These Winter Driving Tips From AAA May Save Your Life and Avoid An Accident. Severe weather can be both frightening and dangerous for automobile travel. Motorists should know the safety rules for dealing with winter road emergencies. Motorists need to be cautious while driving in adverse weather. The following winter driving tips are recommended: Avoid […]
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If someone has co-signed a debt of yours and you file for bankruptcy, your co-signer may be affected. That could be a parent, a sibling or friend whom you do not want to hurt. We need to consider the different impacts of the two main consumer bankruptcy chapters upon the co-signer. If you file in
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In a purchase transaction I handled last year, the new survey showed that the house being purchased was more than two feet onto the neighbor’s property. As a condition of proceeding with the closing, I required the seller to obtain a written easement from the neighbor permitting the encroachment to remain, running with the land.
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Most people are well aware from personal experience about landlord-tenant relationships. Parties enter into a written lease providing for payment of a monthly rent and security deposit and containing the rights and responsibilities of the parties during the tenancy. Then if a tenant fails to pay rent, the landlord may file an eviction action in the Special Civil
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A statute of limitations sets forth the time that a plaintiff has to file a lawsuit on his claim. These statutes vary from state to state. For example, a New Jersey personal injury victim generally has two years from the date of the accident to file a lawsuit, or is barred from making a claim
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Typically in a home purchase closing, the buyers sign a mortgage which gets recorded in the County Clerk’s Office, and the house is rarely sold without paying off the mortgage. The recent unpublished New Jersey District Court opinion in Gianninoto v. Sywilok gives us a look at what can happen when the mortgage is not
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If you are injured in an automobile accident, you are likely to have car insurance to cover your medical expenses. For other types of accidents, your health insurance coverage may pay those bills, particularly if you are using in network providers. Some accident victims may be enrolled in Medicare which will be the primary source
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In Chapter 13 cases, a confirmation hearing is a court hearing required by the Bankruptcy Code. Confirmation hearings are not held in Chapter 7 cases. The purpose of the confirmation hearing is to resolve any objection of the trustee, creditors and other parties to the debtor’s proposed Chapter 13 plan. If everyone is in agreement,
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A year after you close title to your new home, a process server delivers a foreclosure complaint to your door. You notice that your name is listed as a defendant as well as the name of your seller. You see that the plaintiff holds a mortgage on your home that is in default but you
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In New Jersey, in order to maintain a professional malpractice lawsuit, a plaintiff must provide an “affidavit of merit” to the defendant after filing suit. The affidavit of merit statute in part requires that, in any action seeking damages “resulting from an alleged act of malpractice or negligence by a licensed person in his profession
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