Archive for January 2010
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The Big Mistakes That Can Lose Your Case Done by Your Criminal Defense Attorney

California DUI attorneys and DUI defense lawyers throughout the country often lose drunk driving cases because of their own mistakes. This article lists those mistakes to be on the lookout for when going through your DUI case.These are some mistakes done by California DUI lawyers that can loose your case.1. Many DUI lawyers are too young and inexperienced to know the law and have the necessary skills to effectively represent a defendant. Many times the young attorneys fresh out of law school will immediately begin representing defendants by taking appointments from the public defender’s office.The unfortunate people who cannot afford to hire their own DUI attorney and get stuck with a new lawyer pay a steep price. While these attorneys are not given the most difficult cases such as sexual assault and murder cases, even the most basic disorderly conduct case can have difficult fact patterns and complex legal situations …

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How to See If Your Criminal Law Attorney Has the Qualities and Attributes Which You Want?

There are very many responsibilities that an attorney will take upon themselves, and based on those responsibilities they can be classified as different kinds of attorneys, criminal Law attorneys being one of them. A criminal law attorney is an attorney that deals with defining crime as well as handling them. There are a couple of things which are done by almost any branch of criminal law which can be listed as follows:Defining the victim, finding out who executes the crime, and naming the crime itself.Be aware of all the criminal procedures.In order to be effective when dealing with your case, the criminal lawyer has to know how to do all of the things mentioned above. He has to be aware of all the criminal procedures that have to be done in order for the case to be dealt with successfully. He has to be able to conduct trial periods and …

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The Foreclosure Crisis and Forgiven Debt – Relief at Last!

I’ve had a lot of clients worried about the foreclosure crisis lately. Clients who lost their homes are terrified of the tax repercussions of their once – expensive home selling for a pittance; then the mortgage lender turning around and issuing them a IRS Form 1099 for the forgiven debt. Imagine the horror– You’ve already lost your home to foreclosure- and now you have to pay thousands of dollars in taxes on the forgiven debt, too! The worst possible scenario!Do not despair– all is not lost. Congress signed the Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act in 2007 to help the millions of homeowners who are dealing with this crisis. The Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act allows homeowners to exclude the forgiven debt from their foreclosed home, and saves already distressed homeowners from the additional blow of forgiven debt on their tax return.Usually, debt that is forgiven or cancelled by a lender …

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