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0 Answers | Asked in Real Estate Law and Landlord - Tenant for Kansas on
Q: I’m currently month to month, the company closed before my lease expired. Now I’m with a new company with no lease.

Am I still legally bound by original lease terms with new company I have no lease with. Am I obligated to pay another months rent if I move on the 3rd of the month? I gave notice & I’m moving out. Rent is due on the 1st, grace period to the 5th. How can I have a fair chance at getting deposit... View More

3 Answers | Asked in Immigration Law for Kansas on
Q: My wife is disabled and can’t work but she receives a ssI check monthly. Can she petition for my green card?
Yanky Perelmuter
Yanky Perelmuter
answered on Dec 18, 2024

Your wife can submit an immigrant petition on your behalf. The issue is going to be when you apply for a visa or adjustment of status. Will her income be sufficient to meet the requirements for an affidavit of support? If it is then you have no problem, otherwise you can obtain a joint sponsor if... View More

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0 Answers | Asked in Divorce for Kansas on
Q: Should I drop my lawyer? Will we still need to go to trial if I drop my lawyer?

Hired divorce lawyer. Sounds and I decided to settle and made an agreement that was sent to lawyer in October. Lawyer calls me day before court date on Dec 10 and states he’s still waiting on our agreement. I told him it was sent in October. He got upset and stated he never received it. We got... View More

0 Answers | Asked in Civil Litigation, Contracts, Personal Injury and Appeals / Appellate Law for Kansas on
Q: What case law 18 U.S.C. § 1589 examples prove cause to appeal eviction

Plaintiffs signed agreement to dismiss three evictions.

0 Answers | Asked in Criminal Law for Kansas on
Q: Can a lawyer continue to push back my trial date if I want a speedy trial because they haven’t been paid fully?

I’m on trial for something in the state of Mo it’s a class A felony and I’m wanting a speedy trial but I have not requested it because I’m scared my lawyer might walk away if I ask. I’ve been on house arrest for over a year now and had trial set for September 2024 but it got pushed back... View More

0 Answers | Asked in Criminal Law, Real Estate Law, Environmental and Municipal Law for Kansas on
Q: Can the city council and city code officer legally demolish my home because they think it's unfit to live in?

city of Baxter springs ks tore my home and also, my mom's home down and hauled away everything we owned including vehicles and everything inside and out. Destroyed trees grass, water sewer lines left a mess. There was no written complaints to our homes and property being a bother or eye sore.... View More

0 Answers | Asked in Libel & Slander, Civil Litigation and White Collar Crime for Kansas on
Q: Defamation Would this DEA agent fall under defamation of character?

John Doe was brought to trial by a DEA agent for alleged intent to distribute. 4 months before trial took place local news outlets somehow acquired information about the trial and John Does name was all over the news. Since said trial is over and settlement was reached to protect John Doe from... View More

0 Answers | Asked in Employment Law for Kansas on
Q: If hired for a commissioned based job in Kansas can they choose to pay you hourly instead?

Was hired as an Esthetician at a spa that was not yet open. I signed an offer letter to make 32% commission. They said they would pay me 12 dollars an hour while we were setting up and training. Once the spa opened the manager informed my co worker but never told me that we would keep making an... View More

0 Answers | Asked in Real Estate Law for Kansas on
Q: I have a commercial real estate lease I'm considering and the section regarding insurance is confusing so I need help.

We are asked to get insurance called 'special form property coverage', which covers any leasehold improvements in the premises that are removable by tenant and all of tenant's merchandise, equipment, appliances, furniture and personal property from time to time in, on or upon the... View More

0 Answers | Asked in Arbitration / Mediation Law, Consumer Law and Small Claims for Kansas on
Q: Can a dealer purchase our loan after we just won arbitration against them?

Recently won arbitration against them for failing to provide the title. We were told during this time by the financing company to stop making payments while in litigation. After arbitration the dealership purchased the loan and are demanding backed payments and late fees

0 Answers | Asked in Civil Rights for Kansas on
Q: I feel my sons right for violated. He’s a severely schizophrenic they said he was stable in court and I know he wasn’t.

he even pled guilty to all charges because he felt like he had to get back to the jail because it was being infiltrated. That was his delusion. He has many more. He even said that to the judge he ignored it his lawyer I’m sorry, but she wasn’t good at all, they have constantly sent him up to... View More

0 Answers | Asked in Traffic Tickets for Kansas on
Q: I was cited for going 44mph in. 25moh school zone, the officer was parked about 50yards before the end of school zone

, after school zone the mph is 40pmh.. he also wrote the wrong location of the violation, the address here notated on the ticket was a location about 2-3miles south of were I was stopped

0 Answers | Asked in DUI / DWI and Car Accidents for Kansas on
Q: How to prove my innocence?

My friend allowed a guy to drive her car, her in the passenger seat and I in the backseat behind the passenger seat.

I was intoxicated i.e. why I was backseat. Guy ran into a tree and wrapped the front end around it. I looked up and was confused to find there was nobody in the drivers... View More

0 Answers | Asked in Civil Rights for Kansas on
Q: What are my options? A LEO totally falsified his Police report and took my 3 kids i was adopting.

I proved that he was lying in court and won! OAH 24Y0003 Because of him and his lies my children were adopted to someone else and I will never see them again. I had these children for over 2 years. They were just 2 months, 1 and 2 when I got them. The biological parents signed over parental rights... View More

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