What is the age with parental consent in kansas?
What is the age with parental consent in kansas?
Male: 14 – parental consent and/or permission of judge required
Female: 12 – parental consent and/or permission of judge required.
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What To Do About Your Harley Davidson Wobble: Expert Advice
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What To Do About Your Harley Davidson Wobble: Expert Advice
If you’re a Harley owner who has experienced what has become known as the Harley wobble and don’t know what to do; don’t worry – you’re not alone. Although owners haven’t had any success in having Harley correct the problem, there are things you can do.
Expert advice
Kevin Liebeck, a California attorney whose practice represents plaintiffs in personal injury, medical malpractice and products liability actions, offered the following advice to Harley owners:
Get an aftermarket fix kit. I would advise them to get one of the aftermarket fix kits for the bike. I can’t recommend a specific one over another, but can say that there is a wealth of information out there. Consumers can do a general Google search for ‘Harley Wobble’ and find a great deal of information about the problem and connect with others who have experienced it.
Save the bike after an accident. If someone has been in an accident due to this issue, one of the most important things to do is make sure that the motorcycle is saved as it will become evidence. This means that the motorcycle should not be taken apart, manipulated or distorted in any fashion. If you have been injured by this and if you plan to pursue compensation, it is going to be very important that the motorcycle is left in exactly the same condition as when the accident occurred.
Seek counsel. It’s also important to hire an attorney who has experience in this area of the law. A great deal of engineering and documentation go into these cases. It’s certainly not a good idea to hire the lawyer down the street who has an office in a local shopping center. You need somebody who has some experience with these issues and with product liability – especially vehicle product liability.
Liebeck says that it’s also important to know what types of injuries have resulted from the Harley wobble. He told us, “I’ve seen everything from road rash to amputations to death; effectively, any injury you’d get when being thrown off a motorcycle at high speeds. These types of injuries are generally very, very severe. They’re maiming, life-changing and in fact, life-ending in some instances.”
If you’ve been injured on a Harley Davidson motorcycle, contact an motorcycle accident attorney whose practice focuses in this area of the law. Consultations are free, without obligation and are strictly confidential.
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Dog Bite Lawsuits: Use Every Resource Available To You
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Dog Bite Lawsuits: Use Every Resource Available To You
When you’re involved in a dog bite, or any lawsuit, it’s important to use every resource that is available to you – including the representation of a qualified lawyer whose practice focuses on dog bites.
Overcoming insurance industry prejudices
One of the “unwritten rules” of the insurance industry is that insurance companies treat cases differently when an attorney is involved versus when policyholders represent themselves. Steve Recordon, a California attorney with nearly 30 years of experience whose practice represents individuals who have been injured by dog bites, explained:
Insurance companies absolutely handle cases differently when an attorney is involved. They’re used to dealing with people that try to represent themselves. We have a saying in the industry that ‘If you represent yourself, you have a fool for a client.’ You may say things that will end up coming back to hurt you. You may give a recorded statement to the insurance company and say the wrong things. You can actually say things that damage your case so severely that they’ll deny liability and not pay you anything.
Avoiding hourly fees
Recordon says that another benefit of having an attorney in these types of cases is that they work on a contingency fee basis. He explained, “What that means is you don’t have to pay them hourly. They wait until the case is resolved before they get paid and then take a percentage of the gross recovery. Resolving a case could be fairly quick, but it could take a substantial amount of time. During that time, you’re dealing with your lost wages and your medical bills. You probably don’t have the finances to pay an attorney hourly, so a contingency fee basis works well.”
Avoiding up front costs
Another thing that a dog bite attorney is going to do is advance all of the upfront costs. While those costs in dog bite cases aren’t generally as high as in other cases, it can easily add up to two, three or four thousand dollars – and that’s assuming that the case doesn’t go to trial. If it does, those costs could be substantially higher. Recordon says that, “What an experienced personal injury dog bite attorney is going to do is front those costs and wait until the case is over before he gets reimbursed for the money that he’s spent.”
Drawbacks of self-representation
There are many drawbacks of representing yourself in a dog bite case, as Recordon told us:
In many cases, the dog owner may not have insurance, so how is someone who’s been bitten by a dog going to get compensated for their injuries? Well, if they try to handle the case yourself, they’re probably not. An attorney is skilled in looking for assets, dealing with the individual dog owner, looking at the individual’s income, looking at the equity in a house, dealing with the financial side of someone who has no insurance and working out a proposal that ends up benefiting the dog bite victim a lot more than if he tried to represent himself.
If you’ve been injured due to a dog bite, contact an attorney whose practice focuses in this area of law to discuss your situation. Consultations are free, without obligation and are strictly confidential. To speak with an experienced attorney, please click here.
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Can I switch to a Chapter 7 bankruptcy after filing a Chapter 13?
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Can I switch to a Chapter 7 bankruptcy after filing a Chapter 13?
Yes, you can convert a Chapter 13 bankruptcy case to Chapter 7 bankruptcy at any time, for any reason. The typical reason for converting is that you cannot meet the obligations of your payment plan due to changed circumstances. You should be aware that in doing so you will lose some of your property. Furthermore, if you received a discharge in a Chapter 7 case filed within the six years preceding the filing date of the chapter 13 petition, you cannot receive a discharge in the converted case. There would not be much point in converting in that situation. In addition, be aware that any property you own at the date of the conversion belongs to your Chapter 7 estate; unless that property is exempt, the trustee will be able to take it and sell it for the benefit of your creditors. Moreover, you cannot avoid the qualifications for filing a Chapter 7 simply by converting a Chapter 13. You’ll need to meet the means testing requirements or the Court will refuse to convert the case.
(Reviewed 11.14.08)
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Do I keep something secret or patent it?
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Do I keep something secret or patent it?
That will depend on the specific facts and circumstances of your invention. For example, how long do you expect it will be commercially viable? If it you think the secret can remain secret for a long time and are confident that no one will be able to figure it out on their own, you may prefer to keep it as a trade secret. The formula for Coca-Cola was developed over 100 years ago, and it is still a trade secret. As patents have a limited duration, and are made public when they are issued if the inventor of Coca Cola had patented it, the patent protection would have run out long ago. Today anyone would be able to use the formula. Very often lawyers assist inventors in making choices between seeking to protect an invention with a patent or by relying on trade secret law. See the section on Trade Secret Law for more information.
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What are the typical types of lawsuits?
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What are the typical types of lawsuits?
The most typical are:
(1) Tort (typically “Negligence”) Actions:
A “tort” is a civil wrong. Say you were injured crossing a street by a driver speeding through the red light. You have incurred pain and suffering, medical and physical therapy expenses, and you missed work, using 20 days of sick leave. The driver’s insurance company offered to pay only the doctor bills and you are unsatisfied with the proposed settlement offer.
You can file a tort action against the negligent driver in an effort to recover for both the out-of-pocket costs and the physical or emotional injuries you suffered.
Tort-based lawsuits are frequently brought for injuries sustained as a result of negligence, defective products, medical malpractice, unsafe premises, unsafe products.
(2) Contract Actions:
You paid a supplier to deliver merchandise. The goods were defective. You want your money back. Or you paid a contractor to repair your leaky roof and after constantly badgering him to finish the job, hired someone else to do it. You want to “sue the tar out of him” but at least recover what it cost you to have someone else do the job. You can file a civil action claiming breach-of-contract.
(3) Actions:
The typical divorce and custody and support cases.
(4) Private nuisances:
The proverbial “neighbor’s dog incessantly howling day and night and the neighbor does nothing” story. You file a lawsuit to force you neighbor to do something about his/her howling mutt.
Although there are over a million of them filed each year in Federal Bankruptcy Court, bankruptcy matters are not really lawsuits. There is no plaintiff or defendant although there may be claims raised in Bankruptcy Court that resemble lawsuits.
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Nmnoparentalconsent – What is the age without parental consent in new mexico?
What is the age without parental consent in new mexico?
Male: 18
Female: 18
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What is the age with parental consent in arkansas?
What is the age with parental consent in arkansas?
Male: 17-younger parties may obtain license in case of pregnancy or birth of child. Younger parties may marry with parental consent and/or permission of judge
Female: 16–younger parties may obtain license in case of pregnancy or birth of child. Younger parties may marry with parental consent and/or permission of judge
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Fixing The Harley Wobble: Why Non-Harley After Market Kits Are Your Only Choice
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Fixing The Harley Wobble: Why Non-Harley After Market Kits Are Your Only Choice
If you own a Harley Davidson motorcycle and have experienced what has become known as the Harley wobble – a condition that causes the bike to sway and may increase your risk of injury – you may only be able to correct the problem using a non-Harley after market kit.
Harley Doesn’t Think There’s A Problem
While Harley Davidson doesn’t think there’s a problem with its bikes, many say that the most telling and obvious argument against Harley is that these after market kits exist. According to Kevin Liebeck, a California attorney whose practice represents plaintiffs in personal injury, medical malpractice and products liability actions, the company is aware of them, and in fact, has conducted internal tests of them. He told us, “These kits were specifically designed to fix the Harley wobble issue. They are designed to constrain the engine laterally so that you do not get this input – and they work. In fact, Cycle World tested one and their comment on it was kind of two-fold. One, this thing works really well, and two, why didn’t Harley do this?”
All you need are the right set of conditions
The problem isn’t something that necessarily occurs when somebody is being sporty or aggressive with the motorcycle, according to Liebeck. In fact, he says that this can sneak up and get you if the right (or possibly wrong) set of conditions exists when the rider is really completely blameless. He explained the idea behind Harley’s patented motor:
It is a very large displacement 2-cylinder motor that’s arranged in what’s called a V configuration. They’re called V-twins and one of the things about these motors is that they vibrate because of the cylinder timing. The cylinders fire 180 degrees from one another, so it creates a rather large amplitude vibration which can be very taxing on a rider – especially when riding long distances.
What Harley has done is try to isolate this vibration from the frame of the motorcycle. They’ve done that through rubber mounts wherein the engine of the motorcycle, the main mounting points – which are rubber with metal inserts that the motor bolts into and then it bolts into the frame. However, there’s no metal-to-metal connection between the engine and the frame of the motorcycle, really.
Pursuant to their patent, they’re supposed to use three links that rigidly constrain the motorcycle. One of the links constrains the motor in a vertical dimension, i.e., up and down; one of the links constrains the motor in a fore and aft dimension, i.e., from moving forwards or backwards in its mounts. The problem is that they’ve apparently left out a link to constrain it in a lateral dimension.
While the engine itself may not cause motion in a lateral vector, the swing arm is going to do that because when you load the swing arm side-to-side, it’s going to exert force in a lateral direction on this motor. It’s not constrained effectively to resist that and so the whole thing moves on its mounts and it doesn’t need to move a whole lot before you have an effective steering input to the rear of the motorcycle – especially at high speeds.
If you’ve been injured on a Harley Davidson motorcycle, contact an motorcycle accident attorney whose practice focuses in this area of the law. Consultations are free, without obligation and are strictly confidential.
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Dog Bite Injuries: How a Lawyer Can Help
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Dog Bite Injuries: How a Lawyer Can Help
Many people believe that dog bite injuries may not require the assistance of a qualified lawyer. In reality, nothing could be further from the truth. So, how can a qualified lawyer help? Read on.
Collecting valuable information
Steve Recordon, a California attorney with nearly 30 years of experience whose practice represents individuals who have been injured by dog bites, says that, in his experience, hiring an attorney right away in a dog bite case is very important because valuable witness information can be lost with the passing of time. He told us, “An experienced attorney can deal with witness statements, get the medical documentation together and verify lost wage information and other elements of damage – which can be daunting tasks in and of themselves. The attorney does this day in and day out and knows how to do it. He’s going to do a better job at it.”
Going toe to toe with insurance lawyers
Recordon also says that making sure you have someone on your side to go toe to toe with the insurance company’s lawyers is crucial. He explained:
One thing to bear in mind is that the insurance company, if there is one, will have an attorney on their side. So, it’s important that you are represented as well, so that the attorneys can deal with each other on that level – especially since the investigation starts immediately after the bite.
The adjustor is paid by the insurance company and they’re in business to make a profit. His job is to pay out as little as possible on a claim. Although the adjustor may seem really nice the victim may think that he or she will be treated fairly, the reality is that it’s a business and the adjustor is hired to do a job, which is paying out as little as possible. If that job is not done, it could get him fired.
So, they’re not there to do you a favor. They’re there to protect their own employer, which is the insurance company. An experienced attorney can also deal with witness statements, get the medical documentation together and verify lost wage information and other elements of damage – which can be daunting tasks in and of themselves. The attorney does this day in and day out and knows how to do it. He’s going to do a better job at it.
A common misconception
Dog bite victims often think that if they represent themselves, they’ll get more money in the end because they won’t have to pay an attorney. However, Recordon says that exactly the opposite is true.
What happens in reality is that when the insurance company is dealing with someone who’s not represented, the victim tends not to get anywhere close to the amount of money that they would net with an attorney’s representation. The difference in knowledge, putting the case together and preserving the evidence is huge. There’s just no way that someone who isn’t skilled, experienced and has handled these cases for many, many years can come anywhere close to getting the same net amount out of the insurance company.
If you’ve been injured due to a dog bite, contact an attorney whose practice focuses in this area of law to discuss your situation. Consultations are free, without obligation and are strictly confidential. To speak with an experienced attorney, please click here.
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