How much can I do under one fictitious business name?

The reason you might want a separate busines name for each endeavor is for marketing purposes, not legal ones. But you can advertise as "Joe's...

My girlfriend was terminated today. employer almost never gave appropriate rest or meal period

Mr. Kirschbaum is right. I would only add that the quality of proof she has for denial of meal breaks and rest breaks, as well as length of time...

I assume you are non-exempt (i.e. a wage employee) since you have shifts with set hours. If you are required to work more that 8 hours in a...

I loaned a friend 9300.00. He signed contract statn he would make 150 a week payments. Collatereled his truck. NO PA

It would be important how the contract is worded and how you secured your interest in the truck. Do you have the pink slip in your possession? In...

You need to read the code and rules of court more carefully. Whether or not the responses were late, you were required to "meet and confer" with...

My business partner & I created an idea together. Can he run off with the idea and create another business &cut me out legally?

As Mr. Doland said, such cases cannot be easily generalized. They are highly fact dependent. But to generalize, most ideas for a company are not...

Do I need a gaming license to make a for-fun-betting website that hands out non-cash prices?

Is the customer risking money? I.e. is he betting on the games? It would require some sort of license if it were legal. But it is not. However,...

I agree with the advice that it is illegal in California to secretly record coversations and they are inadmissible in court. We are among only a...

Our home is 80 years old. it was built on the property line.

Paradoxically, since he gave you permission for the past five years, no prescriptive easement could accrue durng that period. He gave you what...

Statement of damages question

No. You need to show, if it is questioned, that you served the Statement of Damages but that Statement is not a pleading.