It is not sufficient to simply say that your husband lied to you regarding intentional omissions from a joint income tax return. Lack of knowledge regarding tax laws is also not a valid argument when...
The practice of selling or transferring the servicing of your mortgage loan is very common in the mortgage industry and your mortgage servicing can be transferred more than once during the life of you...
You won't necessarily lose your health insurance if you are fired or laid off from your job....
If someone has violated your mandatory arbitration agreement, submit a letter to court informing the court of the agreement. Include a copy of the agreement in the letter. The court reviews the reques...
You can opt for binding arbitration for either a single factual issue or the entire decision. Appropriate cases for binding arbitration include valuations, reasonable compensation for taxes owed, and ...
Look at your employment contract. If it explicitly references or guarantees a salary figure, that would be the best and easiest case for the employee (and conversely, the worst for the employer)....
Both federal and many states' laws regulate the payment of wages. If both apply, it is challenging to figure out whether to follow federal or state law, or both....
Gross income is almost everything of value received by a taxpayer during the taxable year. In fact, the law is that everything of value a taxpayer receives during the year is income unless the taxpaye...
Ejectment is a legal remedy to resolve conflicts between a landlord and tenant that can sometimes be used to remove a person from wrongfully occupying real estate. Ejectment can be available if a land...
Any party can attempt to appeal a decision from a circuit court of appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court, but this doesn't mean that the appeal will be heard. Each year, the Supreme Court typically grants...
There is generally no record made of a mediation, and nothing from a mediation proceeding becomes public knowledge (like court cases and transcripts sometimes can). When you submit a dispute to mediat...
Mediation is not a formal legal proceeding, although it may be required by a court that you at least try out the process of mediation in certain cases before bringing the issues to court to be decided...
Age discrimination involves treating a person or persons differently on the basis of age. In many instances, this is a form of prohibited discrimination as age should not affect the hiring or firing o...
The first thought after hearing the final judgment in any trial is to expect the “winning” side to be celebrating and the “losing” side to appeal the decision. But the calculus involved in the...
What if the parents disagree on child custody and visitation?...
Is my employer permitted to borrow money from my pension plan, as long as the employer pays it back?...
The individual plaintiff's attorneys, or some of them, direct the multi-district litigation through a committee of lawyers known as a plaintiff's steering committee....
What constitutes 'willful misconduct' under the Warsaw convention?...
Fair Use is a defense to a claim of copyright infringement. This means that if you were to use a work and you thought your use was "fair use", you would have to be sued for infringement and assert tha...
Discussion of the percentages music publishers are paid for various forms of music income. In exchange for a typical co-publishing deal, the music publisher is traditionally paid 50% of the "publisher...
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