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The ongoing saga of Donald Trump, the US and the world, this one has sort of come back.

We're revisiting this a few times.

And this has to do with President Trump wanting to buy Greenland straight out by it from Denmark, which if you will, owns Greenland.

It is a territory of Denmark and free years.

Trump has said, we need Greenland ourselves because of its natural resources, its tracesic location in the world in terms of our security.

So here he goes again.

Appoints Louisiana's Republican Governor Jeff Laundry to a new envoy position, and that is a special envoy to Greenland, which sort of didn't happen because it's actually Denmark, but there is no special envoy to Denmark.

And he said that Laundry understands how essential Greenland is to our national security, and we want it because it's our country's interests for the safety, security and survival of our allies and indeed the world.

So we have to.

Have it, Okay, why not Landry?

In the meantime, he's Louisiana governor's Republican staunch Trump supporter who was not giving up his position as the governor of Louisiana.

Thanked the President for the appointment and says, it's an honor to serve you in this volunteer position to make Greenland a part of the United States.

Well, how do you do that?

How do you buy a territory from another country?

Has it happened before, you bet?

For example, in eighteen o three, the United States bought the Louisiana the Louisiana Territory, which doubled the size of the country in one fell swoop.

The US paid France.

I think it was fifteen million dollars for the entire Louisiana purchase, as it's called.

So that was legitimate.

That was a territory that was owned, at least in modern day terms, owned by France.

Of course, the Native Americans didn't know.

The natives that were there in that part of the country didn't know that they were being bought or sold.

But it was a real purchase.

This one is a little bit a little bit strange because the President is saying we need it.

In the meantime, the prime minister says, no, it's not going to happen.

Greenland does have a prime minister says it's not going to happen.

We're simply not selling ourselves.

And I don't know where the President is going on this one.

I want to buy something from you, you don't want to sell it to me.

So now my choice is if I really want it, do I just take it?

Do I steal it?

Do I fight you for it?

Do I invade you?

If I want it?

And you're a country, don't.

Know, have no idea which way to go on this.

I will tell you that Trump did say that we need it Greenland for national security.

We have to have it.

All right, Let's go ahead and take some phone calls.

Raymond, Hello, Raymond, Hello there.

Yeah.

My question is after I purchased my home, UH, my wife and I put my uh two years later, put my former son in law on our deed, okay, because we thought that if we both died that he would be the one, you know, to take it.

That's correct and sin.

So since then, my wife has passed and I remarried, and so I requested from him to remove him from the uh, the deed because he had.

No no understand okay, no, he said no, right, and he said no, all right, So what's your question.

My question is that, ah, how can how can I Is there any way that I could have him removed whatever?

Because I know he's an owner.

Nope, he's on that deed and you're not doing anything without his permission and his sign off.

So it's you own it with your son, and now your decision to have put him on the deed, which, by the way, a lot of people do.

It's not a bonehead decision at all.

I'm not gonna yell.

At you on that one.

I understand that.

Yeah, but it's you know, things happen.

People get estranged, you got married, Maybe your current wife hates your son, maybe he hates her.

Life changes, but I'll tell you it doesn't change.

Raymond.

The law that says, if you're on a deed, you own that property, either by yourself with someone else as a joint tenant.

There could be five of you that own the property, but without everybody's signature.

That deed does not transfer unless someone is bought out, unless someone requests or forces the sale, which you can do by the way, you can order the sale of the house.

He can make a motion to sell the house, but you split the money with him.

I understand that.

The second question too, that that is is that if I should pass yes, my former wife, do I have to do a will for her to take my portion?

Why?

No?

No, no, no, Well, it depends on how is the property held.

Is it a joint tenancy with you and your son?

Now?

Well step son, you know is it?

Is it a joint tenancy?

This is this is how title is held.

Is it held in joint tenancy?

Do you know?

I don't think so.

No.

I think if it's tenants in common.

If it's tenants in common, then yes, you can leave your former or current wife your portion of that house.

So what happens is you die, your wife inherits your half or your fourth or whatever it was.

And so your your step son now has a new partner to deal with in the property.

That's what happens.

Oh, I seek, and so I don't need to put something like that in a wheel.

That now you do, Yeah, you do, of course you do, because you know it's a piece of property you own, or a fifth of the piece of property.

You own.

Of course, you have to put in a will if you want to transfer, transfer.

Other wise you are dying in testate without a will.

And that one piece of property that you own with your step son that is probated and that goes to your heirs, and if the property is valuable enough, yeah, it becomes a big deal.

So that's what you do.

And I'm not going to nail him either.

I'm not going to nail him because people do that all the time.

Now, my wife and I wanted to leave it to our son and we want to put his name on title right now, and it's that works and they is not reassessed, so it works fine.

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Joseph, Hi, Joseph, welcome to handle on the law.

Good morning, sir.

Question for you.

I am a risen here in Orange County.

With a great voice.

I might dad, I'm sure you're very kind.

No, no, no, you do have a great voice on right now because I'm in radio, I'm sporting a direction just hearing your voice.

I just want you to know that.

Your magnificence, Sarah.

Okay, what did I do?

I own a home here in Orange County and it's part of a home owners association, and unfortunately, some time ago I became in arrears with my associations.

In any event following that, there's a communal steel the United States Postal Service mailbox here in the community, and my lock failed, so I had to drill it out and back and forth with the post Office, not replaced for some time, left unlocked.

About six months ago, give or take, the association apparently unbeknownst to me, replaced the lock with a Postal Services lock and intentionally withheld the key for me because I was arrears, I guess as a incentive for me to become a square in any event.

When I finally found that out after talking to the association president, she provided a key not to meet directly, to give to my neighbor who gives me.

But I was without mail for six months.

Okay, what did it all?

Right?

Let me ask you this, What did it cost you?

Uh?

How badly were you stung by this in the sense of where their bills that were sent there and there were late payments?

Was your credit affected because you didn't pay?

Uh?

The because you didn't pay the appropriate bills that you were sent by banks, credit cards, et cetera.

Definitely fees that have not looked into the credit.

That yeah, look into credit.

Well, the late fees I'd sue them for in a heartbeat.

I mean the h o A violated the law by not giving you a key changing out or having uh the locks and not giving you uh the key.

I mean they interfered with with uh with federal law.

They interfered with posts with with federal post office.

They can't do that.

You can be in you can be in arrears all day long, and they can't stop you from getting mail.

Uh.

So they are now responsible for the damages, certainly any late fees.

And the big issue is your credit.

You're big.

Now they're going to say that in today's day and age, you should go on to the internet and look at what when you owe.

The money when it's due.

And I think that's a defense now, Joseph, I really do, because you should do that anyway.

I mean, I look at my credit card statement.

Well, let me put it this way.

I don't look at it every day, but I have friends of mine that look at it every single day.

So when they buy something they buy gas, for example, they check the next day or that same day did it go through and who did it, and they check for any fraudulent activity, and so they know within a day.

So I mean you should do that anyway.

Now, is that a defense that you didn't do that?

I don't think so.

I don't think.

So find out if you've.

Got the credit issue, because if your credit has been ding, that's a whole different animal.

If it's just late payments, they're just responsible and you assume them.

Okay, all right, sir.

I'm not a tech guy, so I don't really try.

I'm not either.

I'm not either.

But that's not that hard, you know what, It's not that hard go to the bank, so am I I do all papers.

Matter of fact, when I do the show here, I have monitors across the front of my desk.

I actually tape paper to the monitors.

They actually become copy stands.

That's my tech.

Okay, Oh, strangely enough, here's a story I did.

Hey it's on a piece of paper.

What a shocker.

It's not on a computer screen.

But you know, go to your bank, if you have a relationship with any bank or any tech and they'll show you how to set it up in two seconds, and you should do that.

Do you have a computer?

Not currently sure that?

Yeah, buy a cheap one.

They're three hundred bucks.

Okay.

Uh.

But and this wouldn't have happened.

You wouldn't have You would have just screamed for the key.

But anyway, Uh, yeah, you ding them.

For the money.

Uh and then uh if your credit then uh yet then it's a whole different issue.

Linda, Hi, Linda, I I was calling to see about a recall.

Everython I go.

Every time my goal or call them, they tell me.

Oh, well, did you get a letter?

No, I didn't.

It just said to bring it in because they were recalled.

And then he said, well down the line, we don't even know if there ever will be a few injectors.

Okay, Well, where did you hear if you didn't get a letter, where did you hear there was a recall of that car.

That came on the news?

Came on the news?

Okay?

Correct?

Uh, here's what I suggest you.

You You can get a letter or the official notice of recall right on the internet.

Because all you have is a news item that you walk in and go, hey, it's been re recalled.

No, I don't think so how do you prove it?

While I heard it on the news, what does that mean?

It means nothing.

The news could have the news could have gotten it wrong.

You could have gotten it wrong.

It could have been just reported wrongly.

So at this point that means nothing.

So if there is a recall, if there's an official recall, whether it is a mandated recall or a voluntary recall, that's out there and you simply have to put type in what kind of car is it?

What do you have?

It's a two thousand and one Ford Explorer sport.

Okay, So you go recall two thousand and one Ford Explorer, and that's easy, and it'll come up.

If there's a real, real call, it'll come up.

And if not, then whatever you heard on the news is either false or they made a mistake, or it was a rumor.

And I don't know.

Shelley, Hi, Shelley, welcome.

Yes, Hi Bill.

I had a double misstectomy in twenty twenty and I had a multiple infections or whatever complications and finally last year everything was great and fine.

This year I had a pain.

My doctor had retired, so I had I went to get checked out.

They looked at all my films and they and biopsyed and said, you have cancer and tissue breast tissue that should not be there.

You had an incomplete miss sectomy, and you need another one.

So this year all of my reconstruction had to be taken out and I had to have another double misstectomy because it was the first one was incomplete.

They said, okay, so let me get this.

So you've had two messed tectomies.

So you've had four boobs removed?

Correct?

Yeah, okay, boy, where do you get a swimsuit?

By the way, But it is, yeah, all right, so it sure sounds like malpractice to me.

I'll tell you right now.

It's pretty clear the way I see it.

So what I'm going to tell you, I'm not even gonna go, well, let me think about it.

No, you want to talk to a malpractice attorney, I mean medical malpractice attorney, like instantaneously.

What do you think about the fact that it was so that's five years ago, but I didn't find out about it, that's right.

Yeah, I think I still I think you're okay.

I think you're still okay, okay, And especially when you're diagnosed four years later and you go in, yeah, I you know again, it's gonna take it's gonna be a medical malpractice attorney that's going to talk to you.

And there may be an issue of there may be an issue of the statute of limitations, because I think it's either upon uh it's two or three years upon it happening, or three years after the discovery.

I don't know what it is, but you're I think you're within the statue because you're not waiting three years so the discovery of what happened and now you're coming back and going, hey, you screwed up back then, I think you're going to be okay and congratulations.

I have very rarely, rarely ever spoke to someone as four boobs.

Very impressive.

All right, take care.

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Mary, Hi, Mary, Welcome, marry you there?

Hi?

Hi?

Bill?

Are you sure?

Go ahead?

I'm getting it from management from a plaza for a least that I never signed my ex blod in law signs bad least and then now seeing my name and my kids they were working with me for some kind of insurance that they every four or five years they are charging you.

So I'm just wondering if they can do that.

Well, yeah, I mean, yeah, Mary, they can sue you for whatever they want.

That's not a problem.

You know, lawsuits are allowed in this country.

Now, my question is you are renting a store or a place in the plaza and there is no written lease at all.

Right, So the recent least was under my ex brother in law.

Okay, does he own you own the business with him?

Is his name anywhere on my company?

No?

No, my business was under my name, just saying the rent to the management of the plaza because I was in that.

Sure, but the least is not under my name.

All right, Well, of course they can.

They can sue you because I mean, you have business arrangement with them, because you can argue I don't know you rent because my name is not anything.

I mean, you know why not?

But you know you pay the rent every month and they've never said that.

You have to get insurance and show them.

So they're buying the insurance and charging you for it.

Correct, No, there was an insurance under the rent.

There was an insurance and many different things.

And I was saying those every every month with the rent and the chef was coming from my company, and I was saying them on time.

But now there's me for some different kind of insurance that they charged the whole like store, each store every four.

Five years, Mary, how much?

How much?

How much are they murray?

How much?

Mary?

How much are they charging every month?

They were charging me like A don't twenty eight hundreds.

Okay, and they're asking for how much now.

Like I don't like?

It became to like sixty almost sixty thousand dollars.

Okay, So you're paying sixty you're paying twenty eight hundred dollars a month for insurance that they're charging you for.

No, they're very insurance.

Everything's okay.

And the insurance part is that you owe us sixty thousand dollars now.

Yes, okay, there's three for sixty thousand dollars.

All right, Well, they can sue two hundred if they want, they can sue for five million.

Have they filed the lawsuit already?

Mary?

No?

Okay, Well you wait until they file the lawsuit and you keep on paying your rent, and once they sue you, Mary, then you have to get a lawyer, and there's no attorney's fees claused because there's no there's no rental agreement.

Basically, you have a verbal agreement to pay the rent, and you're I think you have an argument saying, hey, you know what, I never agree to this.

What I agree to is my whatever the rent would be without the insurance.

How long How long have you had the business there?

Twenty one years?

Oh and well, first.

Of all, they can only go back four years, or actually, on a verbal contract, they could only go back two years.

So they've got all kinds of problems on that one.

They can't charge you twenty years of this stuff.

Yes, okay, okay, So once you get sued, even.

If I don't even though it's the lease, if not under my name, you can go after me.

No, no, no, really how long is the lease?

Uh?

Well, you know what if you took over the business from your brother, you bought.

The lease effectively?

No I didn't, Yeah you did?

Did you pay?

I was always was doing the least.

In tow I understand, but you are, you are in the place.

Why don't you not pay the rent then?

Because it's not in your name?

Why don't you just stiff them on the rent.

Say, hey, it's not under my name.

I may have a business here, but my brother in law signed the lease.

And for example, uh, you know, when I let's say I buy a business, okay, and there's a lease, I don't pay the rent because hey, the lease isn't in my name, it's in the origin guys, the guy who sold it to me.

So that's not gonna fly.

Mary, Okay, all right, So when you.

Get sued and if the does the lease call for the insurance payments.

I have no idea.

You have to find out.

You call me pretty muturely.

Yeah, that lease, you got the business.

You've bought the lease with the business.

So you know, I was all confusing.

We left that out of the last minute.

Oh yeah, there's a lease, but it's in my brother in law's name.

But I took the business.

Okay, what do you.

Do with that?

Uh?

Dan?

Hello, Dan, welcome to handle on the law.

Hey Bill, how are you doing?

Yes, sir, thank you for taking my call.

Sure question obviously because I called what an idiot I am?

I think when people do that.

Anyways, a year and a half ago, I was on my way home from work on the ninety one freeway and I tapped somebody from behind, and the insurance company took it, took the claim, paid out thirteen dollars for the person that I bound and here we are a year and a half later, approximately year and a half later, I got a subpoena today going to court because she wants she's trying to send me for a great bowtery harm and injury.

Okay, being represented by Hang on a minute, She accepted the settlement from the insurance company.

Is that correct?

Yeah, okay, with that.

When you accept a settlement from the insurance company, you waive everything.

You're done.

They don't hand out money unless you say I'm finished.

I'm done, I waive any other liability.

That's usually the case unless the insurance company is simply paying for the is simply paying for bodily injury, I mean paying for property damage.

I bodily injury, property damage.

But you're not going to see a settlement unless lawyer is involved.

You're not going to see a settlement in which she did not sign.

Off on it.

So what she's doing is ignoring the fact that she signed off and she wants to sue you.

Now, is there a lawyer involved on her part.

Yes, and then okay, okay.

Then here's what you have to do.

We turn it back to your insurance company.

Right, That's what I did.

And I'm being I'm being uh, she's probably done this before.

Right, So you just turn over the insurance company and they handle it.

They handle it, Dan, you have nothing to worry about.

My question is is that being that I got to I understand that, and I appreciate.

I appreciate that.

But being that I'm accused of all this stuff now that never that never took place.

If that is the case, do I have any recourse on this?

What do you mean like definmition, defamation?

Uh huh no, No, not at all.

The only thing that happens is going to happen is if she sues you after the fact and a settlement occurred and the lawyer is still involved in suing you.

That's abuse of process.

That's another issue.

He is abusing the legal process.

He's abusing the legal system.

To go after you now that it's already been settled.

You can't do that.

If I settle, let's say I owe you one thousand dollars, right, and we've elected to or we have negotiated five hundred dollars, and you write a contract, or you write a statement saying I hereby accept five hundred dollars as full and final settlement, and Dan doesn't owe me any more money.

Boom, money exchanges hands, signature happens, and then Dan sues me again.

You can't do that otherwise people would be suing forever, I mean ever and ever.

So she sues you, gets some money, Why don't we sue again.

Yeah, so you're fine, but it's not definitely and it's not.

Definite, and I just you know, a peace of mind.

I just want to let you know real quick that I watch your show every day and I appreciate your show.

Thank you have a diet.

I have a diet coke with me right now.

Yeah.

I hope that you do too every morning.

Yeah.

Actually I have water with me today because it's really depressing.

I know I'll get to my don't worry about it.

Yeah, I love it.

He listens.

If he knows I do diet coke, he listens, for sure.

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Chris, Hi, Chris, Welcome to handle.

All the law.

Yes, my friend works for the major retail.

It's in there for quite some time.

Well, the other day she was at work for an eight hour shift and when she came in, the management said that they're plumbing of both their toilets completely gone.

The plumber's there ripping out the pipes.

Okay, fine, well four hours.

Then she really really has to go.

So she's at the register and the manager said, go next door.

So she went next door to the grocery store.

No, no, to look back room.

She really had to go.

So she's running back and she didn't make it.

So now she's, Oh my god, I'm devastated.

I'm humiliated.

So she went in told the boss.

Boss said go home.

But now she has to go across the store to the to the break room and get her stuff and come back.

And she goes.

I would devastated, absolutely accumulated.

Well why can't if they know that they're going to be doing plumbing, why can't they get like one hundred dollars porter potty in the back, you know that the that the employees could use.

I don't understand.

Now she doesn't want to go.

She's supposed to go today.

I haven't I haven't called her yet, but she says she just wants to quit because of the humiliations.

All right, so let me ask you this.

Okay, Okay, I understand she's humiliated, so all she can do is sue for money.

All right, that's it.

You tell me you're sitting on a jury and hear you your friend is a plaintiff.

I peed my pants and I had to go across the store and people saw my pants were wet, and I've been humiliated.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury.

How much do you ask for?

She likes to work, But what you asked for?

I don't know.

To be your pants, I don't know.

You have to because that's what you're suing for.

I don't know.

Well, you have to because you're suing for money.

Well, she'd been lost if she feels like working, then lost a prospective revenue.

If she lost for how long?

I don't know.

Yeah, so say I would humiliated?

Does she say I planned on working there for twenty five years, and therefore I won twenty five years worth of salary.

What what does she ask for?

I don't know.

I don't know.

You know, I would think that a business would be no, no.

No, there's no no, you're right they should have done that.

I have no.

Problem with that.

Eight hours.

Okay, what do you think that's worth.

I don't know.

Yeah, well you have to because if you're sewing and they fixed and they fixed the bathroom and they shouldn't have uh, and she could have done a number of things.

What kind of retailer is it?

What do they sell?

I'm not getting you know, it's just regular.

It's it's a common retail store in California.

They're all do they have do they have towels?

Do they sell clothing?

Uh?

They sell just merchandise and stuff.

But no, tell whatever.

So it's just a regular retail.

That you would Well, there's a lot of things that are regular retail.

I mean a regular retail can sell phones, that's a regular retailer.

They can sell skateboards, that's a real a retailer.

It can be Costco that's a real tailor.

So what they show it's a.

Chain of these retail stores.

Okay, you want to tell me what what did they sell?

Because there's a there's a reason I'm asking.

Okay, office stuff, got.

It all right?

So I can't argue that they should have brought out a towel, they should have brought some clothing out and that, and they didn't do that.

Uh So I would argue, yeah, I want to pay it at least a day's wages.

But if you're talking about the humiliation for some for the fact that they didn't put up a porta potty, uh, that ain't gonna work.

And by the way, it's not the end of the world.

People pee their pants.

I've peed my pants.

Well I pants.

Well, good for you.

Congratulations, you haven't peed your pants.

Boy.

That is you're obviously a very wonderful human being.

Loopy Is that Loopy?

Is that really Luopy?

Is that your name or is that a nickname?

Yes, that's my name.

I mean that's your name name.

If I looked at your birth certificate or your driver's license, says loopy.

Oh Loope.

I'm sorry, I got a screener.

It's loop A.

I'm sorry, it's uh I see l O O p y And I'm going wait a minute.

Yeah, I'm thinking, wait a minute.

And I didn't go to loop A l U p E.

Got it?

Sorrycause I've been known for years.

Okay, got it all right?

Sorry about that.

That was boy you talk about you know, apples and ardworks on that one.

All right, So what can I do for you?

All right?

You're cutting out?

Loope, you're cutting out, Try moving or getting closer.

Okay you hear me?

Now that's better.

Okay, thank you, thank you.

I said, I ow property with a friend that I have known for many, many years.

My question is if you us joint tenants.

We own property, joint tenants.

We have savings accounts and checking accounts, all enjointed, you know, jointly.

If one of us dies, how can I be sure that the money goes to the to the to that person and not anyone else, because because it's.

Being held because Lupe is being held in joint tennancy.

You've done it all.

It's automatic.

It's automatic.

Yeah, whoever dies and whoever dies in a joint tendancy arrangement, the other side owns everything.

The joint accounts as well.

Account everything, everything is held in joint tenancy.

So the trick is you want you want your friend to die before you, that's important.

How the cars, anything is held in joint tenancy?

Anything, anything, everything, and the cars are not usually held in joint tendancy.

But uh, they're held in the names of two people.

Usually, I think you can hold them in joint.

I don't know about the car, but you know the cars are a different issue.

But it's going to be who's ever to see the other person gets it anyway, so you're fine.

I just you know, kill her if you have to.

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