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Sorry Common,
I don’t practice that type of law, only family law, wills, trusts, real estate. No torts, medical malpractice, slips and falls. One son handles landlord/tenant issues but only in CT and MA, One daughter does adoptions, guardianships and elder law in CT, NY and FL.We don’t want to expand the practice area, but if some grandchild wants to come in and become an ambulance chaser, then Zaidy will probably finance it.
Mrs. CTL leases, I don’t. She wants a new car every three years and always under 100% warranty.
This past year she hasn’t driven due to Covid (only out of the house twice in a year for vaccines). So, my car has sat and I have put the mileage on her car. Otherwise we would be gifting the leasing company 15,000 miles of nonuse.
Right now used cars are super expensive. Very few new car sales this past year, chip shortages affecting production, so a lease may be a better deal than buying a late model car. Once supply catches up with demand, used car values may tank 30%/As the resident Divorce lawyer in the group let me pass a few comments.
Here in the USA, in addition to a get, most also go through a civil divorce. A case look up on the Judicial website will have names, dates, etc. Most other details are not available to the public.
Contrary to the public, most goyim don’t send singledom announcements (the bulk of my clientele is goyim). Even with a divorce rate of about 50% there is still shame and social stigma in a failed marriage.
As to hidden defects, an anecdote. 49 years ago, a female first cousin got married. In the Yichud room the boy took out a needle and shot up. The boy’s family had hid his heroin addiction. He lied and said it was insulin and his blood sugar was low from fasting. She knew better, you use insulin to bring down your blood sugar, not raise it. The officiant, ripped up the civil marriage license and never recorded it, she went home with her parents and a get was given promptly.
But it became knowledge that she had a bad experience and it took 10 years til she married again and has been married for 39 years. As for the boy, he left town and we never heard about him again.@CommonSaychel
I just read your comment about keeping discussions short when they cost $300-500 per hour.I currently have a female divorce client (not Jewish) who has been very talkative running up a large bill at a fee in excess of the numbers you posted. It is not unusual for upset clients to attempt to use their divorce lawyers as therapists, but this was really extreme.
Yesterday, she was sitting with her mother in the waiting room before our appointment. My granddaughter was at the reception desk and overheard the client’s mother telling her: ‘remember to bend CTL’s ear, your husband is stuck paying the lawyer according to your prenup, this will leave less money for him.’
My granddaughter shot me an email with the info before showing the client in. I attended to our business in 30 minutes. When the client attempted to stretch, I told her that she should hire a therapist, but she would not be running up my bill to harm her spouse. If she didn’t she could find a new attorney. She seemed shocked that I wasn’t interested in a bigger fee. I explained that I would not help her perpetrate a fraud. She shut her mouth and left, but stopped at the desk to make another appointment to sign papers next week.@Lamdan
I drink my coffee blackI only use disposable masks, so it’s not an issue.
Chances are I wont be leaving the compound, so probably wont have to wear a mask anyway. We have had our vaccinations already. No outsiders coming in who haven’t been here for months. Food orders already delivered with the exception of fresh milk coming right before the holiday and that will be left on the curb/contactless deliveryJust because the Goyim are about to celebrate Easter there is no reason to resurrect this dead horse.
The Trump Presidency is over. He is a loser and wasting time on him is ridiculous@always
Common Saychel and I actually agree on many things when politics, politicians and secular government is not involvedNot to sound morose…………………..
A burial plot for your resting place until t’chiat maytim. You eventual demise should not be a burden on your family or the community.
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Then, before anyone can give valid suggestions, you need to provide some information about your self.Single
Married
Children
Past having more children
Children to be educated
Children to be married off
Do live Chutz or in EY
If Chutz, do you plan on aliyah during your lifetime
Where you live is it cheaper to rent or own?Are you bankable?
So many coinsiderations that affect your possible RE investment
@AviK
Since this has already existed for approximately 2,000 years with Christians praying to pictures and statues of Yushke, I don’t think the figure of the generic Jew constitutes a problem.@UJM
Chances are the other spouse knows about under the table or schvaze gelt and will ask why it is not disclosed.
The Family court financial documents are sealed. they are not shared with IRS or CT Department of Revenue services.
A couple can supply tax returns and then a supplementary document with other income@UJM
Therapy costs money, many therapists accept insurance. In this age of Covid most sessions are by phone and the co-pay has been waived by the insurance companies.Here in CT one cannot get a court granted divorce unless the couple has had/counseling/therapy. In fact the court will provide counselors at no additional cost beyond the filing fee for those who don’t have insurance or cannot afford the counseling. Since those seeking divorce must provide the court with full financial disclosures (under penalty of perjury, including jail time) it is easy for the court to determine if free counseling should be offered.
As a family law practitioner I can tell you that many never overcome their problems and it has provided me a handsome living for decades.
That said, I try to discourage divorce when potential clients come to see me. One of the first things I tell them is to ‘uninvolve’ your families in your situation. The couple’s business, strife, etc. is not the business of siblings, parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins et. al. The more others know and interfere, the less likely that harmony can be achieved.
Discussions with a competent psychologist may be helpful, BUT not therapists advertising themselves as marriage counselors. Marriage counselors often suggest ending the marriage, not fixing the problems each party has that may be contributing to the disharmony.
@twisted
I agree completely about local, and as noted above, we generally bake our own matzo each year.
Mrs. CTL grew up in a family that owned a bakery and our oven for matzo was a gift from her family when we bought this home decades ago.
Until Covid, our Rav was always here for the baking and we hosted all the children from the shul each year on a Sunday for matzo baking. I know that Chabad and other groups set up such an experience using shul kitchens, but the children come away with matzo that is not Pesachdik. What they baked here could be used for their family Seder.This year we are baking for the family, the Rav is coming and will bake for his family as well (we both get our second vaccination tomorrow morning). But we’ll not have others in the compound this year.
@Always
The numbers you report are way off.
Fiscal year 2020 (as used by state governments ended June 30, 2020
Alaska fell 33.6% many times what you report via WSJ.
From the Pew Trusts:
“State highlights
A comparison of inflation-adjusted tax receipts reported for July 2019 through June 2020, the budget year for most states, with fiscal 2019 pre-pandemic totals shows:Among the 43 states in which tax revenue fell, four had declines greater than 10%: Alaska (-33.6%), North Dakota (-13.2%), Oregon (-12.3%), and California (-11.1%). Four had losses of less than 1%: Kentucky (-0.2%), Illinois (-0.4%), Wisconsin (-0.7%), and Tennessee (-0.9%). California’s drop excludes substantial income tax receipts that were delayed, although at least some of that money was applied retroactively to the state’s fiscal 2020 budget.
West Virginia (-8.7%) recorded its greatest percentage decline in at least 25 years. The state had flat to negative growth in all four quarters, but it also was missing its April income tax payments because of the filing delay.”@Always
The NYT article dealt in the aggregate a loss of less than 2% overall.If you read the article at axios dot com (we cannot post links here) you will find that TWENTY PER CENT of the states had loss of tax revenues between 5.6 and 40% in 2020 compared to 2019.
These 10 mostly red states, with Alaska suffering the largest percentage loss, will benefit most from the government aid provisions in the stimulus bill…and their Congressional delegations all voted no.
You won’t see Rick Santilus returning Florida’s share to Washington@Always
Not only don’t I mind this bill, I support it. I won’t be receiving a check but am in favor of helping those who need it.
I don’t mind paying taxes for the greater good. Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures. I am generally opposed to any public funds supporting religious schools and institutions, and the stimulus bill sends aid their way. But, I would not abandon the good the bill does, for the expenditures I personally oppose.
Last Friday, our town had a mass vaccination of educators, in addition to public school personnel they included all who work in the religious schools in our town. We want all the town’s children back in the classrooms as soon as possible, public and private.
IO have been notified that right after Pesach I will be attending my first live trail in a year. It is a child custody fight between grandparents (the parents signed away parental rights). By the trial date, the judge, both attorneys, all 4 grandparents, the court clerk and bailiff will have had both vaccinations and an additional 20 days. This is a beginning to return to normalcy. Family court judges have been reluctant to make these decisions by zoom, there is much to be observed from body language, etc in person that is easy to mask on Zoom.Contrary to opinions expressed here, many states did not collect full expected taxes in 2020. Not only are income withholding tax receipts down as people lost employment (2020 tax returns are not due yet, so we don’t know actual income tax receipts), BUT sales tax, meal tax, hotel tax and entertainment tax are all way off as people hunkered down during the pandemic.
Here, in CT, homeowners were allowed to defer property tax payments, which affects municipalities. Those local governments also benefit from the stimulus package.
B”H, Mrs. CTL and I don’t qualify for the checks, but we have tenants who are behind on rent who will receive the checks and may pay some back rent.
@Common
Fiat/Chrysler..now STLA
Tata Motors
Ford
GE
Boeing
Embraer
American Air
United
Spirit
Jet Blue
Delta
Home Depot..although I detest the founder’s politics
GPX
Starbucks
Kraft/Heinz because people are cooking at home, even goyim not eating out much
to name a fewMrs. CTL chose all the medical and biotech stocks, such as Moderna, Aztra zeneca. JNJ. Quest
B”H, we’re in good shape, my business prospered during the Pandemic, so we are taking profits and making up the tuition/fundraising shortfall in one of our grandchildren’s yeshivas.
I type this while taking a break from preparing my 2020 tax return, I yearn for a simple flat tax, these returns that can run in excess of a hundred pages are ridiculous
@Common
You post a lie,
President Biden had 10 Republican Senators into the White House to discuss/negotiate the bill. They weren’t interested in what 70+ percent of the American People wanted.Those 10 are 20% of the Republican Senators…………..
All are afraid of the trouble Trump may cause come reelection timeFlatbush is still in town, but the Dodgers have gone OOT
@Common
Thanks for sharing information that I already know.
JetBlue service to Florida from White Plains has existed for years.
It is of no use to me as it is all coach class service, although my grandchildren have used it when they would fly to visit us in Florida during the winter breaks.Years ago, when JetBlue started this service, they did not have use of the airbridges from gate to plane. Passengers had to walk outdoors in winter weather and up a long switchback ramp while carrying their oversized cabin baggage and young children. Not a pleasant experience…said my eldest and his wife who had to negotiate that with their two toddlers in a snowstorm. That said, I bought their shares at the height of the pandemic last spring (as I did with most American airlines, and industrials, as I had faith in a recovery) and they have more than doubled in value.
Thus, I am happy when their revenues rise, I just don’t fly them.CTRebbe
Flour and water, the ingredients sound the same bit they are not.
There are varieties of flour, and it is affected by soil and growing conditions.
Water varies greatly. The mineral content varies a great deal.Was it baled in electric, gas, coal or wood fired Ovens?
Here in the compound we’ expect to bake our annual load in our outdoor brick wood fired oven. As he has almost every year (not last year when we let no outsiders into the compound during the early stages of the pandemic) in the last 20, our Rav will be here to supervise and partake in the mixing, rolling, baking. We like thin and crisp and dark.
and before anyone comments, the preparation area and oven are covered with a high overhead tarp to deal with prohibitions of outdoor baking of matzo…not that they had indoor ovens in Mitzrayim and Sinai.
@Always
My flying time on business is working time. Coach class on a budget airline does not have the space and quiet conducive to my work. If I stay over in Florida it is in my own home, the client does not get a bill for food or lodging.
This is NOT bragging, as you surmise, but the reality of a law practice taking place in 4 states. Back in the good old days circa 1970, there were tables in First Class and you could sit two facing two and conduct business, or really spread out your work. No laptop computers then.
As I wind down my activity in my practice with generation 2 assuming more of the duties, I fly less and less, which suits me fine. Covid precluded our spending last or this winter in Florida as we had all the extended family in the compound since last March. I”H next winter we’ll be able to spend in Florida where the weather will benefit Mrs. CTL’s health.@always-ask-questions
Thanks, but no thanks, I would not be flying Spirit.
When I (alone) fly domestically, it’s First or Business (if no first is offered) and I am flying on business on the client’s tab.I used to fly AirTran Business class between White Plains and Florida every week, but when Southwest bought them, goodbye Business class, then goodbye White Plains. I was an AirTran stockholder so I made money on the sale.
At this stage of my life I am not going to be flying any of the Greyhounds of the air.If I fly with MrsCTL, or more of the family we use my NetJets membership (due to her medical issues, we don’t fly commercial).
I haven’t flown internationally in 13 months due to the Pandemic.
@nisht
READ MY PODSTR before tearing it apart falsely.
I was specific about Republicans in our very Roman Catholic Town.
As an attorney who has practiced local family law for more than 40 years, I am in our town’s probate court regularly. I see all the adoptions recorded, because the local probate court issues the new birth certificates with the adoptive parents info. In fact about 15 years ago I served 2 terms as Probate Court Judge.
Small town, 12,000 registered Republicans, I’m active in politics and have up to date voter lists, easy for my to verify whose adopting and it isn’t white Republicans.
Amy the judge is not local to Fairfield County Connecticut. I don’t care for many of her decisions on the Federal bench but approve of her adopting children. She lives her life according to her beliefs, I don’t want to live my life according to her beliefsI find it interesting that many of the articles in YWN recently complaining about banning, anti-frum behavior, general anti-semitism have been about the low cost, low service carriers such as Frontier and Spirit.
@RebEliezer
We also have 2 converted from birth adopted children (plus 5 Mrs. CTL birthed).Our big mouth local Republican acquaintances who are anti-abortion and anti-birth control (we live in a very Roman Catholic town..our Democratic Town Committee opposes these issues in the party platform) don/’t adopt. If 100K fertility treatments don’t work they remain childless, but they won’t take a non-white or non-pedigreed child into their families.
In fact 80% of adoptions processes by Catholic Family Services in our area are to Jewish adoptive parents.@Ayiddeshekup
Since we were born and raised in New Haven, my BIL recommends hunting rifles by Winchester, Mossberg or Marlin (all nice local companies).We both learned to shoot rifles in summer camp some 60 years ago or so, but neither has handled one since.
@ujm
The US Congress hasn’t passed a budget in years. The government functions on continuing resolutions. Trump even let the government shut down a number of times.So the Republicans don’t vote to fund the social programs in their proposed budgets every year.
BTW>>>>spending bills originate in the House, not the Senate, so for the past couple of years the proposed budgets that have not been passed are not ‘their’ (Republican).
@torahvalues
No we don’t ALL agree about Guns.
Both I and my Republican Brother-in law believe that no private citizen should own hand guns, and that hunting rifles/shot guns should only be legal in rural areas where some Americans hunt their food.
No American private citizen should be allowed to own semi-automatic or assault style guns/rifles.@Yaakov doe
They erected a golden statue of Stalin in Prague, it was urinating ion the Czech people. It was torn down.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
To quote two nice Jewish Boys (Simon and Garfunkel)
and the people came and prayed to the neon G-d they made…………………….How I wish Trump would finally be silent
@Torahvalues
I composed a lengthy reply full of direct quotes of his bigotry about 7 hours ago and submitted it.
Somehow it has never appeared in this thread.I can’t imagine you are wondering why.
@Common You have no Saychel
NP RADIO…one cannot watch Radio, so don’t say I do the impossible.
@Catchyourself
Thanks. I am not a watcher of Saturday Night Live or much television besides news, weather, business channels@Catchyourself
Sorry, I’ve never heard of Michael Che.
A quick Google search shows him to be a stand up comedian, not a talk radio host@CommonSaychel
I don’t agree that Rush was talented, he was an offensive bigot. Larry King overnight was entertaining.
I still listen to talk radio….NPR.
No right wing for me.@Gadolhadorah
At these hospital owned practices (in this case Yale) the doctors have no say in how the office runs, they are merely employees. My primary care physician has told us he cannot stand the office help and is forbidden to tell they what to do, how to do their jobs, etc.
He hates the system, I have more than once offered to set him up in private practice, rent free for the first five years in a building I bought that was medical offices. He told me that he was afraid of going in his own, as the insurance company search engines for ‘find a doctor’ show all the hospital owned practices first.
In the past 5 years every single one of our doctors has sold their practices to either Yale or Hartford Health. Mrs, CTL wanted to change her doctor to one affiliated with a small suburban hospital but was told he does not have admitting privileges in the New Haven and Bridgeport which are all owned by Yale or Hartford Health.@Gadolhardorah
You seemed to have missed the point ywnjudy is making. This vent is NOT about medical caregivers, but the self important clerical staffs in the medical offices.On Thursday my primary care physician telephoned me to discuss some test results. He suggested I see a specialist (in his same hospital owned practice) to follow up with a further procedure. He told me he’d transfer the call and I should tell them to book the appointment. He transferred the call and got off the line. after a few rings, a young sounding female picked up, gave the name of the doctor with whom I wished to make an appointment and said This is Liza. I gave my name, the name of my primary care physician and that he had transferred the call so an appointment could be made.
Her immediate reply, NOT MY JOB. No offer to transfer the call or suggest another extension and she disconnected me. I called the office manager and played my recording of the call with Liza. I suggested strongly that maybe Liza shouldn’t have any job that involved talking to patients. The office manager commiserated and told me all the young clerks were terrible, but during Covid, no one over 30 is interested in working in medical offices for fear of contracting the virus. The manager made the appointment.@The Shady Chareidi
Always so sure, always so wrong.
Cruz had not booked this trip in advance, the evidence has shown it was last minute. (per his wife’s text messages among other sources).
His children has an unexpected school break because of the 2weather/power/water issues. He tried/lied claiming an excuse to take them and deliver them to Cancun and come right back, despite reservations for returning days later.
Certainly, mama Cruz could have taken the girls to Cancun without his assistance, they are not babies.
Rafael Cruz, just another Hispanic fleeing America because of ICE. As a Canadian he surely could have handled snow and cold weather…born and raised in Calgary.May not be3 a topic in your city shul or yeshiva, but in our area it is a serious consideration.
Many of the buildings have installed solar electric panels. Not just for the savings on the utility bills, but to reduce CO2 emissions that affect our climate/environment.I agree with you completely with the proviso that the individual yeshivos MUST be in compliance with local health department requirements.
Israel has a national system and has vaccinated a much larger percentage of population. Thuis it can institute such a rule.
The US has a different system in each state and different groups are eligible for vaccinations at different times.
How in good conscious could yeshivos permanently ban returning avreichim who are coming from a state not yet vaccinating their age group?@Gadolhadorah
Very few banks left subject to Federal Regulations.
Every single CT bank that had the word National in its name when I was growing up, changed name and to state regulations only.
I can only find one Federal Savings and Loan left in my county and it is based at a defense contractor.@RebEliezer
Lakewhut is lying when saying President Biden will bring in 11 million illegal immigrants.
If they are already here the President is not bringing them in. If the rules are changes to allow entry they are not being brought in illegally.
I never used the word vote or voting. The headline Lakewhut chose for his post is a LIE.Lakewhut is busy posting LIES. What a surprise, NOT.
11 Million illegal immigrants are NOT being brought in by President Biden. He is proposing a pathway to citizenship for millions of immigrants who are already in the USA.IF, President Biden arranges it so additional immigrants can enter the USA, then those immigrants will NOT be illegal, they will enter legally.
Keep spewing lies and hate and xenophobia. That’s what led to the refusal and death of Jewish refugees such as those on the ST. Louis.
All of us (in America) should remember that our families were immigrants to this country, some did not enter legally. Were we saved from the army of the Tsar, pogroms, famine, the Shoah?
@Common Saychel
I have full respect for how you have chosen to live your life, to the full extent of my knowledge of your life. I know of no criminal or other behavior on your part that might change my opinion,
The fact that I may not agree with your political beliefs in no way alters my respect for your life style.Branch bank location decisions are subject to state approval/regulation. The change of administration in Washington has nothing to do with it.
Sorry for all the typos. my hands are not working well today
@UJM
I have no idea what locale you are in, but th3e opposite is the national trend.
My town in Southern Connecticut has lost 7 retail bank branches in the last 5 years (in a growing healthy town,
Chase Bank has cut hours and days in Fairfield County branches still open. HSBC withdrew from the market and CitiBank closed 90% of CT branches.
I am on both the Town and regional Economic Development Commission. The internet, mobile apps and now the Pandemic has destroyed most in person retail banking.I don’t know when I last used cash for anything. If I receive a chedk, I taker a picture with my iPhone and deposit it that way.
Mrs. CTL and I just bought a property and handled the mortgage 100% by email and used esign to close. No trip to the bank needed.There is an application at our P&Z Commission tomorrow evening to turn a closed bank branch (closed 5 years ago and no other bank wanted it) into a pharmacy with a drive thru lane. Our town doesn’t usually allow drive thru window at businesses, but this will pass. We have too many empty bank buildings.
Last month People’s United Bank announced they would not renew leases for their branches in CT Stop and Shop supermarkets, Lack of interest caused by change of shopping habits