's not even
a finalist because a finalist get horriblymaimed. They get hurt very badly in
doing their idiocy. This is anhonorable mention because all he did was get

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arrested rent a hitman dot Com.Good for him. All right, let's
definitely take some phone calls, Charles. Let's start with you. Welcome to
handle on the law. Okay,I clearly know that I was abused by

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my older brothers. Let's just startwith that. Can I, you know,
take this kind of court. Imean, after my dad died and
all that, we'll drop that issue. But it's just yeah, no,
I understand. What do I understandby the way that your story is unfortunately,
way way too common. Uh,and there are people that are very

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damaged out there. Uh. Sexualabuse by family members, either close family
members or uncle's farther on. Imean this happens all the time. To
the point, No, no,no, it wasn't sexual abuse. Oh
what kind of abuse. Okay,I mean it was mom, stop hitting
I have a A rock was thrownup my head. Yeah, Charles,

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now no, no, no,no, put in the back. Hold
on. I was put in theback of a truck with us with no
tamp or shell or anything for elevenhundred miles. That that that is plain
neglect. Yeah, well it's morethan neglact. I mean it's it's more
than neglect. But it's uh yeah, let me ask you this. How

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do you prove it? How doyou how do you prove it? Are
you kidding me? No, I'mnot. How do you How do you
prove it? I got so sickafter that? How do you prove it?
How do you prove it? Outof the truck? I asked him
to put me in a bus.How do you prove it? You're not
answering my question. How do youprove it? It's not a matter of

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proof, you can't. Yes,it is. Oh, it is absolutely
a matter of proof. And thereason is when you talk about sexual abuse,
there is more than just a statement. It's uh. They come in
with a lot of psychological or psychiatricevidence. As dealing in therapy for a

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very long time, and the therapistahead, there's there's a lot. What's
your proof? I got plenty,what can What's your proof? What's your
proof? What's your proof? You'renot answering the question. Lots of issues.
What is your proof? What isyour proof? No? Hearing in

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your voice does not cut it asproof. What is your proof? Charge?
Last time? Well, there was. I've had many relationship issues over
the over the years. But Imean I've been trauma now now now that
doesn't work. That doesn't work.What's your proof I've had relationship issues.

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You can hear it in my voice? I mean no, I mean that's
not to say it didn't happen.By the way, I'm not doubting that
it didn't happen. Unfortunately, youhave to have some kind of proof.
You can't just say it. Andwith sexual abuse that actually is considered far
more serious. Uh, And thatthe Statute of Limitations was opened to enable

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people to sue. Why because whenit comes to sexual abuse, and it
maybe in this case, but sexualabuse has looked at differently. Uh.
The everybody now recognizes that you canjust bring those feelings memories and just bury
them and they come out years andyears later. Mark. Hello, Mark,

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welcome, Hey, Bill, Yeah, go ahead, you there now,
I'm here. Yeah, okay,I was. It's true. Hey,
I got a couple of question.This might morph into two questions,
but I'll try to get right toit. I'm a homeowner. I live
on a corner of an intersection.There was an accident. My wall is
damaged that they did, you know, one card Tebow and the other.

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So I wasn't driving anything, Andwhat happened was I got all the infant
and I have it on videotape becauseI have high deft cameras on my house
with the hording was on videotape.I have the intersection right there, so
that's all done. So I,you know, didn't I call the ladies
insurance company that went into my yard, although she wasn't the one at fault,

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because I had her information and Italked to the guy and he's is,
oh, I don't want to namethe insurance companies. The other company
who happened to be a commercial van, he said, they already called us
an admitted liability. Okay, soa liability has been admitted. It was,
you know, not the lady thatwent in my yard, but the
commercial van that hit her. Sothen I go, well, okay,

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So then I called He told methe name of their insurance company. So
I called her the claims adjust herand I said, yeah, what are
you days going to come out andfix my wall? You know? And
she goes, well, we haveto determine liability. And I said,
well, I have it on videotape, there's a police report and all the
drivers had been aed liability when theywere all at my house after the accident.

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We mean you have to do Yeah, I get that. So it
could be a million reasons my chanical, So like okay. So she mails
me a letter saying that they're doingan investigation the same day. It's dated
the same day that she called theother person's insurance company and admitted liability.
So unless she didn't take it outof the outbox after she made that call,

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okay, so you got to makethis a little quicker the depth.
Oh I'm sorry, my question isSo then I call her up thirty days
later. I'd waited for thirty daysago, by go up. Did you
finish your investigation a month later?Oh? No, we didn't. Um,
I just got the case from somebodyelse. And I said, well,
aren't you Lynn, the one whomelody the levered the same day.

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But okay, I'll just try toget to it. So when are you
going to come fix my wall nowthat you've been bit in viability? Because
you know, she goes, Iwant to inform me we have admitted liability,
and I said, great, canyou tell me when we can't tell
you that? Okay, okay,hang on. First of all, they're
not going to fix your wall.You fix your wall, Okay. They

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only have a responsibility to pay you. There's nothing in the polity says we
will fix your wall, we willbuy you a new tree, we will
go up and fix your roof.So, uh, if they've admitted liability
on paper, which is really important, then you simply send them an email
saying you've got ten days to uh. You know, here are the bids

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I've gotten. You have to havethose bids and which and which one do
you want to accept? Or here'sthe middle bid that I'm taking, not
the most expensive. And if theydon't pay for it, what you do
is simply turn it over to yourhomeowner's policy. Because it was your wall.
You will get money and then it'stheir problem to collect it from the

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other insurance company. That's the wayit works. Yeah, that's I'll say.
That's another thing I'll throw up.She tried to make me take it
to my homeowners. Yeah, wellthen say, okay, if you have
to, that works out fine too. You take it to your homeowners because
it's not gonna ding you. It'snot gonna go against you. It's not
going to go against you because it'stheir fault. You'll be okay on this.

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And on top of that, theonly thing is the comprehensive. But
they'll collect. You'll collect the comprehensionfrom there. But you know, you're
just looking at people that pay forin You're fine, you know, just
do that. Go to your yourown insurance coming say that he won't even
pay me. All right, That'swhy I gott invented insurance companies. Hello,
William, you're up. Welcome?Hello, how are you? Yes?

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Or what can I do for you? Yes? All right? You
know the wait, wait, wait, wait, the line isn't so wonderful,
So move someplace because it's sort ofcutting in and out. Let's try
it again, king on webste Okay, that seems pretty good right there.
Yeah, yeah, let's try thatnow, all right, Okay, So

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I went to a U. Iwent to a urologist. I was referred
to the urologists by my primary careposition. So I go to the urologist
and he has like an intake formin the first year, in the first
appointment or whatever. So I meetwith the physician's assistant. So a long
story short, Um, they recommendthat I get a procedure. Okay,
So I get the procedure which issupposed to streak the prostate or whatever.

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But the doctor did not actually dothe procedure himself. The physician's assistant ended
up doing the procedure. WHOA,Yeah, I gotta let me ask you
a question. I'm going to cutyou off right there because there's a couple
of issues there. Uh, whatexactly was the procedure? Well, and
this has and this, by theway, this is legitimate. It's not
just me beering curious about what happenedto your foot package, although I have

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to tell you I am curious asto what happened to your food package.
But it's important to the answer becauseyou'll see where I'm going with this.
What exactly, Okay, what didthey do? It was a prostate issue?
Yeah, the procedure is, um, they take a camera or whatever
they take Okay, they insert it, they insert it through you know,

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the earth. Yeah, they insertedto urethra, which, by the way,
it happens to be one of myfavorite singers, Euretha Franklin. She
was fantastic. I know, Ijust joke after joke after joke, okay.
And they do that okay, wherethey heat it, app um,
and that the heat it's supposed toshrink the prostate a bit. So for
seven to ten days. App afterwards, you gotta weird, you know,

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you gotta wear taffeter and see intoa bag and where. Yeah, no,
it's it's you know, it's afairly big procedure. Okay. So
the physician's assistant did that. Didyou know the physician's assistant was going to
do that? Did you know thatthat person was you know, I mean
I got referred to, you know, Actually, no, I understand.
I mean obviously a physician's assistant doesn'twork on his or her own usually.

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I mean, I don't know.I think the law they're pushing changed the
law. But you're in a doctor'soffice. I mean, the physician's assistant
usually is under the supervision of adoctor. So I'm going if you were
referred to a doctor and the physician'sassistant. Okay, it's the doctor who's
overseeing it, So he's the doctor. I assume it's a heat right,
right, Okay, most of yourologistes so okay. So during the procedure,

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the physician's assistant was in the room, the nurse was in the assistant.
It was in the room. Butthe doctor was not the doctor that
I met with. So who didthe actual procedure the physician's assistant. Okay,
So now did anything go wrong withyou? Yes? I got a
terrible, terrible infection, and um, okay, it is the prognosis okay,

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is the prognosis long term? Um? That I don't know because I
put him, I put him toget I put him to my insurance company
to go and get a second Youknow, you have to you have to
go to another doctor. You've gotto go to another doctor. And there's
there's a couple of issues here,which is why I asked you, h

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exactly what procedure we start with,just straight out of medical malpractice, and
that is uh, was the procedurenegligently done? Yes? No, you
have to go to another doctor says, uh, yeah, it was negligently
done. I'm guessing there's no permanentdamage. Uh. That is a pain
in the pain in the prostate.Uh. And there therefore the damages are

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fairly minimal. No doctor is goingto no lawyer's gonna take it unless the
damages are really good, good stuff, which means permanent damage done to your
prostate, which means you're going toneed a diaper for the rest of your
life, or something that's serious you'llnever sustain in erection. I mean,
they are all kinds of issues,and if you don't have those, it's

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the damages aren't that big. Andthen the other issue is the reason I
asked, is the procedure that wasdone to you may only be done possibly
only be done by a physician thata PA is not allowed to do that.
A PA is not allowed, forexample, to cut into you,
perform surgery. A PA can't prescribeheavy duty medication, can antibiotics, etc.

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But can't do a lot of stuff. And it sounds like what happened
to you the PA overstepped what hecould do medically. They simply not allowed
to do that. Basically, practicinglicense practicing medicine without a license, especially
since the doctor wasn't in the room. So a couple of issues you have,

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Yes, you have them nailed.It looks like on those both issues
possible negligence and the PA doing it. And but you may not have enough
damage. See, if you reallywant to give him some grief, you
turn them into the medical board andhave them deal with it. If yeah,
and that's it. You and evenNeil Sabatra were talking about an Italian

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restaurant called Rya or Ya or something. Yeah. Yeah, Neil is by
the way, Neil is the foodguy here at the station, at our
local station. Yeah, I don'tknow. Play Yeah, I don't either.
So you know what, Email thestation. Email Neil, you know,
and you can find it out andhe'll tell you. I have no
idea. All right. Yeah,that wasn't bad. Actually I got pretty

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good advice on that one, andI couldn't give them the important advice.
And that is the name of therestaurant, uh that our food guy,
Neil was a good friend of mine. Does Now, if you own a
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the qualify me button and answer thosequestions. Get ref funds dot Com.
Hi, Timothy, welcome to handleon the law Blue So quick question and
I'm nutshell. I took a jobabout four months ago with an employer that
that talked about a sign on bonus. So five thousand dollars payout in three

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increments. The first payment came threefine when a team times to the second
payment, but fifteen hundred dollars itnever rived. So I called them and
you asked what the deal was.They said that I didn't qualify for whatever
the reason they In fact, theyreally did give reason. They just said
I didn't qualify. So if aunion job, I took the issue to

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the union, the union wouldn't hearit because it was outside the purview of
the contract because it was a bonus. And technically, yeah, so my
question is this, can I bringa claim against the employer for that that
money? And then the question yougo ahead. I'm sorry, but no.

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I was just gonna say that theunion did advise them that if they
were going to offer a bonus,you know, like what I'm talking about,
that they ought to put it inwriting at least exactly. And that
was where I was going to gowith this, Timothy, here you are.
You get a five thousand dollars bonus. They paid you the first but
now they're not paying you the nextfifteen hundred dollars. None of it was

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in writing. I'm assuming is thatright? Exactly? So how do you
prove it? You know, whynot? Why not say a twenty thousand
dollar bonus? Because it's they inthe post we responded to to get the
job, they talked about the bonus. Doesn't matter. They can talk about

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the bonus. But how do youprove that? What was you know it
says hey, sign on bonus fivethousand dollars. Where does this say that
in the job advertisement? Okay?That is now you have some kind of
proof and so you signed up.We're offering a five thousand dollars bonus,

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and then you signed up and they'renot paying you, so at least okay,
then you know when I asked,how do you prove that isn't writing,
Well, you have an ad thatyou can prove if you do this,
we'll give you five thousand dollars.And you did it. You accepted
the terms of what I would argueis a contract. Now, okay,

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you of course you have a copyof that advertisement. Sure, all right,
it's still up. Oh all right. So if you have a copy
of the advertisement, then uh yeah, I'm thinking you take them to the
labor board. You go to theCalifornia Department of Industrial Relations, or you
just go straight through small class.That brings me to that brings me the

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second part of my question. Thecompany is in Wisconsin, so the headquarters
the company that I actually did businesswith, This isn't the story. And
I live in Ohio. Oh thatgets interesting. Yeah, and they don't
have an office in Ohio of anykind. Oh yeah, all right,

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So you have your case. Theproblem is it's interstate and you're it depends
on where you live. For example, California, you have the right to
sue where the contract takes place,where the company is, or where you
do the work. So California iswide open. I don't know about the

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other states. And also what Itell people, For fifteen hundred bucks,
are you prepared to go there andargue? Now, some jurisdictions allowed you
to do it by affidavid, whichmeans you don't even have to show up.
You just send in the proof.And I don't know where they would
go if you send in the proofand go, well, here's the ad,

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here's the money that was paid.They didn't pay me the rest,
and then a judge would say tothem, well, you say you did
or don't owe it? Do youhave any proof of either paying them?
And you're if your argument is youdon't owe it. He doesn't qualify on
what basis because Timothy accepted the job. He accepted the job, and there's

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the ad and you haven't paid him. So they did what they did what
the union said, they put itin writing. Okay, So they sent
me a copy and says, allright, we put it in writing and
according to our new policy that youwouldn't have qualified retro actively, so to
speak. So I mean, there'sno there's no issue as to whether there's

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a bonus. They just now it'sin writing and you didn't qualify it.
Do you got him? You gothim? Okay, you have it right
there, Timothy. The problem isthey're in another state. You're in a
state, and it's a small claimsmatter. I mean, you can do
it yourself, but it's out ofstate. What you do is get a
little research that. Yeah, youcan do a little bit of research and

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just ask that question. You know, small claims court, Where do I
bring it? Jurisdictional? Uh?You know who has jurisdiction U? And
who you know? Can you doit by affidavit? Otherwise you have to
show up. So you have acase, but you're the only with three
different states and you have to findout what you can do is I said,
California, you have a little bitmore leeway. I don't know about

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Missouri. And what's the other state? Well, Wisconsin, Wisconsin in Missouri,
it never been I have no idea. Actually I have been to Wisconsin.
Uh yeah, I went to awent to a Green Bay game.
I've been to two of them inWisconsin and Packers game and man, it

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was so cold. I went inDecember. I couldn't believe that anybody would
go there. Jeez. And thenthey have aluminum seats, right, it's
uh, they might as well puta refrigeration unit under your butt. It
was that cold. I mean crazycrazy al Hi All, welcome to handle
on the Law. Hey, goodmorning Bill. Easter Sunday, my adult

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daughter and son in law. Itook my dog for a walk, went
around the corner and the dog wasabout ten feet off the sidewalk. Came
up to U one of the neighbor'sgates. Brought iron gate with cuncreede briadway
and there's a dog that lives backthere. He went up there, barked
at it. The other dog barked, reached under, put his head underneath

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the gate, grabbed my dog's legand bit the heck out of it off.
Yeah. How much? The firstquestion, first question I have on
that is, uh, I'm assumingyou went to the vat right, Yeah,
yeah, okay, okay? Howmuch that cost you or will cost
you? We got about forty fivebucks in it now. Plus the dog

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bit my son's hand, southern law'shand when he was trying to get him
to let the dog go. Letmy dog go bit his hand. It
was outside defense, but it wason the neighbor's property, right on the
neighbor's property. Yeah, how muchdamage? How much damage to your son's
hand? It's you know, it'sprobably I don't know how many how many

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bills he's got now, but um, the neighbor, the owner of the
property, had video right there,and we called, well, we knocked
on his door, left the messagewith his doorbell, doorbell ring, and
didn't get back to us for threedays. We made a report with the
with the County Dog Collection, andthe guy finally got back in touch with

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us and and said he was tryingto follow a claim with his insurance as
insurance said no, we're not goingto cover it, and we haven't heard
back from him. All right,well you gotta eat game, which you
have a you have a small claimscase. Now, I you know,
I don't know which way it goesbecause dogs are responsible for biting other people.

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And he went under a fence.So the argument you're gonna have is
effectively the fence didn't keep the dogout, and he's gonna say, you
went on my property with your dog. So everybody has a case here.
But for forty five hundred dollars,man, you know, there isn't a
dog in the world that's worth fortyfive hundred dollars. For God's sake,

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you know, you go get anotherdog. I mean, there are two
hundred bucks at a shelter. Oneother thing what he did is that after
we've contacted him and there he puta board. He put a board up
that showed that kept his dog fromYeah. That unfortunately, let me tell

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you something, law does not allowyou to even bring that up. Fixing
a problem after the case. Thatdoesn't do anything. It's what happened at
that time. Was it negligence onhis part? Now you can if it's
small claims court. Of course youbring that up because all the rules of

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law are thrown out. So youknow, you go to small claims court
and here's the argument. Hey,the guy that dog went underneath the offense,
so clearly the offense didn't do it. So therefore you have an unleashed
dog that attacked my dog. Here'sforty five hundred bucks and whatever. Vet
and uh, you know, maybeif your son has a scar, permanent

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scar, you know there's an issuethere and he's going to say, hey,
my property, that al had nobusiness letting his dog on my property.
So it's going to be up tothe judge. And if I were
the judge. If I were thejudge, I would say, Al,
get another dog. They're cheap.Hello John Europe, Hey, good morning,

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Bill. Insurance question for you.Twenty year old step granddaughter living with
me and grandma in our home.She is driving a car that is owned
and registered to her daddy, stepson. We want to do the right

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thing, law abiding citizens that weare. We put the car on our
insurance. But because she's twenty,she hasn't had a long driving history,
we get minimum liability. So she'sgot her car on our umbrella. Policy.
That's not really an umbrella so tospeak, as our homeowners and the
two other cars. Now, ifif step granddaughter decides she's going to load

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her car up with her partying buddiesand at three in the morning she broils
into Lamborthini fills the driver. Thedriver is the son of a rich lawyer.
What is my liability? Oh,that's a good question, and uh
yeah, what are the chances ofthat happening? What are your limits on
your insurance? My limits? It'sa million dollars policy. Okay, what

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are but the car? But thecar itself has a minimum liability, right,
the car itself has a minimum liabilityissues. Yeah, but it doesn't
have a minimum liability because you havean umbrella umbrella policy on top of that
that covers the Lamborghini and the deaddriver. U. So you're responsible and
it's people think that you're only responsibleup to the minimum fifteen thirty fifteen thousand

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dollars single occurrence thirty thousand uh multipleuh plaintiffs. And it's hilarious that hasn't
changed in forty years or fifty years. I mean, it's just it's just
crazy. But no, it's uh, it would be up against your insurance
policy. It would the umbrella policythat covers everything over that, and I
got news you're responsible for anything overthat if the damages are high enough.

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So under your circumstances, Lamborghini,it's three hundred thousand dollars death of the
Sun, Well, it's negligence.Uh and uh yeah, And then you
talk about what's the value of thedeath of the sun, And there's all
kinds of plaintiffs on that one wrongfuldeath. So the bottom line is you're

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going bankrupt really quickly and everything youown is completely gone. So uh yeah.
But you know, you know,who ever gets into an accident with
a million dollars a million dollars umbrella. I used to have five million dollars
of umbrella and I was looking.I was paying ridiculous amounts of money for
that. I went, okay,I don't need that. I mean,

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he's gonna assume me for five milliondollars. Then I brought it down to
three million dollars. I go,you know, three million dollars. I
mean, people don't settle for threemillion dollars and go to court. I
mean, you have to have someif you have injuries that bad badly.
They're settling the case unless you havea lawyer that's willing to go to trial

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on the other side. So Ibrought mine down. Uh, you're fine,
but the answer is dead driver Lamborghininineteen year old kid. Yeah,
you've got some issues, so getlots of umbrella policy, which you've done,
and I think you're okay, Andthen I wouldn't talk to her again
for sure. Tony, Hello,Tony welcome. All right, Yeah,

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Tony, you want to get offthat that speaker phone? You really do?
Yeah, well I've been okay,Yeah, no, you've been waiting.
I get it. I get it. So that's not a problem,
all right, go ahead. Thendivorces twenty eighteen and the divorce decree.
My ex wife is living in ourhouse. The divorce decree is telling me,

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and I agree to it to payhalf of the mortgage until she moves
out or until she buys me out. There was no end and that's my
fault. So now fast forward threeyears later. She wants to do upgrades
to the house, so she putor she has roommates in the house.
Now each came a thousand dollars perroom, and I'm not seeing any of

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that money. Okay, who ownsthe house? Tony, who owns the
house? We do both of youtogether? Okay? Yeah? And your
question. My question, My questionis do I rate half of the rent?
I would think so too. Andtwo should I still be paying half?
I know the divorce decrease says topay half of the mortgage, so

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I want to know I should I. Yeah, Tony, you have to
pay half the mortgage. Okay,let's make that easy, all right.
Now. On the other hand,if you own That's why I asked,
if you own the house with herand it is silent as to what ends
up happening with that house, ifyou own half of it, then what

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she's doing is she's doing it onboth of your behalf. And if the
policy, if the court order doesn'tsay anything, you go, yeah,
you you own an asset that ismaking money. I own half of that
asset. I'd like to see mymoney, So I think you are entitled

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to half of it, half ofthe rental. Now, of course she's
gonna lie about how much she's getting, but then you know, yeah,
you go back into court because youcan do that, open it up and
just sue her for misrepresentation. Sueher for taking assets out and you tell
the judge, hey, here's what'sgoing on. But the quick answer to

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your question is, yeah, Ithink I believe that you are entitled to
half the money. And on theother hand, let's say she upgrades the
house and sues you for half themoney. I don't think you have to
pay because there's nothing mandatory. Iknow you go, no, I'm not
interested in pain. You're the onethat's choosing to upgrade the house, not

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me. Yeah, but you getthe benefit of upgrading the house, so
when the house sells, you getfifty percent. Now, going beyond that,
she could theoretically sue you for thecost of the upgrade under a different
area of the law, a noncontract area of the law. Basically,
it's content it would be unjustin Richmondthat but don't even pay attention to that.

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The bottom line is, yeah,I want my rent money, and
yes, you have to continue payinghalf the mortgage. So there is there's
your answer. Hopefully is the divorceamicable or do you just hate each other?
Yeah? Yeah, we're actually talkingagain. Oh good good? Yeah,
after you well, that's your issue, that's another issue. But you're

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talking again, and if you bringit up and went half the money,
maybe you won't be talking again.But that is that's your issue with the
divorce. Most divorces are not particularlyamicable. This is handle on the law wh