Under the RCW 11.28.120, the persons entitled to letter looks reasonable to me. It started from the closest person in general and goes on. I believe out of all those individuals on the list, one of them will be able to serve in most case before it goes to the court to appoint a person to administer. However, I would probably add an extra individual called “significant others”. In these days, there are many couples whose been together for long time as husband and wife, but choose not to officially get marry. In such case, I think they might end up going to fall under suitable person appointed by the court. I think the court should add the “significant others” on the list, but they will need to prove to the court the relationship between decedent. …show more content…
I can agree with most part, but I have concern about persons who have been convicted of any felony. What happen when the spouse convicted a shoplift felony when he/she was young and already received punishment under the law? To me, it doesn’t sound fair to judge someone qualification of the role base on maybe a small mistake from the pass. Also, I think there should be some kind of standard or investigation to decedent’s family on moral turpitude. Since there is no a valid Will, I think the court should do a little bit more to appoint the right person on decedents
Yesterday, Sloan Jackson, age 18 was put on trial for stealing a shirt from Famous Fashions in Merchandise Mall. He supposedly ran out of the store with a lump (which was the same color as the stolen shirt) in his jacket to go to Record Mart because there was a big sale going on. He then was found sitting next to the yogurt stand and the shirt was found in a trash barrel near the yogurt stand. He then ran away from the security guard but he was in the end caught and brought back to the store to return the shirt. At the trial yesterday the jury came to a verdict of being guilty after talking in the jury room for about 10 minutes.
Together, they pored over clues and testimony. Gilbert says that she would send Reaves leads to follow up, but although he was sympathetic, nothing seemed to come of them. In 2002, a federal district court of appeals denied Willingham’s writ without even a hearing. “Now I start the last leg of my journey,” Willingham wrote to Gilbert. “Got to get things in order.”
Prosecutors and defense attorneys spent most of last Thursday morning in chambers with the judge regarding motions in the Mark Miller case. In some brief remarks in open court following the meeting, it appeared the case of the well-known Jasper attorney accused of taking as much as $2 million from clients will be heading to trial within the month unless a plea deal is reached. Senior Judge Richard Winegarden, who has handled all hearings in this case since Miller was arrested in June, granted a request by the prosecution to delay the trial from its original March 6 opening but made it plain he intends for it to start some time in March. Winegarden was assigned the case after all local judges recused themselves.
According to a article published through the Reno-Gazette Journal , on December 4th 2015, Andy Wirth won another fight despite the odds. The previous few years Andy Wirth spent hundreds of thousands of dollars trying to prevent his beloved Olympic Valley from falling pray to a movement led by Fred Ilfield , to incorporate Olympic Valley. Andy Wirth was relieved after California’s Local Agency Formation Commission denied the incorporation on the grounds that the incorporated town would not be financially viable. In truth Andy Wirth is no stranger to adversity and hardships, if he is not fighting Incorporation movements, he 's fighting to recover from a near fatal skydiving accident in October of 2013.
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Without testimony or affirmation of witnesses, parties must prove that they have a clear intent to marry each other, and can further prove their common law marriage existed by documents, such as joint income tax filing, joint names in car/home/health/life insurances, real (deeds, rental agreements) and personal properties, claims, court documents, children’s birth certificates, photgraphs, and various forms of documents available when couple subscribed their names which addressed themselves as husband and wife. Q. Discuss situations illustrated in your readings and explain the problems inherent in those scenarios. A. One of the most challenging element to prove a common law marriage is the clear intent to enter a valid marriage buy both parties, not just one party. As decided in Hargrave v. Duval-Couetil (777 N.W.2d 380), the Supreme Court of South Dakota concluded that to meet common law mariage requirements, the mutual agreement or declaration to marry would have to be more than an implicit agreement. In this case, the party failed to establish a clear intent to marry, and as a matter of law, Hargrave could not prove by clear and convining evidence that the couple entered into a valid comon law marriage.
COMES NOW, the Respondent, by and through the undersigned counsel, June Zhou, respectfully requests for a 15-day enlargement of time to submit the initial answers to the Wife’s petition and states the followings: 1. The Respondent retained the undersigned counsel today; 2. The Respondent only received a “Summon” and a draft of “Marital Settlement Agreement”, but did not have “Petition for Dissolution of Marriage”; 3. Without the Petition or Complaint, the Respondent would be unable to file his responses. 4.
My soon to be ex-wife Maria Luisa Paredes and I Arturo Paredes have purchased a burial plot under both of our names in the year 2003. I was informed by the Garden of Angels Cemetery that in cased I died before Maria the Cemetery would need Maria’s authorization so I can be allowed to be buried in the burial plot that we buy together. All I am asking to the court is for Maria to agree in writing that she will give her authorization to the Garden Angel Cemetery for my body to be buried in our burial plot in case I die before her. I also agree to give my authorization for Maria’s body to be burry in the case that she goes before me
3. Petitioner admits to the part of "The parties have acquired marital assets." and denies the rest allegation for want knowledge set forth in Paragraph 10 of the Petition. Petitioner strongly disagrees with Respondent’s claim to the marital residence. To this end, it is undisputed that marital funds were used to pay down the mortgage, and thus any appreciation in value is a marital asset subject to equitable distribution. Kaaa v. Kaaa, 58 So.3d 867 (Fla. 2010), Alternatively, even if there was no appreciation in value, when marital funds are used during the marriage to reduce the mortgage on non-marital property, the increase in
The courts must be able to form a clear idea of who has a beneficial interest in the trust or in other words it must be possible for the beneficiaries to exist. Lord Denning in Re Tucks Settlement stated, “Conceptual uncertainty arises where a testator or settlor … has not expressed himself clearly enough. He has used words which are too vague and indistinct for a court to apply.” Where there is ambiguity as to who the beneficiaries are the courts will have difficulty validating the
You Will Be The Judge Facts: The case involves a 12 year old child named Griffin Grimbly who told the teacher that he was beaten with a clothesline by his father Mr.Gimli. In court, the Mr.Gimli argued that he was devoted to Christian and was following the Biblical injunction on child rearing, “Spare the rod and spoil the child”, as well as arguing that s 43 of the criminal code gives parents the right to use “reasonable force” in disciplining their children. Issue: Is Mr. Grimbly is guilty of or not guilty of assault ? Held: Mr.Grimbly is guilty of assault.
A surviving spouse, child, or relative of the deceased must be present and monetary damages must have resulted from the victim's death. Financial damages recoverable in this type of lawsuit include medical, hospital, funeral, and burial expenses, compensation for pain and suffering, and losses to the kin, including loss of financial support from the deceased, loss of parental guiding and training, loss of companionship, and loss of service. An unfortunate side effect of wrongful death cases is that living family members must often jockey for control of the estate of the victim, oftentimes affecting the distribution of financial
When people think of a good judge they typically think of somebody who is fair, not bias and has some sort of experience. However, in today’s society, particularly in the United States, our judicial selection methods are not made to select judges on their ability to reason well and rule impartially (Carter and Burke, 6). On top of that, judges have no actual training before they become part of the judiciary. The only training they receive is in school when they are studying the law. Sometimes when they pursue an apprenticeship with a judge they also get a little bit more experience or insight into a judge’s job.
Some Selected Cases in Which Women Have Been Punished for Allegedly Failing to Protect Their Fetuses: 1 Some women are being locked up in jails or prisons: 1.1 A pregnant woman accidentally fell down a flight of stairs and is arrested on charges of attempted feticide. 1.2 A woman who had legally obtained the contraceptive: Provera and later had a miscarriage, is charged with murder. 1.3 A pregnant woman who attempted suicide and survives but because she lost the pregnancy, is charged with murder. 1.4 A woman is convicted of homicide by child abuse after she had had a stillbirth & it tested positive for an illegal drug.