Archive for May 2019

From The Business of Life section of How You Can Avoid Legal Land Mines by Joseph S. Lyles (2003) If you have any friends or relatives, they will come to your residence sooner or later, or if you have children then undoubtedly their friends will come over to play. Statistically, you can be certain that…

From The Business of Life section of How You Can Avoid Legal Land Mines by Joseph S. Lyles (2003) Regardless of your views on the morality of living with someone, there are legal land mines in your path if you live with someone without the legal status of marriage. The biggest problem with such a…

From Strictly Legal section of How You Can Avoid Legal Land Mines by Joseph S. Lyles (2003) Over the years, I’ve had many people contact me because they were mad at their lawyers. Usually, after investigating the situation, I found that the main problem was a lack of communication. I then recommended that the client…

From Strictly Legal section of How You Can Avoid Legal Land Mines by Joseph S. Lyles (2003) Many people like to make transactions in cash. Cash is easy to use and, of course, easy to hide. It never bounces like a check, and it doesn’t have to go through the banking system before you can…

From Strictly Legal section of How You Can Avoid Legal Land Mines by Joseph S. Lyles (2003) Many people think that if they ignore a problem, it will just go away. That isn’t the case with traffic tickets. In this era of computers, the government keeps track of traffic tickets efficiently and they don’t just…

From Strictly Legal section of How You Can Avoid Legal Land Mines by Joseph S. Lyles (2003) When you or your lawyer are working to solve a legal problem there are two basic ingredients you need: first, you need the relevant facts; second, you need the relevant law. Your most important source for these ingredients…

From Strictly Legal section of How You Can Avoid Legal Land Mines by Joseph S. Lyles (2003) Our legal system developed from the legal system of England, which came across the Atlantic with the colonists from the British Isles. Much of the law was case law (also called common law) which was derived from written…

From Strictly Legal section of How You Can Avoid Legal Land Mines by Joseph S. Lyles (2003) Getting legal advice is like getting preventative care on your car: if you do it now, you are less likely to have a big problem to fix later. Unfortunately, too many people try to solve their legal problems…