Speaker 1: You're listenings KFI AM six forty the Bill Handles show
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Speaker 1: Handle here on a Saturday morning, right up until ten
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Speaker 1: you'll have Rich to Burrow on with the Tech show.
Speaker 1: But I'm going to continue taking phone calls and I'll
Speaker 1: tell you all about that a little bit later on.
Speaker 1: I'll be doing it off the air, and you'll not
Speaker 1: even wait because we're going to go through these things
Speaker 1: very very quickly. And the number here is eight hundred
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Speaker 1: legal advice, where I tell you have absolutely no case.
Speaker 2: All right, couple things.
Speaker 1: We are at the start of the Trump administration about
Speaker 1: a year in and obviously, and if you've listened to
Speaker 1: my morning show Monday through Friday, it is you know.
Speaker 1: I have a real issue with the Trump administration, and
Speaker 1: in terms of LGBTQ rights and dealing with trans and
Speaker 1: dealing with people who are gay, obviously, and the President
Speaker 1: is not much in favor of this. And one of
Speaker 1: the things that the president believes, for example, there's no
Speaker 1: such thing as trans doesn't exist.
Speaker 2: No one can be trans. If you're born a man,
Speaker 2: you're a man.
Speaker 1: And if you want to switch over to a woman,
Speaker 1: because that's who you are, if you're wired that way,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: You're a man.
Speaker 1: Whatever appears on that birth certificate, you're a man. So
Speaker 1: that one is flying through. There's also the birthright business
Speaker 1: that he's doing, which I just don't understand, and that is,
Speaker 1: if your one of your parents is ill, is not legal,
Speaker 1: or both your parents are not legal, and you're born
Speaker 1: in the United States, you're not a citizen. Well you
Speaker 1: got you know, the fourteenth Amendment says outright, you're a
Speaker 1: citizen if you're born in the United States, and he's
Speaker 1: trying to unravel that one. I don't know where he's
Speaker 1: going to go with this one. But let me tell
Speaker 1: you what has has gone in his favor, and that
Speaker 1: is the passport birth sex policy. And this has to
Speaker 1: do with you get a passport and you are not
Speaker 1: a trance. It doesn't exist the past.
Speaker 2: Now we're talking about a passport.
Speaker 1: The passport reflects the holder sex at birth. So if
Speaker 1: you're born a man, there your name is as a
Speaker 1: man on the passport and you become a woman. And
Speaker 1: by the way, I do believe people are wired that way.
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody chooses to be gay. Oh boy,
Speaker 1: I'm going to wake up tomorrow morning because I want
Speaker 1: to I want to be gay, or I want to
Speaker 1: be trans. It's who you are.
Speaker 2: And you can ask for a name change.
Speaker 1: People who are trans asked for name changes all day long. Well,
Speaker 1: the American policy now the passport must reflect the holder's
Speaker 1: sex at birth. Of course, there was a lawsuit that
Speaker 1: was filed, and this Supreme Court ruled that the Trump
Speaker 1: administration can do exactly that in an emergency order. What
Speaker 1: the court said that the requirement that the person's name
Speaker 1: and sex be be recognized in terms of a passport
Speaker 1: what happens in birth. The court said, the government is
Speaker 1: merely attesting to a historical fact, not subjecting anyone to
Speaker 1: differential treatment. It's just this is who this person is,
Speaker 1: was born a male is a male, and so that
Speaker 1: is not a policy issue. That's just a recognition of
Speaker 1: a fact. Well, here is the way it works. The
Speaker 1: court has given Donald Trump almost unlimited power. They believe
Speaker 1: that the president can virtually decide anything at any time,
Speaker 1: under any circumstances. That's the way I read it. And
Speaker 1: that's because you've got now a very very conservative court.
Speaker 1: President Trump issued an executive order on an inauguration day
Speaker 1: declaring that the US recognizes only two sexes, male and female.
Speaker 1: That's when the State Department made that change. So there
Speaker 1: it is. Passport either has an M or an F
Speaker 1: sex marker on it. And that's the way it now works.
Speaker 1: By the way, under the Biden administration, there was a
Speaker 1: new policy that allowed people to chooge x as a
Speaker 1: third party if they don't identify as a male or female.
Speaker 1: And guess what, that's off the table now. But that's
Speaker 1: where we're gonna get, you know, and you know it's
Speaker 1: you know, I bitch and moan all the time, and
Speaker 1: there are people that say, oh my god, look what
Speaker 1: the Trump administration is doing.
Speaker 2: I know you guys voted.
Speaker 1: I didn't vote for Trump, by the way, I didn't
Speaker 1: vote for anybody. I do that quite often. I'm unaffiliated.
Speaker 1: I'm not a member of the Democratic Party or the
Speaker 1: Republican Party, and I have voted for both sides, and
Speaker 1: then when I'm really unhappy with both sides, I just
Speaker 1: don't vote in that particular race, which I have done.
Speaker 1: Now for the presidency, I think three times I haven't
Speaker 1: voted because I'm unhappy with everybody. But then you know,
Speaker 1: I'm unhappy with everybody. All right, let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: take some phone calls, Susan. Let's start with you. Hello, Susan,
Speaker 1: welcome to handle on the law.
Speaker 3: Hey Bill, my daughter nts two large storage units in
Speaker 3: her apartment building. The management company mistakenly flagged them as abandoned.
Speaker 3: Hired a company, and they cleaned both of them out
Speaker 3: and disposed of the items. She has presented them a
Speaker 3: demand letter asking for the items back, which has been weeks.
Speaker 4: Now they're probably gone.
Speaker 3: But it wasn't like a couple cans of paint. It
Speaker 3: was all her furniture, clothing, mementos.
Speaker 4: You know Grandma's trying to do.
Speaker 1: I understand.
Speaker 5: Well, let me ask you this.
Speaker 1: That's a real easy question. Yes, they are liable, and
Speaker 1: all they can do is give you money. And now
Speaker 1: you're suing for money. How much money is going to
Speaker 1: be part of that lawsuit?
Speaker 3: Well, that's what we're trying to figure out. We want
Speaker 3: to see if they're going to offer something.
Speaker 1: They are, they're going to low ball you. They're going
Speaker 1: to low ball you.
Speaker 4: I'm sure they will. I'm sure they're So.
Speaker 1: How much my do you?
Speaker 2: Oh, you don't even have any idea how much is
Speaker 2: this worth? Correct?
Speaker 3: Oh, it could be twenty thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: It could be twenty thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: You can't put in a lawsuit it can be twenty
Speaker 1: thousand dollars. You have to You've got to specify this
Speaker 1: is twenty thousand dollars worth of stuff. Okay, so what's
Speaker 1: your question now?
Speaker 3: But what kind of value do you put on sentimental stuff?
Speaker 1: How do you do basically zero? Yeah, the law doesn't
Speaker 1: give a rats about sentimental stuff. I mean, you can
Speaker 1: argue it. But you know, you've got a plate that
Speaker 1: you bought, that grandma bought for two dollars and it's
Speaker 1: been in the family for three generations. What is that worth? Yeah,
Speaker 1: one thousand dollars? Is it worth ten thousand dollars? I
Speaker 1: mean you can say you can offer me ten thousand
Speaker 1: dollars for this plate, and I would never sell it
Speaker 1: for almost any amount of money because this is my
Speaker 1: grandma who gave it to me, and she loved me,
Speaker 1: and she would cook me a nice google and she
Speaker 1: would bake for me, and uh, you know, it's worth
Speaker 1: everything to me. So what does the court do. Well,
Speaker 1: here's ten thousand dollars. The problem is you have to
Speaker 1: prove what it is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Now, so they're gonna they're gonna offer her something, Yeah,
Speaker 3: to settle it. I'm sure because they kept saying we're
Speaker 3: gonna make it right. We're going because screwed up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, understand.
Speaker 3: And now can we go back and counter them without
Speaker 3: an attorney?
Speaker 2: Of course? Of course.
Speaker 1: Okay, you count like crazy.
Speaker 2: Now the problem you have is proving.
Speaker 1: What was you this?
Speaker 5: I know?
Speaker 1: However, No, however, if the court believes if it's reasonable amount,
Speaker 1: and you argue, let me tell you there was a
Speaker 1: set of that was furniture that was worth X dollars
Speaker 1: and maybe you have a picture of it or you
Speaker 1: can describe it, and there's an appraiser will say, well
Speaker 1: this these are valued between ten and twenty thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: You go right in the middle you asked for that.
Speaker 1: But the problem is, you know, why don't you ask
Speaker 1: for one hundred thousand dollars because you had one hundred
Speaker 1: thousand dollars worth of gold and a box in there.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, see here, that's the problem.
Speaker 2: Your issue is going to be valuation.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So another thing is, can we also go to
Speaker 3: her Homewanns insurance with theft.
Speaker 2: No, it's up to them. No, it's up to no.
Speaker 1: Of course not. You can't double dip. You're not allowed
Speaker 1: to double dipping. By the way, you don't go to
Speaker 1: the insurance company. They go to their insurance company. You're
Speaker 1: not suing the insurance company. You're suing them, and the
Speaker 1: insurance company merely says to them, we will cover you.
Speaker 1: That's what insurance is about. You have no relationship with
Speaker 1: the insurance company. So the answer is your problem is
Speaker 1: going to be valuation.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 1: And I mean you're not gonna get zero. You're going
Speaker 1: to describe what is in there. You're gonna have witnesses
Speaker 1: come and say this is what we saw in there,
Speaker 1: or we talked about it or anything reasonable. The court
Speaker 1: will certainly look at Yeah, it's difficult, it really is.
Speaker 1: I mean, you've got a winner there. But the problem
Speaker 1: is you know how much is the winner?
Speaker 2: Don't know? This is Handle on the Law and.
Speaker 1: This is CAF I bill handle here on a Saturday morning,
Speaker 1: eight hundred and five two zero one five three four.
Speaker 1: Welcome back Handle on the Law. Oh Bob, welcome to
Speaker 1: the show this morning.
Speaker 5: Hello.
Speaker 4: Can you hear me?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 2: Yes, I can, Yes, I can hear you call.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I have a small farm and I paid for workman's
Speaker 4: comp insurance through through a company. I didn't have any employees.
Speaker 4: I had companies come here to work. The policy expired.
Speaker 4: Let it expire, and then like two weeks later, well,
Speaker 4: they wanted to audit my books. I said no, I
Speaker 4: didn't have any employees. So then then they re After
Speaker 4: that policy expired, I hired another insurance workman's comp insurance.
Speaker 4: They sent me a reinstatency that they're reinstating the policy.
Speaker 1: So, well, hang on, but you're saying you hired another
Speaker 1: insurance company. Yes, so the new insurance company wants you
Speaker 1: to reinstate to the old insurance company for you to
Speaker 1: keep your policy. Is that correct?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 4: No, no, the old insurance policy wanted to keep me
Speaker 4: on the books for some reason.
Speaker 5: I could.
Speaker 4: They would never explain why.
Speaker 2: Okay, you cancel them and you canceled them.
Speaker 4: Correct, Well, here's what happened. They canceled me. I said okay, fine.
Speaker 4: Then they reinstated me, and I told them I'm not
Speaker 4: paying it. They wanted another three hundred and seventy dollars.
Speaker 4: I said, I'm not paying. So I finally let them
Speaker 4: audit my books. They didn't find any employees, like I
Speaker 4: kept telling him, I don't have any employees.
Speaker 1: Okay, you know.
Speaker 4: And so now they sent me a bill for They
Speaker 4: finally canceled my policy here about three weeks ago, and
Speaker 4: they say I owe him three hundred and seventy dollars.
Speaker 1: Okay, and did you did you, in writing cancel your policy?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 5: I did not.
Speaker 2: Oh so got it. So when you say, but Fred.
Speaker 1: Said my policy was canceled, and I talked to him,
Speaker 1: then they ask you really, do you have any record
Speaker 1: of it?
Speaker 4: Well, I have their I have their cancel cancel on
Speaker 4: my email.
Speaker 2: I kept think, okay, well then you've canceled.
Speaker 1: Then there's a writing, then there's a writing, and so
Speaker 1: now they reinstated it.
Speaker 2: But there was a cancelation.
Speaker 1: A cancelation is a cancelation, so I don't quite understand.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, So now what they.
Speaker 1: Want three five dollars okay, and here's the problem. You're
Speaker 1: gonna say no, they're maybe gonna nail your credit. That's
Speaker 1: the part I hate. So there's an appeals product. You go,
Speaker 1: who do I talk to?
Speaker 4: I can appeal that, okay?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you call him out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, of course you call him up and you go, okay,
Speaker 2: who do I talk to?
Speaker 1: You? And you get this straightened out. I mean it
Speaker 1: may have fallen through the cracks. You know, you say,
Speaker 1: it sounds okay, it doesn't seem to me any huge deal.
Speaker 1: Steve Hi, Steve, welcome.
Speaker 5: They handle.
Speaker 6: And the attorney was able to hold on a.
Speaker 1: Minute, you were in an accident. I didn't hear that.
Speaker 1: You weren't in an accident, correct, Yeah.
Speaker 6: That was in a car. Okay, got it, and got
Speaker 6: the attorney was able to settle the case for three
Speaker 6: hundred thousand. You're telling me my medical bills are one
Speaker 6: hundred and seventy thousand, and the attorney is going to
Speaker 6: take forty five percent right off the top of the
Speaker 6: three hundred thousand, so that at least me five thousand
Speaker 6: in debt.
Speaker 1: Okay, So what's your question.
Speaker 6: Happened that be.
Speaker 5: Out of it? Okay, I'll tell.
Speaker 1: You exactly how.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you exactly how that can be.
Speaker 1: Number One, you can actually you fight, you dispute the
Speaker 1: medical bills and you say it isn't one hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy five thousand dollars. And here's why. By the way,
Speaker 1: do you have insurance at all? Do you have medical insurance?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 1: Okay, brilliant, Okay, that's excellent. Good for you.
Speaker 6: All right, So the other party's paying, the other insurance
Speaker 6: company of the other party is paying.
Speaker 1: Okay, then they can't so the insurance company, so they
Speaker 1: can't double dip. Where does one hundred and seventy five
Speaker 1: thousand dollars go to? If they've already been paid.
Speaker 6: They haven't been paid yet, okay.
Speaker 1: So that's one hundred and said, well, if the insurance
Speaker 1: company is going to pay it, then they has that
Speaker 1: one hundred and seventy five thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: Been paid yet?
Speaker 5: No? Not yet.
Speaker 2: Okay, So that hasn't been paid.
Speaker 1: You said they got one hundred and seventy five thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: They haven't.
Speaker 6: It's setting an account my medical bills total to one
Speaker 6: hundred and seventy thousand.
Speaker 1: No, I understand, but you're saying the insurance company on
Speaker 1: the other side is paying for it, so uh, and
Speaker 1: it hasn't been paid, So you have a hunt. You
Speaker 1: have one hundred and seventy five thousand dollars in the
Speaker 1: bank or what's the attorney right? Okay, So at that
Speaker 1: point you've got one hundred and seventy five thousand dollars
Speaker 1: not in your puncket. But if the other side is
Speaker 1: paying for it, uh, the attorney releases it to you.
Speaker 1: Has to.
Speaker 2: There's no such thing as double dipping.
Speaker 1: Okay, So you're actually in the good one hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy five thousand dollars if the other side pays it.
Speaker 1: Now they're negotiating, believe me, they're negotiating with the medical provider.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, are they negotiating. They're not gonna pay anywhere
Speaker 1: near one hundred and seventy five thousand dollars, but it's
Speaker 1: gonna you're gonna be covered, so your medical bills will
Speaker 1: be covered. Okay, that's for starters, so you don't worry
Speaker 1: about medical bills. And now he gets forty five percent,
Speaker 1: what does your retainer say?
Speaker 2: That you signed with the lawyer.
Speaker 6: It says that if the case goes on for more
Speaker 6: than six months and is settled before it goes to trial,
Speaker 6: and the attorney gets forty five percent.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you agreed in writing that the attorney gets
Speaker 1: forty five percent, right, Yeah, what part of forty five
Speaker 1: percent does he not get after you've agreed that he
Speaker 1: does get it?
Speaker 6: Well, I mean, but you can't negotiate with the attorney reading.
Speaker 1: After the fact. I don't think he I don't think. Sure,
Speaker 1: you can negotiate. But he's got the money already, right,
Speaker 1: Why would he? Why would he reduce the fee?
Speaker 6: Well, I mean at the point that I'm in debt
Speaker 6: five thousand, No you're not.
Speaker 1: No, you're not. The medical bills are going to be
Speaker 1: all paid, and so forty five thousand dollars forty five
Speaker 1: percent of three hundred thousand dollars is not putting you
Speaker 1: in debt.
Speaker 2: Do the math.
Speaker 6: Well, one hundred and seventy three hundred thousand is one
Speaker 6: hundred and thirty five thousand, right, So.
Speaker 1: He's gonna get one hundred and thirty five thousand dollars
Speaker 1: and you're gonna get the rest of the three hundred thousand.
Speaker 2: That's the way I.
Speaker 6: Want people will get there one hundred and seventy.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, but they're not. It's not gonna be one
Speaker 2: hundred and seventy.
Speaker 1: So if they're willing to pay one hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: thousand dollars, three hundred thousand dollars, you're gonna do a
Speaker 1: lot better than that. You're not gonna be in debt.
Speaker 1: You're not being down. The attorney got a real good
Speaker 1: chunk of money, and you agree to it. Just do
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Speaker 1: lot of people don't realize that bad breath not only
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Speaker 1: also it comes from your gut, your stomach. Why is
Speaker 1: that Because the food that causes bad breath in your
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: for Zelmans, and it's a good portion goes to Katerina's
Speaker 1: Club to help feed the kids. And it's well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, you want kids to eat, don't you? You
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Speaker 1: being horrible. You're letting kids starve to death. How do
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Speaker 4: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KF I
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Speaker 1: KFI Handle here on a Saturday morning. Half an hour
Speaker 1: more to go and then I'll take some phone calls
Speaker 1: after the show and I'll do.
Speaker 2: That off the air, and I'll explain a little bit
Speaker 2: later on.
Speaker 1: Also today at two o'clock, Neil Savadra with the Fork Report.
Speaker 2: Neil is not in studio.
Speaker 1: He is broadcasting live at the Wendy's in Mission Viejo
Speaker 1: on Alisha Parkway and you can just you know, do
Speaker 1: a Google map or a waves. It's on two three
Speaker 1: zero two to two Alisha Parkway. It is the Wendy's
Speaker 1: and that's from two to five his normal broadcast time.
Speaker 2: And I am joining him.
Speaker 1: So I'd love to have you guys come over and
Speaker 1: say hello and yell at me and do whatever you do.
Speaker 1: And we are raising money for Katerina's Club and is
Speaker 1: the charity that KFI and us and the rest of
Speaker 1: us have adopted to feed the kids. And Bruno, who
Speaker 1: created brunover the Anaheim White House as his restaurant, created
Speaker 1: the club and maybe twenty years ago and it now
Speaker 1: feeds twenty five thousand meals a week to kids. So
Speaker 1: hopefully we'll see you there two to five pm at
Speaker 1: the Wendy's and Mission va Ho. All right back we go.
Speaker 1: First of all, let me give you some phone numbers,
Speaker 1: even though we have some phone calls lines open just
Speaker 1: like a full board eight hundred five two zero one
Speaker 1: five three four and welcome back to handle on the
Speaker 1: law marginal Legal Advice. All right, Phil, Hello, Phil? What's
Speaker 1: going on?
Speaker 9: I got it. It's had a medical data breach and
Speaker 9: they want me to send back the form and it's
Speaker 9: a win or something. You get between two hundred and
Speaker 9: fifty dollars and sixty seven dollars. And I just want
Speaker 9: to know. I know I did belong to that regal
Speaker 9: medical group.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, let me ask you a question.
Speaker 2: Is the notice from a law firm?
Speaker 9: No, it says no lawyers, okay.
Speaker 2: And who is sending you the notice? What organization is
Speaker 2: sending you the notice?
Speaker 9: See, it just says in regard to medical day.
Speaker 1: It doesn't have wait a second, it doesn't have anything
Speaker 1: on it, for example, the name of a law firm,
Speaker 1: the name of an organization.
Speaker 2: It just sends to you, there's been a breach and
Speaker 2: you're going to get money.
Speaker 1: You're right, Oh that's a scam.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's yeah, you're done.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean that's crazy. It doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 1: How do you get a four. I'm saying you received
Speaker 1: some money contact us and there's not even the name
Speaker 1: of a company there. How crazy is that? Melissa? Hi, Melissa, welcome, Yes,
Speaker 1: Hi Baill Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna let my husband talk to you.
Speaker 6: Hennaan I will yes.
Speaker 7: I purchased a tile roof twenty four years ago and
Speaker 7: it leaked the other night. It had a twenty five
Speaker 7: year guarantee or warranty, so we're still under the warranty
Speaker 7: the other and I pulled the paperwork out on it
Speaker 7: and called the guy who put it in and it's
Speaker 7: a different roofing company but the same phone number. So
Speaker 7: what I'm assuming is they still own or they bought
Speaker 7: the other guy's business. What I'm asking is, does the
Speaker 7: new owner of the business have to honor the contract
Speaker 7: twenty five year warranty?
Speaker 1: Absolutely?
Speaker 6: Okay?
Speaker 1: Yeah, he bought a twenty five year warranty, you bet
Speaker 1: you okay, this is for your home, correct, This is
Speaker 1: for the home? Yeah? Yeah, that's easy. So if they
Speaker 1: don't pay it, and sometimes they don't because you're so
Speaker 1: close to the end of the warranty after you've made
Speaker 1: a claim, how much is how much was it to
Speaker 1: repair the roof? Did you already repair it?
Speaker 7: No, we haven't had we were asking calling him to
Speaker 7: ask him if he'd come out.
Speaker 1: Oh, good, good, good, So you're okay, you're in good shape. Well,
Speaker 1: if he doesn't pay it, and he's got to come out,
Speaker 1: they got to come out, and they have to inspect it,
Speaker 1: and they have to do whatever they do and then
Speaker 1: say yeah, we'll we'll fix it. If they don't, and
Speaker 1: after twenty four years, do I have a feeling they're
Speaker 1: going to say no, thank you. Yeah. Then you find
Speaker 1: out what it's going to cost to repair it, and
Speaker 1: you sue the company then installed it or the insurance company.
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter. Well, you sue them both. Who's ever
Speaker 2: covering it?
Speaker 1: Now? The problem is is if the company went bankrupt
Speaker 1: and the only thing that the new company did was
Speaker 1: buy the phone number, you're done, okay, you are absolutely done,
Speaker 1: because there's nobody left to sue. If it was an
Speaker 1: outright purchase of the company, yes, they bought, they bought
Speaker 1: themselves the warranty. So it could be that the company
Speaker 1: went bankrupt the only thing of value was that phone number,
Speaker 1: and the new company bought it out of bankruptcy, and you.
Speaker 2: Get to find out if that's the case.
Speaker 1: You know, you do a little bit of investigation and
Speaker 1: if you're already contacting them. I know you didn't want
Speaker 1: to hear that. Well, can I tell you right? Jim? Hi, Jim, welcome, Hey.
Speaker 4: Bill, I'm looking for some marginal legal advice.
Speaker 2: Yes, this is what you're telling.
Speaker 4: Agreement.
Speaker 5: Can you hear me?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I can, landlord tenate agreement, Yes I can.
Speaker 4: Yes, I'm just curious what might take precedence. So if
Speaker 4: a landlord and a tenant sign a month to month
Speaker 4: agreement and the agreement states that either one of them
Speaker 4: could give a thirty day notice to and the tenancy.
Speaker 4: In California anyway after a year. In the landlord tenant laws,
Speaker 4: you need the landlord needs to give the tenant sixty
Speaker 4: days notice if the tenant's been there for more than
Speaker 4: a year.
Speaker 1: So that's correct with.
Speaker 4: The agreement take precedence?
Speaker 1: No, no, there is no agreement. Have you If you
Speaker 1: sign a lease that is good for a year, there
Speaker 1: is no tenant month. So yeah, month to month is
Speaker 1: no lease. Month to month is not a lease. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, Jim.
Speaker 2: So yes, it's the sixty days that controls.
Speaker 4: So even though the agreement says only thirty days.
Speaker 2: Is agreement, it lapsed.
Speaker 4: Oh it doesn't It doesn't continue each month.
Speaker 1: No, there's no agreement. There's no agreement. Now it continues
Speaker 1: on under the same terms, but not in terms of
Speaker 1: the eviction, not in terms of when you have to leave.
Speaker 9: Got it?
Speaker 1: Yeah, so, yes, you have a sixty day or in
Speaker 1: California used to be thirty by the way, just to
Speaker 1: let you know. Okay, what do we have here? All right, Matthew?
Speaker 1: This is actually very good. Hello Matthew.
Speaker 5: Hey, how's going?
Speaker 1: Yes, sir, Yeah, so I yes, I had a warrant,
Speaker 1: mister Griger, warrant for like eight years, and I went
Speaker 1: to take care of it.
Speaker 5: And after I did, a month later, I got arrested
Speaker 5: for it. And it does you know, I have the
Speaker 5: paperwork and you know it's so it's a care of it.
Speaker 5: Fifty days in jail. So I'm wondering is there any recourse?
Speaker 2: I mean it was it a legitimate warrant?
Speaker 5: Yeah, like a hundred percent. Took care of it.
Speaker 2: Okay, So let me ask you.
Speaker 1: So they pick you up, they pick you up based
Speaker 1: on a legitimate warrant. What do you want?
Speaker 5: No, I had already taken care of it a month later,
Speaker 5: taken care of you.
Speaker 1: Take you took care of it. A month later? What
Speaker 1: from how many years ago?
Speaker 5: It was eighty? I had great years and then I
Speaker 5: took care of it. And a month later, Oh, okay,
Speaker 5: you took care of it.
Speaker 2: And how many years ago?
Speaker 5: Hey? Eight years?
Speaker 1: Eight years ago? And you were and they and they
Speaker 1: put you. They arrested you eight years ago for a
Speaker 1: warrant that you already paid. Is that correct?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 5: No, I got arrested recently.
Speaker 2: Oh got it all right?
Speaker 1: And they tossed you into Uh you got fifty days
Speaker 1: in jail?
Speaker 5: Oh no, I got it. It was like four yeah, four.
Speaker 1: Days in jail.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they screwed up.
Speaker 1: They screwed up. But you know, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 1: You know, you gotta hire rights attorney? Yeah, what's for jail?
Speaker 1: What's four days in jail worth? By the way, that's
Speaker 1: not to say that you don't have a case. What
Speaker 1: do you think it's worth?
Speaker 5: I mean, the first time I've ever had my poetic
Speaker 5: taken away a kind of a bout.
Speaker 1: You understand, what is that worth?
Speaker 5: I get it?
Speaker 1: What's that worth? Matthew?
Speaker 5: Let me think I would say twelve thousand dollars twelve?
Speaker 1: That's an interesting one. All right?
Speaker 2: So you're not asking for one hundred and twenty thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: Twelve thousand dollars. You can sue in small claims court
Speaker 1: or try. I don't know how you sue the police
Speaker 1: for small claims court. You first have to make a claim.
Speaker 5: It's kind of like, oh, kind of like, well, they've
Speaker 5: got come out.
Speaker 9: No, I understand.
Speaker 2: They screwed up, Matthew, I get it.
Speaker 1: They screwed up. You've paid off a warrant and they
Speaker 1: arrest you on a warrant that's already paid off. It
Speaker 1: fell through the cracks. It fell through the crack, and
Speaker 1: that's what happened, and you ended up with, you know,
Speaker 1: four days in jail or whatever, two days in jail.
Speaker 2: Now, how much are you entitled to? I don't know
Speaker 2: the answer.
Speaker 1: I mean, twelve thousand dollars is not crazy, but you're
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Speaker 8: I was injured during intubation. I passed out. Well, I
Speaker 8: fell and busted my head and shower. Paramedic show up,
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Speaker 1: you have a medical malpractice case, right, yes, yes, sounds
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Speaker 2: Because you've got a pretty serious case.
Speaker 1: If what you say is the way it comes down,
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Speaker 7: Some do sorry my question.
Speaker 8: They pretty much saved my life. Is it not like
Speaker 8: a good Samaritan act in the problem, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: If it doesn't matter if they picked you, it doesn't
Speaker 1: matter if they picked you up, if the ambulance picked
Speaker 1: you up and took you to a medical facility and
Speaker 1: they screwed you up so you can't breathe by intubating
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Speaker 2: That's the bottom line.
Speaker 5: I have to have surgery.
Speaker 2: On the phone, Okay, let's go through it again. You've
Speaker 2: got a medical malpractice case.
Speaker 1: You have to have surgery. I got it. Okay, thank you.
Speaker 1: You know people want to just keep on going and
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Speaker 1: pretty good to me. Stephen, Hello, Stephen, welcome.
Speaker 9: Hey Bill.
Speaker 11: I have a question for you, and I think this
Speaker 11: is in your willhouse. My biological father's name is Missy
Speaker 11: for my persificates in the father's portion or block, it's
Speaker 11: just used to state, and so I want to get
Speaker 11: him added to my per certificates.
Speaker 1: Okay, and you know who he is.
Speaker 11: Yeah, we did. I found him on twenty three and me,
Speaker 11: believe it or not, a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1: Okay, Now you can you have the right to amend
Speaker 1: your birth certificate. And then the trick is that you
Speaker 1: want to put your name on it. Now, the birth
Speaker 1: mother has the right to say I don't want to say,
Speaker 1: I don't want to tell you, but you can prove
Speaker 1: that it's you. So it's a motion in front of
Speaker 1: the court, is what it is. And it's just procedural.
Speaker 1: Now the court is going to look at it, and
Speaker 1: you know, you look at it a little bit carefully.
Speaker 1: But if you can come in, here's the DNA, here's
Speaker 1: the proof, and I want to put my dad's name
Speaker 1: on it, then usually the court will let you.
Speaker 2: Stephen, how old are you?
Speaker 11: I am fifty one?
Speaker 1: Okay, so fifty one years ago your father didn't exist?
Speaker 2: Correct?
Speaker 9: Correct?
Speaker 11: And basically, long story short, the person I that was
Speaker 11: my father, my father. My mom hooked up with my
Speaker 11: dad two weeks before he met the I knew is
Speaker 11: my friend.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, I understand that.
Speaker 1: Is he still around? Is he still alive?
Speaker 11: Oh yeah, very well?
Speaker 9: Good?
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 1: Then he also I think he is the one that
Speaker 1: has to make the motion if I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 2: So yeah, you get to look that way up.
Speaker 1: But it's one of the two of you, or maybe
Speaker 1: both of you, and that gives you more more punch
Speaker 1: with the court.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it can be done.
Speaker 1: You're allowed to amend it for a good reason, of course,
Speaker 1: and yeah, you should be okay, and you just have
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Speaker 1: you know, birth certificate change.
Speaker 2: Just throw some words out there whatever you can and you.
Speaker 1: Should be okay.
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