Legal Rights Street Searches

Protecting your legal rights during a street search. One of the most common ways that people find themselves in court and in legal trouble is consenting to street searches, be it a physical pat down frisk on the street or searching you when you are asked to step out of a car. If you are asked permission, do not give it no matter what they say to you. They can say anything that they want to you to trick you into giving consent. They can boldface lie to you if they want.

Basically the cops are allowed to pat you down on the street looking for weapons to protect themselves from harm, obviously a little pot bud in a plastic baggie does not feel like a weapon.

If you find yourself in this situation remember the Golden Rule even for street searches. I understand my rights i have not done anything illegal and I want a lawyer present during questioning!

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New Health Care Law, What Next?

We have a new heath care law in the US and many are wondering how this is all going to shake out what does it really mean.  I think that if you went back to when the social security act was passed into law and when Medicaid legislation finally got approved that many were angry and many did not understand the law and why should they as they are not lawyers even the cheapest US lawyer can read and understand all of the clauses and sub clauses and large or uncommon words that are part of Legalize speak.  What is known is that as the decades have passed many will say that there are problems with these systems and there are but at the same time even being flawed that the end result of those new laws was on a whole a big leap forward for the citizens as a whole.

If you asked the question is there more crime today or more crime in the old west your concept of it would be flawed from the point of view that you are looking at it from if you live in a big city you would probably say today there is more crime and if you lived in a quiet bedroom community depending on how much news that you watch and read would be a large determinate of how you would vote yet the statistics would be the same and of course they wouldn't be the same either as I am sure that reporting was much different back then from what it is today.

I say on this new health care reform lets test drive it and see if it works or not but from our point of view here at Cheap Lawyers US something , anything needed to be done to fix the sad state of American Heath Care and the Insurance companies that are driving it.

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Cheapest Lawyer Tricks?

Yesterday the US House passed a law for health care and today the attorney generals from a bunch of US States are filing suit that it is unconstitutional, even in defeat they default to the cheapest lawyer tricks to try to get this process derailed.  We believe that this historic legislation is needed for many reasons.  One of the reasons that we are not hearing a lot about is that the USA has the highest cost for health care of any nation in the world , yet we do not rank at the top for quality of care. 

Why is this? Well a lot of it has to do with redundancy in the system inflating the cost, and the reason there is so much redundancy in the system is to make sure, not that the patient is getting the best care, but more to keep the ambulance chasing lawyers at bay.  If you have several expert opinions on any point, then it is harder to attack in court successfully, so the doctors are ordering every test and every procedure they can think of to protect their ass, not yours!

Hopefully, there will be some follow on legislation that will go after the trail lawyers and make it so that they have more skin in the game when they lose cases, so that the legal system goes after the gross mistakes but leaves the honest hard working doctors who use reasonable caution and good sense to their jobs to the best of their abilities, instead answering to the lawyers.

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USA Health Care Law Passes!

USA Health Care Law Passes!

For the USA, a historic vote in the US House, full of all the things controversial & messy, which make watching American politics so interesting for the rest of the world. The USA now moves into the 21st century with heath care finally being made affordable for the people. The insurance industry had to know, just like the bankers are going to find out, that you cannot buy legislation that is harmful to the US for a long period of time that will not suffer a reversal, which swings the pendulum far in the other direction.

Health Care reform was so needed to counter the for profit abuses of the insurance companies who would callously and routinely deny coverage to those that needed it desperately. Children that are born sick cannot be denied coverage anymore and those that get sick cannot be denied coverage. This law is huge as many were paying premiums for a long time and then when they got sick, the insurance companies would look for reasons to deny them coverage, or to end their coverage.

Also included were provisions that remove student aid from the US banks and takes it into the government. Pell grants really help low income people get a chance at the American dream by educating themselves.

Next up in the USA is new legislation for immigration reform, which shows the power that the Hispanic community is wielding today, as they exert their power to get things that help their communities.

Lawsuit MadoffwithmyMoney Family!

Their is a new lawsuit against the Madoff family members that were involved with the massive ponzi scheme that was the finical ruin of many investors who were seeking high returns and not doing their homework and checking out the investments. Normally a lawsuit against the government would be a waste of time do to laws that prevent the government from being sued but the lawyers that are bring the case seem to think that they have the legal grounds to make the SEC liable, which if they succeed would be a very interesting precedent.

The lawsuit seeks roughly 200 million dollars from the family members of Madeoffwithmymoney fame. they specifically are seeking 198,743,299 now if it was me I would have really tried hard to get that amount over 200 million instead of just 198,743,299 because 200 mil is a much bigger number, Lucky for Bernie's family that it was 1,256,701 otherwise this could have been a really serious case!

I really hope we get to see all of them in jail.

You know what is really funny is that the pictures that they use of Bernie make look like George Washington Makes cents when you are talking big money!

Wills, probate and lawyers

Will, probate and lawyers,  Believe it or not but some people have a fear of lawyers and as a result when they need one they often wait till they have all ready hurt their chances of getting the result that they might have gotten if they had taken action and contacted a lawyer earlier on in.



 For sure if there is a area that this is the most true is wills and the resulting probate, if you do not have one you are putting at risk your family’s assets from being ripped at from many different sources, including family members that you would have not directed those resources towards, exorbitant lawyers fees, and the state could end up with more of your wealth.  Once you are gone there is no going back and fixing it.



The real tragedy of this is that this is something that can be done for most estates very inexpensively with a form will, or a simple will that is prepared by a cheap lawyer. Another option is to have a paralegal draw up a simple will for you and have it checked by an attorney.



You can also do what is called a holographic will where you hand write what you want to happen when you are gone which works in some states but not all. There are some draw backs to this that you should talk to an lawyer about but in most cases you can do this in a simple consultation that should be relatively inexpensive.

Foreign Immigration Laws

Foreign immigration law Thailand 

I was researching something else and found this which  I found interesting just because of the fact that if you had a regualr social security check and wanted to immigrate to Thailand that you would not be able to as your monthly income would not be high enough according to the Thai immigration law.

How is that if you work all your life in the worlds most powerful country and when you retire you have to stay in USA because your labor if you were not lucky enough to get a pension which is most Americans these days.

When this was written the Thai baht was 33 to the USD in foreign exchange FOREX in Bangkok Thailand. I was doing the math works out to roughly 25K in the bank or just under  2 thousand a month. or a combination of both so if you had saving of around 10 thousand USD and a full SS check you would meet the requirements as I read it.

In the case of a retiree: permission will be granted for a period of not more than 1 year at a time, the following rules and conditions are guidelines for the Immigration Bureau to follow in granting foreigners permission to stay in the Kingdom of Thailand on a temporary basis.

1. The alien has obtained a temporary visa (NON-IM); and
2. The applicant is 50 years of age or over; and
3. Proof of income of not less than Baht 65,000 per month; or
4. Account deposit with a bank in Thailand of not less than Baht 800,000 as shown in bank account transactions for the past 3 months; or
5. Annual income plus bank account deposit totaling not less than Baht 800,000 as of the filing date of application
6. For an alien who entered Thailand before October 21, 1998 and continuously allowed to stay in the Kingdom as a retiree, the following shall apply:

•  He/she must be 60 years of age or over and has regular income. His/her bank account deposit shall not be less than Baht 200,000 a year and evidence of the account deposit for the previous 3 months must be shown; or he/she has a monthly income of not less than Baht 20,000.
• If he/she is under 60 years of age but not less than 55, the alien shall have regular income with a bank account deposit of not less than Baht 500,000 a year and evidence of the account deposit for the previous 3 months must be shown, or he/she has a monthly income of not less than Baht 50,000.