California Code of Civil Procedure Section 96 states: (c) A statement responding to the request shall be served within 20 days from the service of...

Can my wife get in trouble for opening a credit card in my name while I was incarcerated. Even though I gave her consent to do s

If your wife had your permission to open accounts in your name, it would be hard for anyone to argue that she committed identity theft or fraud. ...

It sounds like you received federal student loans, and defaulted on the loans at some point (possibly decades ago). If that's the case, the...

Will I be able cash it since it written in the estate and my mom's name? Should I open a new acct. for this check?

You need an attorney that handles probate and estate issues. Provide the trust documents to the probate attorney to get an explanation of where...

What legal options do I have if I discovered my Student Loan Master Promissory Note was altered?

Your "legal options" depend on the legal/procedural status of this loan. If you were sued, and a "fake" or altered note was produced in that case,...

Do I need to respond to a Discovery request from a Lawyer?

It sounds like you received a letter asking for your overdue responses to discovery. If that's the case, here's what you do: first, call the...

A typical Identity Theft case is where a victim's name and Social Security Number (SSN) is used by someone else to obtain goods, services or...

My Summons/Complaint filed in the correct county bu wrong civil courthouse, how do I get this changed ?

Contact the court clerk about this. I do not think that the location where the complaint is filed determines where the case will end up (what...

What are my legal options?

First of all, file a Claim of Exemption to protect some of the funds in that account. You can exempt 75 per cent of wages that were received...

Do you think "breach of fiduciary duty" is a suitable counterclaim against my former attorney, given this misconduct?

Breach of fiduciary duty would be where the attorney/fiduciary misused funds belonging to the client, or didn't act ethically with respect to those...