What is Wage Garnishment?
A wage garnishment is a legal process whereby the court orders your employer to withhold a portion of your earnings each pay period to pay off a debt. The law sets forth the maximum amounts that can b...
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Legal Options Available to Homeowners Who Use an Unlicensed Contractor
If a unlicensed contractor does a job for a consumer -- be it a remodel or some other improvement-- where the costs of the services and the materials exceed the threshold amount (typically $500), the...
Suing Your Home Construction Contractor or Builder for Construction Defects
A homeowner can file a lawsuit against a home builder or contractor (licensed or not) for a defect in an improvement. The written contract controls the obligations owed to the homeowner by the license...
Builder Warranty Claims for Death, Disappearance or Insolvency of the Builder
While a builder's or contractor's warranties are designed to protect you, sometimes your builder will die, disappear or will be insolvent (bankrupt or without assets) and you may not be able to recove...
New Home Warranties
Because most homeowners aren't in a position and don't have the knowledge to ensure that every aspect of their new home build is done properly, the obligation falls on the builder to ensure that the p...
How to Use Credit Reports to Select Tenants
You've found a seemingly good tenant for your rental, but you want to check their credit report just to make sure. Unfortunately, their score is worryingly low. What should you do now?...
How to Protect Your Lease from Foreclosure
If you have rented a home and signed a lease in good faith with a landlord, you are protected under the law in the event that the landlord has financial problems and ends up facing foreclosure. The la...
Can a New Owner Increase Your Rent After the Building Owner Dies?
If someone acquires, whether by inheritance or purchase, a building with tenants, that person is bound by any existing leases. As a result, the person inheriting the building cannot change any terms ...
Why is a traffic ticket treated differently than a civil matter by the court?
Resolving a traffic ticket in court is handled differently than resolving a civil lawsuit because most traffic tickets are handled as criminal matters....
Remaining Tenant’s Rights When Co-Tenant Breaks Lease
A lease is a contract. As a contract, it is enforceable by the parties to the contract. That means that the landlord can enforce the lease against the tenants, or the tenants against the landlord....
Tenant’s Rights When Lease Falls Through Before Signing
Can a landlord change his or her mind after a deposit is paid but before a lease is signed? Security deposit refunds are often a matter of state law or even city ordinances. As such, the rights confer...
Can Extreme Hardship Stop an Eviction?
A landlord does NOT need to take the extreme hardship of a tenant into account in filing for eviction; and the courts will also not consider it in determining whether or not (or when) to grant evictio...
Constructive Eviction
Constructive eviction describes the forced move out of a tenant from his rental that was made uninhabitable for reasons within the control of the landlord. To claim constructive eviction, thereby reli...
Comparing Cooperatives and Condominiums
What are the differences between cooperatives and condominiums?...
Understanding Birth Injury: Hip Dysplasia
Hip dysplasia is a birth injury affecting hip growth that is caused by neglect. Diagnosing it only requires simple testing, which, unfortunately, is not always properly conducted....
Anti-Depressants Linked To Birth Defects
Selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors (SSRIs) found in antidepressants such as Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil and others taken by pregnant women have been linked to birth defects such as skeletal defects, n...
Parental alienation: What does it mean and how can it affect child custody?
While ordering child custody arrangements, a judge may favor a parent who is more likely to encourage frequent and ongoing contact with the other parent. Parental alienation varies in the degree of se...
Weighing the Pros and Cons of Renters Insurance
It's tempting to think that you don't need renters' insurance, especially if you have a small apartment or don't have many possessions. But do you really not own that much? Think about how much you'd ...
Lost Income Damages for Stay-at-Home Spouses
Just because you do not work outside the home does not mean you do not have any lost earning capacity or even lost wages in calculating personal injury claim. There is economic value to the household ...
Long Term or Permanent Injury Damages
Read through this article to get a basic understanding of the factors you need to consider when calculating your long term pain and suffering damages in a personal injury lawsuit....
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