If my immigration attorney isn't doing a good job can I fire them?

Yes, you can always fire an attorney. There may be an issue however with getting a refund of your retainer or avoiding an outstanding or final...

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Can I get free consultation by email?

Without more information on what kind of case this is and what the legal and factual issues are, why you think it's "complicated if not impossible"...

If a 20 year old boy and a 16 year old girl both citizens of the us, go to visit Canada, have consensual sex?

Maybe under the "White-Slave Traffic Act, better known as the Mann Act" when they reenter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mann_Act j/k I assume not.

Step Parent Adoption Questions - Quite a Few!

You do need his consent to adopt if he could turn around and seek an order of filiation and some custody/visitation, but your story is a little...

When a house goes to partition can the other party seek money directly from me for expenses

Who is the "other party"? Your co-tenant or the other person(s) on the deed who are instituting or defending the partition action? A lender or...

My neighbor trimmed a line of 8 pine trees that the trunks are completely on my property. She did this while we were not home.

I would have a surveyor come out and locate the "monuments" which are usually under the corners of your property, they are usually buried pipes or...

Why does family court seem to go so quickly for some, and so slowly for others?

Mr. Zimmer is correct. I don't know about "celebrities", they may have more resources for attorneys, but I doubt many celebrities are looking for...

There's some semantics going on with "sole physical custody". If the Non-custodial parent gets ANY visitation or parenting time, that's also known...

I have a residential property right-of-way question

Yes, the property can have a deeded right of way, known as an "express easement" as well as "implied easements" such as an "easement by necessity"...

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Agree with both Messrs. Rothstein and Lutzky. But if you must try to DYI, note carefully the portion of CPLR 2214 cited by Mr. Rothstein...