Law & Ethics - November 2006

What if your grandma was in a nursing home, and your dad was the go between with her money. It was his job to take her pension and pay the nursing home. But you've found out he stole the money, and the nursing home is talking about discharging her. She owes them 3 to 5 thousand dollars in unpaid rent. And now your dad is trying to skip town to get out of having to answer for it.
Can the nursing home kick her out? What would you do?

2006-11-21 11:25:43 · 6 answers · asked by cirque de lune 6

We bought and sold property almost 6 months ago. The solicitor sent us a final bill and deducted all monies due from our free procceeds before sending us a cheque for the balance. At the time, we had no reason to suspect the amount was in any incorrect in fact it was almost exactly what they told us it would be.

Apparentley they made a mistake and now say they undercharged us by £800 and are demanding this amount by return. Can they do this? They have done no more work for us and our invoice clearly said the amount paid was in "full and final settlement"
Help!

2006-11-21 11:17:25 · 12 answers · asked by LadyTraveller 5

My mothers husband hired an indepentant concractor to paint his house...the guy took too long to finish...he asked me...i accepted the verbal contract to be paid 600 in increments of 200 per job done....i recieved 400 he stiffed me on 200...i want to sue.how should i resolve this issue of breach of contract & under the table pay which is illegal.

2006-11-21 11:15:43 · 11 answers · asked by oc_all_day 1

If the Federal courts have found that the grand jury selection process in louisiana is inconstitutional, why won't the district courts acknowledge this and make decisions based upon these
findings in court cases for those who are requesting reconsideration of sentencing based upon these findings by the Federal courts?

2006-11-21 11:13:44 · 1 answers · asked by Cynthia T 1

I worked for a movie producer who never paid me.
I registered his name as a website to warn others of my experience.
His lawyers claim I am breaking the law.

Can anyone analyse my website and tell me what (if anything) I should change to keep it legal?
www.allan-niblo.com
Thanks for looking.

2006-11-21 11:10:49 · 15 answers · asked by ewan123ewan 2

2006-11-21 11:09:41 · 6 answers · asked by Sushi Hound 2

Which buisness or website is an employer most likely to use when conducting an enployee background?

2006-11-21 11:06:41 · 9 answers · asked by michaelgamboa_80 2

I was hunted down by my birthmom because my SEALED adoption records were opened. It was my understanding that once she relinquished her rights, she couldn't find me. lo and behold, she did.

since that time, i've learned about "search angels" who somehow are able to hunt people down. I often wonder how they do that -- do they have and SHOULD they have access to personal databases? do you think identity theft could be a problem?

2006-11-21 10:54:43 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

I posted bond for my friend in Louisiana in 1999. And she jumped bail. 7 years later I have been receiving calls from a lawyer in Texas trying to collect on this. Does anyone know if there are any statue of limits on this? I just don't see how I can be sued after 7 years. Please Help!!!

2006-11-21 10:47:51 · 3 answers · asked by beyondthelimit 5

you just got back to school from a long weekend with family you decide to go to bed. The door to apartment is locked when you go to sleep. You have a roomate that forgets to lock door on continuos bases the next morning you wake up and you have been robbed and there are no signs of door being broken into its obvios that someone didnt lock door. The other kicker is that the only stuff that seems to be missing is your stuff, television, wallet with 300 cash in it, cd play which you just bought yesterday, while roomates bike is still there and other valueble items. what do you think happens here? obviously roomate didnt do it but did he have a part? if he didnt should he be respobsible for replacement?

2006-11-21 10:46:36 · 1 answers · asked by johnjd_cmu 4

2006-11-21 10:43:38 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

It's sickening that even Conservative states like Ohio, Georgia, South Carolina, etc. are now putting in legal protection for public breastfeeders. Don't these women have any shame? Why must they be such blatant deviant exhibitionists?

2006-11-21 10:40:12 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

After you are 21 marajana doesn't affect you very much. People say that smoking weed is worst then smoking cigarretes but ciggaretes people smoke a pack a day and weed you barely smoke. Also weed isn't addicting. People say its mentally addicting ( anything can be mentally addicting )

2006-11-21 10:38:39 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

no questions asked, would you stoop low enough to take the money even if you did not need assistance?

I wouldn't!

2006-11-21 10:29:56 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

It's only illegal because the racists beliefs that this country was built on felt that the mexicans living in this country were running wild. Marijuana was grown and smoked back in the days without any laws to regulate, but it was mostly being consumed by mexicans and the rednicks at that time wanted the chinamen to build the railroad and wanted the mexicans to go back to mexico.. While they killed off all the buffalo and took the Indian lands and started mistreating the Irish and Italians..

Yeah thats our history.

2006-11-21 10:01:30 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

I think it's idiotic and wrong.

2006-11-21 09:58:31 · 9 answers · asked by 12Grey14 4

A little Mad?
When was the last time a cop actually helped you? Police issue tickets to make the government
money, not to help you. Police are meter maids doing nothing productive, but make your life
harder to live. They call tow trucks take your car and if you can't get it out, they re-sell it at
auctions to car dealerships, who sell it right back to you. You accept the rules of the game of life
because you feel powerless to change them. The government controls you into working your life,
having children and putting them in the same situation you are in now, and then you die.
Your parents did it to you, you do it to your children.
Did you really need that cop to write a ticket and fine you for not keeping up with the laws?
When you did something wrong as a child, did your parents tell you, you owe them $100?
Or did did you learn your lesson another way?

2006-11-21 09:58:04 · 5 answers · asked by Eric M 2

I'm looking for a citation for the source.

2006-11-21 09:55:08 · 2 answers · asked by TBear 1

I read in the newspaper a few days ago that a 16-year old boy went out and had sex with a 22-year old girl, and on his way home, stopped by someone's house and purposely killed the owner. The boy was caught and went through the court as an adult. While in court, he mentioned that he had sex with the 22-year old. That girl was found guilty for having sex with a minor.

Is it fair for the boy to be tried as an adult, but considered a minor so that the girl could be convicted?

2006-11-21 09:54:57 · 7 answers · asked by Rube 2

It's absolutely not true. Republicans enforce stem cell research but don't want to let people to use the embryonic part of stem cell research as an excuse for abortion. For some reason leftys seem to think that bc we dont like one aspect of it, we must be against the whole thing. Why is that?

2006-11-21 09:54:01 · 8 answers · asked by TJ815 4

Humus Recipe

A chick-pea cream with garlic, Humus, Oumos, or Hummus
A delicious and healthy mediteranean recipe, easy, cheap and fast to make (10 min).
Humus is a cream of chick peas with garlic, lemon and olive oil, from Lebanon.

- Take a can of chickpeas (standard, 850ml 530 g), also called garbanzo beans. Wash the peas (4 holes on one side, open the other, put in a sink and rinse under a water flush)
- Put the peas in a blender (food-processor, e.g., Magimix).
- Add 100 ml of lemon juice (one glass or half a cup, unsweetened, e.g., Pulco, or two lemons)
- Let it turn for a while. When it becomes “creamy”
- Add 100 ml of olive oil (one glass or half a cup. Better to replace ¼ of the glass with canola (rapeseed) oil, for fatty acids balance)
- Let it turn until the cream is “perfect”. While it turns:
- prepare four big garlic cloves,
- Stop the blender, crunch the garlic with a garlic-cruncher on top of humus, wait 2-3 min for garlic to “mature”, and mix again the humus (why should you wait? Why should garlic "mature"? see the explanation in the Gaspacho recipe).
- Serve it cold, with mint leaves as ornament (optional). Spread it on bread (or take a spoon!)

For those who “hate” garlic (yes, they exist), make humus without garlic, but provide cumin powder with it.
For those who like “hot” stuffs, use an olive oil where red chilli pepper have been “swimming” for a while.
Tahini Some people E-mailed me: "Hummus should contain tahini!" = sesame cream. Well, not easy to find in a supermarket, but Meige brought me a "Tahina" box (Alkanater, Lebanon). I thus tried to make hummus with one, two or four large spoons of tahini. But I did not find it better than without tahini: it makes hummus heavy and sticky, hard to clean and not so tasty. My advice is thus not to use it, but if you like it, use it ...

2006-11-21 09:41:18 · 15 answers · asked by phoenix26ashes 2

A Yahoo user with an E-Mail Address tried to hack in to my Social Security Number. Is there a way that someone can assist me in finding the person that attempted this crime?

Thanks

2006-11-21 09:35:59 · 7 answers · asked by Barry W 1

Law and Ethics are in the same category on Yahoo Answers?

2006-11-21 09:27:31 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

an original race issue on the true minority

2006-11-21 09:15:46 · 13 answers · asked by Tracker 2

2006-11-21 08:56:54 · 8 answers · asked by ampitout 2

2006-11-21 08:53:06 · 8 answers · asked by George S 1

MY Co-workers and all took one. what will happen if the innocent one failed and the criminal passes? Can a polygraph be used against you? What would you do if you owned this business? would you fire the one who failed?

2006-11-21 08:51:41 · 4 answers · asked by ????? 2

Straightforward, I thought. Divide everything (not much!) between five people. Individual items to those who liked them. But what if I won some money? I'd like to leave more to my godchild if so.

What if my apartment is worth less when I die, but is worth keeping as it will be worth more later on? Rent it out instead of selling it? Which should I direct my executor to do? I don't have much except a place to live, and I know I should make a will.

And should I pay a lawyer or have a relative as executor? OK, I know what a lawyer will tell me - but at least they are being paid for the inconvenience?
Should I say one-sixth of everything goes to the executor? Any thoughts? I do know two friends whose fathers didn't even make a will, and it was tough. I wouldn't wish that on anyone who outlives me. I wish I knew how, though! Has anyone ever made a will that says 20% each to A,B,C,D,E?

2006-11-21 08:28:49 · 7 answers · asked by WomanWhoReads 5

2006-11-21 08:26:35 · 1 answers · asked by Kallista23 1

will i be arrested if i don't show up in court even if it has nothing to do with a crime?

2006-11-21 08:20:13 · 5 answers · asked by yukmouth 6