Joseph T Ostrowski’s Answers

This is a tough question based on the limited information you have provided. You may want to contact a CPA or tax attorney. However, my information leads me to believe that if you contact the IRS they will be extremely helpful with helping you with this question. It may actually take a few phone calls one to present your tax question, to which they assign a project number and then a following-up call from the IRS. The IRS employs agents who are assigned to provide advisory opinions. If...

Something doesn't sound right. This is fishy, how could he access your email, you are right in the fact your computer was accessed or used. If you did nothing in this, as in receiving the shipment and keeping it, I would go to the police and file a police report. The 5-10 years in jail is nothing but speculation. Your friend is probably not a lawyer or a judge. Cover yourself and file a police report, however if this goes anywhere you are going to have to explain how your computer was used....

You could potentially buy it when it comes up for foreclosure sale. You may want to go ask your landlord if you can buy the property, it will salvage a loss for him if he can no longer afford the property. That is if anyone knows who actually owns the property. It can't hurt to ask. If he says "yes" he'll sell you the property I would suggest you speak with an attorney about how to purchase the home before it comes up for auction. Explore your options. Good luck.

Not sure of the specifics of your case but a dismissal without prejudice means the case (or affirmative defenses) can be refiled. As opposed to a dismissal with prejudice which means the defenses cannot be raise again. More information would have been helpful. Whose affirmative defenses were dismissed, the banks or yours. Good luck.

It should be fairly quick and simple. If you do not have children, information would lead me to indicate that you can separate without an agreement. Look at the County website under domestic relations or look at the Cuyahoga County web site and find domestic relations and it basically gives you a "do it yourself" ability. Good luck.

Absolutely, a female officer can search a male as long as nothing inappropriate occurred. Usually such an issue is brought up when a male officer searches a female. Police are given a ton of discretion and can search or pat-down males or females regardless of the police officer's gender for their safety. Sometimes a pat-down may feel like you are being groped, but anyone with law enforcement experience knows that people will hide things in a lot of places. Now once in custody, the rules...

Truth is the ultimate defense. You are also not a public figure. If they placed a notice of your arrest, they should be posting that the charges were dropped. You could ask him nicely in a letter to take the information down - or preferably a nice letter from an attorney asking the editor to take it down and threatening legal action potential legal action. What were the charges? Why was the cases dismissed. And why would it bring ridicule and harm to your kids? Who is going to look...

There is a good chance you may be in trouble, I am aware of an instance where a once legal immigrant got busted for drugs and had a child, but was not married and he was either deported or deported after he was convicted and will never be legally allowed back in the United States. Depending on the level of your probation and if even if your are a permanent resident (and if I am correct your stated your green card has expired) you are have a major immigration problem, having committed a...

You should get a good personal injury lawyer, maybe one who is a specialist in "slip & falls", he will have many theories of recovery for you, of which pain and suffering may be a consideration if you get to a jury. If the wood was "open and obvious" you may not have a case. You need a negligence analysis which comprises four essential elements which are: 1.) the store owed you a duty of care, 2.) the store breached that duty, 3.) the breach of the store's duty was a causally connected to...

Bring the property up to code ASAP. This problem will not go away until it's fixed.