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Serving defendant out of country

The answer is not simple. The rules for serving a defendant in another country vary according to the laws of that other country. By way of illustration, in Switzerland (for example), if you try to serve someone with a summons and complaint without following the very specific rules applicable there, you may be committing a crime! You need legal advice respecting the law of the country in which you are trying to serve the defendant, and for that you need a lawyer. Not legal advice, just...

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How do i know if i have a good chance of winning a malpractice law suit?

How do you know if you have a good chance? Get competent legal advice from a lawyer who handles medical malpractice cases in North Carolina. Your relevant medical records will have to be reviewed by a physician, and probably also a radiologist, whom you will need to be able to state to a reasonable degree of medical certainty that the average practitioner who treated you should have been able to discern your fracture from the X-ray, and that the failure to do so proximately caused you harm....

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Is it okay for a paralegal to write a letter for one of my friends?

Nonlawyers can assist people in writing letters. There are lots of ghostwriters who help people to write. But people who are not lawyers cannot practice law, cannot give legal advice, and cannot represent people in court. You don't say what the letter is, or what it is for. I assume you want to use it in a legal proceeding, but I can't even evaluate whether such a letter would be admissible or have any legal effect, because you don't give us any facts to go on. In my experience many...

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If i own no stock in a corporation but am an officer that signed a personal guarentee, am i liable for the debt ?

The whole idea of a personal guarantee is that if the debtor defaults, the personal guarantor is on the hook. So if you personally guaranteed a debt, that means they can come after you, at least under general principles of law. Not legal advice, just my two cents on the facts you describe based on general principles of law. If you need legal advice, please consult a lawyer who holds California licensure. I don't hold California licensure and don't practice law in California. Good luck.

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Can someone use the name of a TradeMark for a Business name but just adding a letter extra ?

The purpose of trademark law is to provide assurances as to source, sponsorship or authorization. If there is a likelihood of confusion because a trademark is confusingly similar to another trademark, being used to market similar goods or services in the same geographic region, a court may enjoin the user of the confusingly similar trademark from its use. A mark which resembles another mark may also be objectionable because it "dilutes" the first mark, which may be associated in the public...

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Can a creditor deny me future services because I have filed for a Chapter 7 Bankruptcy?

I am not sure what you mean by "deny [you] services." You don't say who the creditor is, or what services they are denying you. The automatic stay under 11 U.S.C. section 362 generally operates to prevent creditors from taking steps to collect what you owe them while the stay is pending, although there are exceptions. In other words, the automatic stay stops creditors from suing you for a debt or calling to collect a debt from you. But that's a different matter than simply not extending...

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The fbi is accusing me of a crime i did not commit what do i do

Hire counsel immediately.

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I HAD A LIEN ON MY HOUSE WHICH HAS NOW BEEN FORCLOSED ON AND RESOLD DO I STILL OWE THIS OR SHOULD THEY HAVE USED THE LIEN?

The general principle of law is that when a home is foreclosed, the senior lienholders foreclose the junior lienholders' equity of redemption in the home. Here's the translation. Imagine that the bank gave a homeowner a $200,000 mortgage on a house that is now only worth $100,000. The bank recorded its mortgage in the land records at the time it gave the mortgage. Also imagine that there's a second mortgage of $25,000 which the homeowner took out two years later with another bank, also...

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Do I need a personal injury lawyer? international lawyer? or both??

You need an experienced litigator with a good handle on choice-of-law issues. That lawyer may make the determination of which forum to proceed in and what law to argue ought to apply. The question, "what law applies?" may depend upon which court is asked the question, and an experienced litigator who understands the importance of forum selection and choice of law will research the laws that potentially apply and identify which law best benefits his client. Not legal advice as I don't...

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If A Lawyer Fails To Answer A Question?

You can infer that he doesn't particularly care if you hire him or hire someone else.

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