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by | | Personal Injury |
This morning’s commute the traffic flow going into Boston Massachusetts was approximately 45 mph on Interstate 95. As happens very often in Boston traffic, all the cars in front of me came to a complete stop, except the car behind me. The car behind me hit me...
by | | Family Law |
I have joint legal custody of my 11-year-old son, with my ex-husband. The children live at my house with me. After the divorce was finalized I required the need of a babysitter to pick up my children at school twice a week and babysit for several hours. I contacted my...
by | | Bankruptcy, Family Law |
Me and my ex husband filed for Chapter 13 bankruptcy back in 2010, with a bankruptcy discharge in 2013. We got divorced in 2012, I gave him the house and signed over the quit claim deed in 2015. What happens if he sells the house and makes a profit, do I have a right...
by | | Bankruptcy |
As a bankruptcy lawyer I spent a good amount of time clarifying some preconceived notations that the general public have in regards to bankruptcy and often times a client is much more relaxed and less stressed out once they have an accurate idea of how the process...
by | | Bankruptcy |
In my practice as a bankruptcy lawyer at The Botelho Law Group I look at every potential client’s particular set of facts and analyze not only the different chapters of bankruptcy but also the alternatives to such. In Part I of this series I discussed debt settlement...
by | | Bankruptcy |
A large portion of my caseload at the Botelho Law Group deals with bankruptcy and consumers facing serious debt issues. Often times we turn to the Bankruptcy Court to achieve relief, but prior to doing so it is important to discuss with my clients the alternatives to...
by | | Eviction |
Today we filed a Fair Housing Complaint for an Hispanic Female tenant in Texas who believed her landlord, a non-Hispanic male, was refusing to make timely repairs, or repairs at all, to her unit. What many tenants fail to recognize is that the Fair Housing Act can...
by | | Family Law |
I have been divorced for 10 years and my daughters finally grown up and moving away to college. She has just turned 18 and is moving away to college this summer, and starting her college during the summer semester. Her grandparents are paying for college, so I...
by | | Eviction |
The landlord of the building that I live in has not paid his water bill to the city and the tenants have received notice that the water will be turned off as of March 1. I may pregnant single mother, seven months into my term of a high risk pregnancy and I’m...
by | | Family Law |
I have been married to my husband for the past 15 years, but the last four months we have been separated. During that time he has closed out his retirement plan from work and has withdrawn all the funds out of that account, with severe penalties. I will be seeking the...
by | | Eviction |
I have been renting an apartment for two years now, which ended up having mold growing it. My landlord hired a company to perform the mold removal and to repair any damages to the building that occurred due to the mold. During the time that the restoration company was...
by | | Discrimination |
Last Friday at approximately 9:30 AM while everyone was in a meeting, a supervisor of mine approach my workstation and sat on my desk. He proceeded to take out his phone and was showing me images of his family and random people that had nothing to do with my job or my...
by | | Family Law |
I have a friend who is in the middle of a child custody battle with the father of her children, he has physical custody at this time and the children are with him most of the time. My friend has been seeing this man who has record of being an excessive drinker. He has...
by | | Family Law |
I’m currently going through a divorce and a child custody battle with my wife. At this time I retained physical custody of our children and live in the home, because my wife has psychiatric issues. Over the last weekend while we were exchanging the children at a...
by | | Family Law |
I’m a stay-at-home mom and have been married to my husband for 25 years. I have raised our three children and the youngest is still only 12 years old. I’ve recently found out my husband was having an affair and want to divorce me for this other woman,...
by | | Family Law |
I have numerous records from the school that my ex has been keeping my child from school when it’s her week to have him. Just this year alone my son has had 15 unexcused days from school to unexcused days in school and 28 parties. He also has ADHD and she brought him...
by | | Family Law |
I have been married to my husband for 20 years, within that time he has worked for the state of Massachusetts and has a pension from his 30 years of working there. For the whole 20 years we were married, I was a homemaker and he was the breadwinner. Now that we are...
by | | Family Law |
I am a single mother and have recently broken up with the father of my child, what are my legal rights? Do I get automatic custody of my child? Do I get automatic child support? Do I have to go to court to get this and do I need a lawyer? ANSWER: Let certainly...
by | | Family Law |
Mother moved about one hour away further than she lives before, without court approval. We both have joint legal and physical custody. This is causing my child to have to move to a completely new school system, which my child is not want. The mother is also telling me...
by | | Eviction |
I have been living at my current residence for two years now, and never had any problems, but now they handle all my microwave is broken and my landlord refuses to fix it. Whose responsibility is it to fix an appliance in an apartment that you are renting and the...
by | | Family Law |
I have been married for 18 years and I am the mother of four children between the ages of 9 to 14 years old. I think me and my husband are going to get a divorce, because he has a very bad temper towards me and one of the children. Why automatically get to stay in the...
by | | Personal Injury |
I was driving the car and I had my seatbelt on, the car was a 2008 and I was in an automobile accident. In the accident the airbag failed to deploy, I know this because I hit the windshield and thereby didn’t go off. I also file a lawsuit directly against an...
by | | Discrimination |
I went to a local the chain store to purchase a firearm and I was asking the clerk about different firearms, as he knew more about them than I did. I explained the circumstances that I was purchasing it for my friend, would been in a car accident and was not able to...
by | | Eviction |
I was visiting Puerto Rico, because my mother was sick and I went to spend some time there to help my family with her and visit. When I returned home, the landlord had changed the locks on my apartment, left an eviction notice on the door and my belongings are still...
by | | Family Law |
I was married to my husband in Brazil, and we have decided to get a divorce. I live in the United States, and my husband has never been here, we were married in Brazil. We have no children of the marriage, and we have both decided that it’s best if we get...