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Do you know who/what I am? Yes, I am a law Librarian but more importantly, I am a s avior .  Well, not the S avior , but one of them, I suspect. At least that's what they lady told me the other day when I pulled a rabbit out of her hat.  That's right, a rabbit ! Seems lady was embroiled in a lawsuit.  Seems she had bought a piece of property from Guy. Seems Guy had previously sold the property to another Guy (we'll call him Guy1).  Guy1 bought the property but never recorded the deed.  Oops. For those not in the know, the duduk masalah with not recording the deed is that subsequent purchasers are not going to know whether there are any encumbrances on a property.   If you don't record the deed, there will be problems down the road. In this case, Guy sold the property (again - and fraudulently) to Lady who had done a title search but found nothing (because of Guy1 not recording his deed). Fast forward a few years and Guy1 pops up on the scene claiming tha

Do you dream when you sleep?   Have you ever had that dream that you had prepared for the biggest presentation of your life?  You have your charts and handouts all ready, you've ordered the freshest danishes and then...you showed up on the wrong day.  Oops. That's kinda how things went for one person/plaintiff I met the other day.   Seems they had been working on the same civil case for little over 6 years.  They went through hellish discovery . They went through hellish settlement conferences . They did hellish meet and confers . They repeatedly fought back the desire to kill opposing counsel for impinging their character over and over.   Then, when the end was in sight and a trial date was actually set, person misread the notice and appeared for trial on the wrong day.   Y ep, the trial was on Wednesday and plaintiff showed up on Thursday.  Oops! Had the judge simply dismissed the case , plaintiff could have just refiled and started over.  Yeeeeah, plaint

I don't know when it started but do you remember when they started putting pictures of missing children on milk cartons?   Of course, most people (and politicians) ignore those things until it's their kid on the carton and then they're all frantic -  running around the neighborhood posting pictures of their kids on everything. I remember one lady at the shopping mall frantically looking for her little girl who had gone missing.  The kid was found in a toy store, but the image of that mother's frantic face was seared on my brain. This, of course, leads us to today's news about an illegal (ooopsy, "undocumented") alien who walked into a Walmart in Louisiana wielding a machete seeking to kidnap children.  You heard right - kidnap children. Seems Billy Yoe Buidier-Herrera walked up to a woman with two children and informed her that if she did not cooperate (i.e. let him kidnap her children), that he would kill her.  A struggle subsequently ensued

Ain't love grand?  First there's the dating, Then the courtship, then the wedding, the wife thing, kids, house/mortgage, vacations, cars, clothes, in-laws and toys.  Lots and lots of toys.   Imagine, then, when a person gets divorced and one ex has more expendable "resources" than the other.  Imagine, then, when the kids come home from the ex who has more expendable resources and the kids are saying stuff like: Well, [the other] parent lets us stay up to midnight and buys us all the candy we can stand and takes to (pick the amusement part of your choice).   Yeah, it can make for a real nightmare.   This all brings us to our word of the month: DISNEYLAND PARENT .  According to Black's Law Dictionary , a DISNEYLAND PARENT is: A noncustodial parent who indulges his or her child with gifts and good times during visitation and leaves most or all disciplinary responsibilities to the other parent; esp., a noncustodial parent who provides luxuries that t