by Dennis Beaver | divorce, lawyers
January 27, 2017 • By Dennis Beaver “I am going through a horrible divorce,” Kim’s email began, “and the meet and confer session at my lawyer’s office was a nightmare. We were all supposed to discuss a possible settlement of property, child custody issues, exchange...
by Dennis Beaver | business, weather
January 23, 2017 • By Dennis Beaver If you have more than a passing interest in the weather and are thinking of starting your own business, then “Treading on Thin Air” by Dr. Elizabeth Austin will be a great read. Published by Pegasus Books in April of 2016, every...
by Dennis Beaver | advertising, lawyers, settlement
January 17, 2017 • By Dennis Beaver “You have a reader on the phone who has a deposition scheduled for next week and cannot reach his lawyer. Apparently, they have never met in person.” With that announcement from my paralegal, I immediately took the call, and spoke...
by Dennis Beaver | judges, small claims court
January 9, 2017 • By Dennis Beaver Today’s story will be of special interest to anyone headed to Small Claims Court, and we begin with this question: “When the judge’s decision is 100 percent wrong — totally and completely wrong on the law — so as to make you wonder...
by Dennis Beaver | dui - drunk driving, ethics, lawyers
January 2, 2017 • By Dennis Beaver If arrested for DUI, will hiring a lawyer who specializes in drunk driving change the outcome? If it’s your first, do you need an attorney to obtain a favorable plea-bargain offer from the DA? Finally, if tempted to hire someone...
by Dennis Beaver | real estate, scam
December 27, 2016 • By Dennis Beaver They’re back! Free home-flipping seminars are back, and as we wrote slightly more than two years ago, most score high on our Scam-O-Meter, having a single goal: separating the often desperate, generally naive and trusting from...
by Dennis Beaver | auto insurance, insurance claim, lawyers, personal injury
December 24, 2016 • By Dennis Beaver Contrary to the many television commercials from nasty looking lawyers who shout, “We Fight for You,” and claim that everyone in an auto accident needs to call them, in reality, not every auto accident case requires hiring a...
by Dennis Beaver | consumer, smoke alarm, technology
December 10, 2016 • By Dennis Beaver No doubt you’ve got a smoke alarm somewhere in your house or apartment, but do you know where they need to be placed or how many you should have? Try this test of your smoke alarm knowledge: 1. By 1975, most states required one...
by Dennis Beaver | auto insurance
December 6, 2016 • By Dennis Beaver July 31: Neil Williams, former publisher of the Hanford Sentinel, and his wife are involved in an auto accident when a driver made an unsafe left turn, crashing into them. He immediately reports the accident to his own auto...
