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I am thinking about teaming up with a lawyer to handle the business end of estate dispositions, effectively becoming the business person who handles the tedious process of speaking with estate sales professiobnals, real estate brokers and the like to cost-effectively liquidate assets and complete all of the appropriate forms to file with the surrogate court (under the supervision of a licensed attorney, of course), I think this could be a great business with the baby boomers starting to die-off in droves. Thoughts? Suggestions?

Please do not respond that I should not be giving legal advice. THAT IS NOT THE PLAN.

My mother was killed in a car accident 3 years ago. She was divorced from my stepfather, but they still owned a house and land together. Now that my mother is dead and her estate case has been closed, it recently surfaced that this house with both of their names on it was still in existance. Now that my mother is dead the house defaulted to my sister and I owning her half and my white trash drunk stepfather owning the other half. He is trying to force us to sign over our portion of the house so that he can sale it and pocket all of the profits, but my sister and I are planning on fighting him for whats ours. Our mother hated him and would want it that way. So we are in the process of finding an attorney but not sure what kind of attorney we need. Do we need an estate attorney even though her estate case has been closed? Or do we need a different type of attorney??? Any suggestions?

I will be serving as my aunt’s executor of her estate. She now has cancer. I plan to carry out her wishes in settling her trust and her estate, selling her home and her assets. What is a typical hourly fee to do this? I am not an attorney, but will be putting many hours into this. She has a legal living trust. This is in Nevada.

NEWARK, N.J. – Officials are decrying political corruption in New Jersey after more than 40 people, among them rabbis and elected officeholders, were arrested in an investigation in which some were accused of laundering tens of millions of dollars and of black-market trafficking of kidneys and fake Gucci handbags.
The 44 arrests Thursday were a remarkable number even for New Jersey, where more than 130 public officials have pleaded guilty or have been convicted of corruption since 2001.
"New Jersey’s corruption problem is one of the worst, if not the worst, in the nation," said Ed Kahrer, who heads the FBI’s white-collar and public corruption division. "Corruption is a cancer that is destroying the core values of this state."
Gov. Jon Corzine said: "The scale of corruption we’re seeing as this unfolds is simply outrageous and cannot be tolerated."
The arrests were headline news in Israel on Friday morning, with the front pages of all three of the country’s mass-circulation dailies featuring pictures of bearded ultra-Orthodox Jews being led away by law enforcement officials.
Micky Rosenfeld, a spokesman for Israel’s national police force, said Friday that Israeli police were not involved in the investigation. He would not comment further.
Federal prosecutors in the U.S. said the investigation focused on a money laundering network that operated between Brooklyn, N.Y.; Deal, N.J.; and Israel. The network is alleged to have laundered tens of millions of dollars through Jewish charities controlled by rabbis in New York and New Jersey.
Prosecutors then used an informant in that investigation to help them go after corrupt politicians. The informant — a real estate developer charged with bank fraud three years ago — posed as a crooked businessman and paid a string of public officials tens of thousands of dollars in bribes to get approvals for buildings and other projects in New Jersey, authorities said.
Among the 44 people arrested were the mayors of Hoboken, Ridgefield and Secaucus, Jersey City’s deputy mayor, and two state assemblymen. A member of the governor’s cabinet resigned after agents searched his home, though he was not arrested. All but one of the officeholders are Democrats.
Also, five rabbis from New York and New Jersey — two of whom lead congregations in Deal — were accused of laundering millions of dollars, some of it from the sale of counterfeit goods and bankruptcy fraud, authorities said.
Others arrested included building and fire inspectors, city planning officials and utilities officials, all of them accused of using their positions to further the corruption.
The politicians arrested were not accused of any involvement in the money laundering or the trafficking in human organs and counterfeit handbags.
Hours after FBI agents seized documents from his home and office, New Jersey Community Affairs Commissioner Joseph Doria resigned. Federal officials would not say whether he would be charged. Doria did not return calls for comment.
Authorities did not identify the informant, described in court papers as a person "charged in a federal criminal complaint with bank fraud in or about May 2006." But the date matches up with an investigation that led to charges against Solomon Dwek, the son of a Deal rabbi.
The younger Dwek was charged at the time in connection with a bounced $25 million check he deposited in a bank’s drive-through window. He has denied the charges. Dwek’s lawyer did not immediately return a call for comment Thursday.
Most of the defendants facing corruption charges were released on bail. The money laundering defendants faced bail between $300,000 and $3 million, and most were ordered to submit to electronic monitoring.
Among those ensnared by the informant was Hoboken Mayor Peter Cammarano III, prosecutors said. The 32-year-old Cammarano, who won a runoff election last month, was accused of accepting money from the developer at a Hoboken diner.
"There’s the people who were with us, and that’s you guys," the complaint quotes Cammarano saying. "There’s the people who climbed on board in the runoff. They can get in line. … And then there are the people who were against us the whole way. … They get ground into powder."
Cammarano was accused of accepting $25,000 in cash bribes. His attorney Joseph Hayden said his client is "innocent of these charges. He intends to fight them with all his strength until he proves his innocence."
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so called two elder children did not bolong to jackson clans or belong tomichael jackson ,the later acquired two children in a business deal but to lok like family affairs. It was illegal trafficking of minor children. afican american born michael jackson used them alike human in slavery_custodian. Michael was not male parent of the two children. Michael planned to acquire babies now named prince m jaclon II & paris katherine m jackson and falsely gave jackson last ++name. the children are eye witnesses as caucasian with caucasin woman debbie rowe & one or two persons as their male aprents, debbie rowe & her conjugal mate (male) of sperm donors for birth of babies. possibly debbie rowe wanted to enrich herself with possible mate dr kline dermatologist of los angeles or other. while male and female being custodian by african amercan family, those aquired by m j ,a half devil & 1/2 musical icon. Now icon is dead the devil part of m j, should pay for criminal acts performed by him through his estate i e michael jackson estate ( multi million or billion $ us estate. Fortunes of a person who was engaged in family , crime, drug uses,abuses, drug trafficking through m j employees’ criminallt motivated birth recording of minor citizens of we the people of usa noted in birth records of children , as if, mixed race babies, which was used for preplanned criminal strategies to illegal trafficiking of 2 white babies to unsafe custody of non hlood related african american,m.j.incidentally m j were charged in criminal/ civil court actions in actions were settled out of court settlements etc. in california .debbie rowe should be criminally investigated. Katherine must not be given custody or two caucasian children by falsification of a manipulations of m j deceased. michael may not dictate us laws or u s family court. A member of jackson clan is trying to make a caucasian mj out of african image of M J; also a female prototype of M J with caucasian young female viz pARIS. usa MUST STOP BEGINNING OF A CAUCAIAN SLAVERY SYSTEM UNDER INFLUENTIAL AFRICAN AMERICAN FAMILY DOCTRINES. DECEAD M J MUST PAY FOR VIOLATIONS IN HIS LIFE & HIS CRIMINAL MOTIVES TO UPSET U S SYSTM OF FAMILY LAWS, SAFETY OF MINORS, ILLEGAL TRAFFICKING ANS SALES OF MINOR CHILDREN BY TAKING ADVANTAGE OF RELATIVE POVERTY OF A CAUCASIAN MOTHER,UNLUCKY,GREEDY WOMAN :DEBBIE rOWE, ABSENTEE MALE PARENT/PARENTS OF 2 CAUCASIAN CHILDREN. U HAVE OPTIONS TO GO TO CALIFORNIA TO EYEWITNES CHILDREN IF CAUCASIAN CHILDREN WERE BORN FROM A FAMOUS AFRICAN AMERICAN m j. CC US ATTORNEY GENERAL, WASHINGTON DC CC HON GOV ,STATE OF CALIFORNIA, WITH PRAYERS OF LEGAL INVESTIFATIONS IN JACKSON M,CIVIL/CRIMINAL LAWS VIOLATIONS.
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My parents own a farm and made an agreement with an adjacent landholder to purchase some acreage on land contract. They have been making payments for some time, as well as separate payments to cover the taxes on the property. Last year, they found out that the owner had not paid the taxes on the land, and it was being foreclosed by the county for back taxes. I did some investigating and found out that there are also thousands of dollars of liens against the owner, but the liens were not put into place until a few months after the legal land contract. The owner entered into a payment agreement with the county, but soon reneged again, and the property was going up for sale for delinquent taxes. My parents stopped making payments at this time because they felt they were wasting their money, and we made plans to try to purchase the property at auction. At the last minute, though, the owner somehow came up with the money and paid all the taxes owed. However, in spite of my parents’ attempt to contact them and messages left, etc., they refuse to return phone calls. My parents offered to pay them the remaining amount in full, but they will not respond.

These people also sold some other land nearby to a neighbor. The neighbor paid for the land, but the owner refuses to give them a deed. He has even been ordered in court to give them a deed, but has not complied. He lives in a different state. At the most recent hearing, the judge ordered him again to provide the deed. At that time he said he was filing bankruptcy. I don’t know what that has to do with why he can’t provide the deed, but now we think this will allow him to keep the land, or even re-sell it, and be free from his liens.

Need some advice or help. Some way to get around this.

CLIENT/EMPLOYER: HMCL.
RECRUITMENT DEPARTMENT: HMCL HUMAN RESOURCES.

Attention:Dinesh B. Shimpi,

Designation: PLANNING MANAGER,

After various screening and verifications from the screening department on your CV/resume application . You have been offered an opportunity in HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD United Kingdom.

Kindly find as an attachment the soft copy of the Contract terms/Appointment letter which you are required to read carefully before accepting this job offer from HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD United Kingdom. You are required to sing and send back the Contract terms/Appointment letter through email scanning if you accepted our offer.

The resident work permit clearance certificate that is needed for any employee to work in UNITED KINGDOM should come from the UNITED KINGDOM Immigration here in UNITED KINGDOM. Therefore attached to this mail is UK work permit form, which will be filled in capitals and submitted.We will take care of the expenses and the provision of work visa to UNITED KINGDOM, work and resident permit. Employees would have to provide a scan copy of their international passport to enable us under take the processes of processing your work and resident permit in your favor.

The British High Commission have made it mandatory that every Immigrant to UK MUST process the INTERNATIONAL CERTIFICATE OF VACCINATION before entry Clearance will be issued to any Applicant.

If you accept the terms and conditions of work to enable and assist you procure an INTERNATIONAL CERTIFICATE OF VACCINATION which must be presented to us within three weeks of receipt of this offer letter so that we would commence the processing of your travel papers.

Below is the contact information of the immigration attorney whom you are to contact immediately to obtain an INTERNATIONAL CERTIFICATE OF VACCINATION from The United Kingdom Ministry Of Health.

Contact Person:Barrister BROWN MICHEAL
Winners Legal Chambers
Designation: Immigration Attorney
Email: barristerbrownmicheal@yahoo.com
Tel:+447024011707
Address: Unit 4 Apam Industrial Estate
Upton Magan SY4 4UG,
United Kingdom.

Note: We only commence in the processing of your Valid UK Visa/Work permit papers in the UK Embassy upon the confirmation of the needed INTERNATIONAL CERTIFICATE OF VACCINATION and failure to provide the INTERNATIONAL CERTIFICATE OF VACCINATION within the stipulated time would mean an automatic termination of appointment.

For every expatriate employee who do not presently reside in United Kingdom and have been offered an opportunity in HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD United Kingdom are to make contact with the above recommended attorney who will assist them in the procurement of an INTERNATIONAL CERTIFICATE OF VACCINATION at the United Kingdom Ministry Of Health and further process their Visa and work/resident permit papers.

The resident work permit clearance certificate that is needed for any employee to work in UNITED KINGDOM should come from the BRITISH HIGH COMMISSION/EMBASSY here in UNITED KINGDOM.

Upon the procurement of an INTERNATIONAL CERTIFICATE OF VACCINATION at the United Kingdom Ministry Of Health, the Company management will immediately commence the processing of your Visa and Work/Resident Permit papers to UK.

Note: That HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD United Kingdom, shall take care of every expatriate employees traveling expenses(Flight Ticket, Visa, Work/Resident Permit, Luggage Expenses & Relocation Allowance) except the charges for the procurement of an INTERNATIONAL CERTIFICATE OF VACCINATION from the United Kingdom Ministry Of Health which will be borne by the Employee which shall be duly reimbursed to the Employee along with the Employee’s upfront salary/flight ticket fee/Luggage Expenses/Relocation Allowance not later than 7 days to the Employee’s nominated bank account in his/her country/Home before the Employee will embark his/her journey to join our esteem organization upon submission of the INTERNATIONAL CERTIFICATE OF VACCINATION to us duly obtain from the United Kingdom Ministry Of Health.

In case of an extra incurred expenses in the course of traveling and other logistics you are advised to write a letter for reimbursement addressed to the Chief Accountant Mrs. Angela Smith Showing a Scanned copy of payment receipts, approval Letter from the recommended attorney here in UNITED KINGDOM, letter for the upfront advance salary of the first month and account information where the reimbursement will be paid.

Note: Every expatriate employee recruited for this Job opening without interview calls shall be given two (2) weeks further training on the post given to the employee after the arrival to resume duty in HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD United Kingdom.

Congratulations:
Yours Sincerely,
Mr. David Mark
+447024088721
Head Human Resource Department
HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD United Kingdom
career.hondamotorltd@live.com

We had a condo for rent, but the rental market has sunk to the point where it is a losing investment. We have listed the property for sale, but in a few months will not be able to carry the mortgage of the investment property. If the property does not sell before then, we may need to do a short sale (if the bank agrees) or worse, deal with foreclosure. To plan for a possible worst case scenario, should I consult with the bank now or wait? Should I meet with my CPA now? Is there value in meeting with a real estate attorney, too? Obviously money is tight, but I want to be prepared.

we r planning to buy a semi-independent house from a real estate builder.
the case is
1. the owner of the land has given "power of attorney " to the builder and has not sold the land to builder.
2. we do not know if the owner of the land is alive or not and we r trying to contact her.
3. builder says he will produce latest( date if which is unknown) power of attorney documents.

my doubt is :
in this case can i proceed to buy the house? in future can the owner’s children file a case against this property and claim it to be theirs as the owner has not sold to the property but only given "power of attorney " to the builder?
also the owner will not be present during registration, it will be the builder who will sign when we register the property.

Several weeks ago, after hearing a very annoying commercial by a local attorney who is VERY proud to tout his phone number ending in 000 (it’s very hard to forget because his commercials, billboards and newspaper ads are plastered all over the city), just on a whim I called Verizon to see if they had any phone numbers available ending in 000–and they did! I got the only one available, although I plan to keep checking back for more.

But here’s what I’m thinking: A phone number ending in 000 could be a major marketing tool for local businesses–lawyers, real estate agents, radio stations–and I don’t need a landline, I just thought I’d grab the phone number because it was available. I haven’t yet talked to Verizon about this idea, but I’m thinking at some point about setting up an auction on eBay for the number and send out letters to businesses in my town that might be interested in buying the number. Have any of you had any experience or can offer any advice on a venture like this?
Elz, it’s a lot easier to remember 234-9000 than it is to remember 234-6129. From a marketing standpoint, that could be a huge boon for a business.
I posted this question on the eBay forums and so far one person has replied that I don’t actually own the phone number–which is technically true, but could a case be made to transfer the number to another party if payment was made to me first as the party to whom the number was initially assigned?