by Dennis Beaver | contracts, travel
October 27, 2006 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver In November, I was one of the organizers of a 40th high school reunion from an all girls school I attended when my family lived in Hong Kong. About 30 of us — now in our late 50’s or early...
by Dennis Beaver | consumer
November 9, 2006 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver We live in an older, very pretty part of town, with lots of mature trees — trees that need trimming fairly often. Both local and out of town tree service companies know this, and on what seems to be a...
by Dennis Beaver | auto insurance
May 31, 2006 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver We have all seen the television commercials for Allstate, Progressive, Geico and others. “We are here to protect you,” is their basic message, especially the extremely well done Allstate series of TV...
by Dennis Beaver | investment
May 19, 2008 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver “Can you tell me about the legal responsibility an accountant and broker have for steering clients into a real estate investment that made no sense at all in terms of the risks involved? My parents —...
by Dennis Beaver | landlord/tenant
May 12, 2008 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver Ken, a retired agricultural consultant who lives in “a place that is so hot in the summer only the scorpions are happy,” sent the following e-mail: “My grandson got an eviction notice that says...
by Dennis Beaver | property damage
May 5, 2008 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver “Mr. Beaver, I’ve been reading your articles in our paper here in Eureka, and have a question about trees and legal responsibility if someone on adjoining property is injured by one of my trees,”...
by Dennis Beaver | family law
March 26, 2007 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver Mr. Beaver, I am very concerned about my 17-year-old brother, Daniel. He was recently expelled from school for fighting and possession of marijuana, and his behavior has suddenly changed. He is very unpleasant,...