Category: Law

Auto salvage laws were implemented as a measure against the operation of unsafe vehicles on the roadways and Mississippi car salvage laws are no different. Before you are able to drive a recycled car in Mississippi, you are required to make sure that you meet the requirements for inspection and insurance, which are set by the Department of Public Safety. Whether you are the owner of just one salvage car or you sell recycled cars for a living, you must ensure that these requirements are met, since failure to comply with the laws can result in penalties or fines being imposed. Below are a few of the requirements:

Salvage Title

All trucks and cars operated in the state of Mississippi should have a title under code 162 of the Mississippi Department of Public Safety (DPS). You can visit the nearest DPS office in order to get a title for your salvaged car and will be asked to provide your address, name and the identification number of the vehicle that is provided on the salvage title application. Additionally, be sure to provide information relating to the type of damage the car suffered.

Motor Vehicle Inspection

Section 63-1309 of Code 162 requires that salvage cars must be inspected at any authorized auto inspection service station in Mississippi before the car is allowed on the states roads. Ensure you take proof that the car has been repaired when you go to have the car inspected as well as photos of the car before the repair was done. Remember, your inspection has to be done within the district you reside so make your appointments accordingly.

Flood/Hail Damage

Mississippis Salvage Inspection Unit has a Bureau of Investigation, which asks that insurance companies make contact with the DPS before they take over the ownership of any car declared salvage. In addition, insurance companies are also required to title the salvage car in the companys name beforehand. Four photos showing the state of the car before repair is also required in this case. The title for cars suffering flood damage will be marked Flood Brand but for those with hail damage, the title will remain unmarked.

Selling the Car

The DPS Bureau of Investigations require that you inform the buyer that the purchase is a salvage car as this will stay a permanent part of the cars title history. This requirement will apply regardless of how the vehicle was damaged.

Family law cases are emotional and stressful. Changing support orders, obtaining move-away orders and custody agreements require a court hearing. If the case contains allegations of domestic violence, it is likely that these hearings will be longer and more frequent. The complexity of these cases many times makes it necessary to hire a Riverside divorce lawyer or Riverside domestic violence attorney.

**This article is not intended to serve as legal advice. If you are involved in a family law case, contact Deller Family Law to discuss the specifics of your situation. **

Modifying a child support or alimony order usually requires returning to court. A judge will not change the terms of a support agreement without evidence of a valid basis for the change. Individuals seeking to reduce the amount of support they pay will need to show a change in their ability to pay the amount or that the recipient is no longer in need of as much money. Individuals seeking to increase the amount of support will likely need to demonstrate that they are receiving less money than they need, that there is no other resource for additional funds and that they are legally eligible to receive additional support.

A move-away order permits a parent to leave the city or state of their current residence with the child that is the subject of a custody arrangement. This order is usually required when the move will take the child further from the other parent than is legally acceptable. In these cases, the individual seeking to move must demonstrate that a pressing need, such as acquiring a new or better job or being closer to family, requires the move. Because a move-away order changes the original custody arrangement, the childs parents will have to negotiate new custody terms. Many times, this negotiation cannot occur until after the court grants a parents request to move. This typically means that the parties would need to attend another hearing to obtain court approval of the new agreement.

Domestic violence in a divorce case is handled very seriously. If either party claims to have been the victim of domestic violence, a case could easily include a criminal hearing, injunctions and potentially even jail time for one of the parties. The severity of these penalties makes it necessary to hire a Riverside domestic violence attorney.

The complexity of modifying support orders and obtaining a move-away order usually makes acquiring legal representation essential to a successful suit. Gathering sufficient evidence of changed circumstances and presenting a clear, concise argument for why a support order should be modified are not easily accomplished without some understanding of the court system and applicable family laws.

There are many Riverside divorce and domestic violence lawyers, but not all are experienced or prepared to handle contentious, difficult or emotional cases. Deller Family Law has the expertise and resources required to handle divorce cases, domestic violence allegations and to arrange move-away orders. Contact Deller Family law today at (951) 680-9000 to discuss your case.

What is the most overlooked component of developing a law practice?

Many attorneys do not realize that attorney marketing is perhaps the most essential piece of developing a successful law practice. And unfortunately, until attorneys are clued in on what marketing their firm can do for them, they have little chance of success in the legal arena. This is true of even the most intelligent attorneys in the world – unless and until they learn to attract clients, their firm will not grow.

Of course it is important for attorneys to be familiar with the practice of law. Lawyers must understand the ins and outs of their chosen profession, and must also know how to put their clients at ease. But all of this is for nil unless they understand how to get clients in the door. And attorney marketing is precisely what attorneys need to do to get clients in their office.

Why is attorney marketing so overlooked?

It is really no wonder why attorney marketing is overlooked by a great number of lawyers. For starters, law schools rarely focus on this element of the legal profession. And without any formal training in attorney marketing, it is simple for lawyers to neglect this component of their business. But by remembering that a law practice is first and foremost a business, attorneys can get the right perspective on things and develop a successful marketing plan.

How can attorneys develop an attorney marketing campaign?

Just because attorneys do not receive a formal education in marketing does not mean that they are unable to successfully develop a marketing plan. Rather, it only means that they must seek out assistance from the professionals in the marketing profession. And just like clients rely on attorneys for valuable legal information, attorneys can rely on marketing professionals for assistance in developing a marketing plan.

Seeking assistance in developing an attorney marketing plan begins with looking in the right places. Attorneys should not rely on just any marketing agency to handle marketing. Instead, attorneys should seek out only those marketers that specialize in attorney marketing. The practice of law is a unique business that requires a unique approach to marketing. Finding the right marketing agency is critical to a law firm’s success.

Attorneys who rely on a marketing agency are bound for success.

When attorneys recruit the assistance of a marketing group, they avail themselves to many benefits. First of all, marketers who focus on attorney marketing understand just what it takes to take a law firm to the next level. By relying on proven strategies, attorneys will see a pronounced influx of clients.

In addition to attracting new clients, recruiting a marketing agency frees up more time for attorneys to focus on the clients that they already have. Attorneys are trained in the craft of practicing law and are best suited to focus their efforts in this regard. A marketing agency can handle the firm’s marketing campaign, and leave more time for the attorneys in the firm to practice law.

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Remember this little nugget of genius from Hollywood scholar Cameron Diaz during the 2004 election cycle? : “We have a voice now, and we’re not using it, and women have so much to lose. I mean, we could lose the right to our bodiesif you think that rape should be legal, then don’t vote.”

This was part of a rambling and obviously inane monologue Diaz gave on The Oprah Winfrey Show in 2004 as she plugged both Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle and John Kerry for POTUS. Pundits tried to defend her diatribe by saying she was expressing her support for Kerry’s pro-abortion views. How that translates into “legal rape,” I do not know. She should probably just stick to film scripts.

Well, Bush won after all that and rape still isn’t legal. In truth, it’s closer to being legal under Hollywood’s darling Obama six years later than it ever was under W.

In New Jersey last year, family court judge Joseph Charles ruled against a woman’s request for a restraining order against her ex-husband who she claimed sexually abused her. Judge Charles said he believed the man was behaving according to his Muslim beliefs, and that he didn’t have “the criminal desire to or intent to sexually assault” her.

The woman testified that her husband repeatedly forced her to have sex with him, telling her he could do anything he wanted to her because she was his wife and, as such, forced to submit. Judge Charles ruled that the husband’s behavior “was something that was consistent with his practices andnot prohibited.”

Here, Judge Charles indirectly referred to Sharia law, the sacred law of Islam and, Muslims believe, the direct will of Allah. According to Sharia, women are considered inferior to men, and as such have fewer rights. In fact, a woman counts as half a man in giving evidence in a court of law. A husband has the right and the duty, both morally and religiously, to beat his wives (yes, they practice polygamy) for disobedience or misbehavior, however weak the evidence may be. A woman does not have the right to choose her husband, where she will live, or the clothes she will wear. She also cannot travel freely unless accompanied by a male relative.

Under this law, women are never independent from the fathers, brothers, husbands, and other men in their families. One of the most common punishments for women for adultery or other misconduct is the horrific and primitive practice of public stoning, sometimes at the hands of family members. In short, Sharia maintains the extreme patriarchy of the Islamic world.

However, the feminist voices have been practically silent on this issue. It seems “legal rape” disappears as soon as a Democrat is in office. But as Judge Charles has demonstrated, this is not so.

While judges try to respect various belief systems, as Judge Charles did here, they risk condoning Sharia law in the United States. In fact, a law proposed in Oklahoma, which will be on the November ballot there, would ban judges from considering international or Sharia law in their rulings. The fact that the issue is even being considered should scare everyone. We can only hope that Oklahomans have the good sense to uphold this ban, because without it, Sharia law would be allowed in America’s courts.

Our autonomous justice system should not be considering international and Sharia law. That’s a sure first step to losing our sovereignty and becoming part of a global community with amorphous boundaries, which the left and Obama would enjoy more than we proud Americans can imagine or believe. If immigrants want to take advantage of all the God-given rights and freedoms we Americans enjoy, defended through the decades by brave men and women, they must accept that they are under the jurisdiction of our justice system based on equal rights. In fact, the primary catalyst of the liberation of Muslim women as well as the safeguarding of American sovereignty will be the obliteration of Sharia wherever it is practiced.

For most – if not all – of us, our path in life requires continual adjustment. There are things we want but don’t have. There are things we have but don’t want. And there are things we have that would be fine with a little alteration. For some, this process of course correction is natural and flowing. But for many of us, we grow impatient and/or discouraged.

Compounding our discomfort, law of attraction says that we attract into our lives more of what we focus on. When we focus on something we want, we attract more of that thing or condition. If we focus on a condition or thing we don’t want – a problem – we attract more of THAT thing or condition.

Unwanted situations will always come up whether we like it or not. The good news is that those things and conditions which are not to our liking are the birth of all creation. How would we ever know what we do want without the contrast of what we do not?

THE 3-STEP PROCESS

As humans in an attraction-based universe, we live in an endless, looping, 3-part creative cycle. A thing or condition we want to be different gives birth to a preference, the new preference then exists in our consciousness where it did not before, and finally we receive the new thing or allow the new condition into our experience.

When we’ve identified what we don’t want which happens constantly (step one), step two begins. We become aware of what we do want. We begin to notice things. If in step one we had the thought, “I want or need more money,” we might now begin to notice other people with money or things that cost money. What we now desire exists as a concept in our consciousness, but we don’t have it yet in our experience. How we feel about this new desire is our most valuable clue about how we are doing with step three. The better and more optimistic we feel, the better we are doing.

Step three is where the artistry of law of attraction really comes into play. This is where we receive the manifestation of what we’ve so far only summoned into our consciousness with the first two steps. Doing this takes allowing. By allowing, I mean the releasing of resistance.

RELEASING RESISTANCE

Even though it may not feel like we are resisting what we want, we are. For even in resisting the circumstance that we want to change, that same resistance is at work preventing us from receiving the thing we do want. Resistance is energy. When we focus in a resistant way, that energy is present in all areas for us.

Learning to release resistance can at first be counter-intuitive. We cannot release resistance directly. Attention given to anything, whether our intention is to get rid of the thing or summon it, causes MORE of that thing in our experience. To truly release resistance to a circumstance is a function of allowing the circumstance to exist and putting our focus on how we want things to be instead. However, there is a difference between focusing on how we want something to be and focusing on that it is not that way yet. How we feel about something is our indicator of allowance or resistance. The better it feels, the less resistance (and more allowance) is present.