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.
When you and your lawyer negotiate a settlement amount for your child’s personal injury case, the hard part is over, but you are not finished. Because the injured party is a child, the settlement money belongs to them. The court system seeks to protect the child’s interests with regard to those funds.
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.
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 Part of the Superior Court.
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.
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 thereafter.
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 do not recognize that lender as anyone that you have done business with. You know that you are up to date with your mortgage payments.
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, the case is confirmed. If there is an unresolved objection to the plan by any party, a confirmation hearing will be held in order for the judge to address and rule on the party’s concerns.
