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    Dealing with debt collection for medical bills

    You left out the key word "months". :)
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    How do you legally stop or at least stall a tax sale without paying the tax?

    Once the sale is scheduled, all the tax collector wants to see is money. There typically isn't anything that you can do to stop or forestall the sale other than paying the taxes and related fees to the tax collector or filing for bankruptcy, and even bankruptcy might not buy you a whole lot of...
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    Refund Status

    Did you electronically file the return or mail it? And how long ago did you mail it? And what specific amount is it asking you to enter? Adjusted gross income (AGI), or the refund amount you claimed? If you made some kind of error on the return, that could create problems in the system being...
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    Novel Legal issue?

    Nothing wrong with that. And if the owner does the minimal amount of work to keep others from making continual use of the property, that owner is entitled to let it sit and sell it for that anticipated profit years later. The mistake is not keeping an eye on the investment, same mistake as never...
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    Novel Legal issue?

    When you make a sizeable investment, isn't the prudent thing to do to find out everything you need to do to safeguard that investment? I think so, and that comes not from my attorney background but from my business background. If you are a business person or investor, and you don't know all the...
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    Novel Legal issue?

    The principles of adverse possession and prescriptive easements our not outdated. They serve the same purpose as they have for centuries: to ensure that land is being put to some kind of productive use. Every absentee owner should know about the law on adverse poessession and prescriptive...
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    Novel Legal issue?

    It's not actually all that novel. These are the sorts of issues that come up often in prescriptive easements and adverse possession cases. For A, the main issue will be whether he/she as the evidence to defend against ejectment from the property should the record owner pursue it. A really needs...
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    Speed trap question

    Although southern small towns have the more notorious reputations for it, small town police anywhere might set that up, though my initial reaction is I wouldn't have put NY high on that list. I do know NYC is agressive in going after parking ticket violators though. I got a parking ticket in NY...
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    Speed trap question

    By the way, Amo, I used to live in Nebraska many years ago and it was common then for cops to sit where drivers couldn't see them, and your post tells me that that practice has not changed. It was legal then and appears to be legal now. The cop hiding from traffic to catch people who are truly...
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    Speed trap question

    Mine not the literal explanation of the CA, but the requirement for the engineering study involves determining what changes in speed can be made safely, and jurisdictions intending to set up a money making speed trap will set it up so that it's not possible to slow down in time, thus...
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    Speed trap question

    Where the officer pulled you over is irrelevant to the speeding issue. It has nothing to do with the charge you face, and you admit you were speeding. Peeved though you may be, if you make this argument in court it's not going to go anywhere. I don't know any state that prohibits officers from...
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    Should I do a 1031 Exchange here?

    I agree, but your explanation of why isn't technically correct. The error I see is that you are subtracting the standard deduction from the tax owed, which is not the way it's done. I suspect you know that and were just hasty in your replay. But for others reading this thread that is an...
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    DUI from another state

    Most states, including CA, participate in the federal government's program that enables states to exchange actions taken on a driver with other states. So if you get a speeding ticket in Oregon and you have CA license, you'll pay whatever penalty Oregon imposes for the speeding charge and the...
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    Time limit for billing

    The answer depends on the type of debt and the state and federal laws, if any that regulate it. For the most part, there isn't any set time period in the law for sending a bill. Getting a bill simply tells you that the sender is claiming you owe them $X and wants payment of it. For private debts...
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    Lawyer turned out to be liar and thief

    I realized that right after I posted my reply and went back to correct my post.

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