Crazy cofounder paid themself out and won’t sign settlement agreement.

Your posting is internally inconsistent: file a new LLC and file as a dba. As the saying goes: "hope for the best, plan for the worst". Expect...

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Here is the site where you start: https://www.courts.ca.gov/selfhelp-smallclaims.htm?rdeLocaleAttr=en

A motion to strike the Answer as filed (since no motion to set aside default and since no verification.) The material false facts are irrelevant to...

I have used that system for years, and a responsive email saying something like "agree" will be deemed an "acceptance" of the terms of the agreement.

Suing a police department is unrealistic, complex, and expensive. If Bakersfield has a branch of the ACLU, or other civil rights organization -...

Although form SC 100 requests the phone number of the defendant, if you don't know it, enter "unknown" and see if the court will accept for filing....

I got a notice of a lawsuit for a payday loan that i got years ago what should i do?

Depends what "years ago" means. If more than two years after breach of an oral contract or if it means more than four years after breach of a...

Of course, details matter, but as a general rule the law favors competition and appreciates that having "grown" in one industry, when one changes...

I have lived in and practiced law in some of the most affluent areas of California and no one, not "nine figure millionaires", no one, uses land...