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Landlord is trying to charge a $250 "tenant at will fee"
New Hampshire does not impose many obligations on the landlord apart from the usual "clean and safe" requirements. There are no statutes limiting rent or fees, though there are some ...
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Landlord is trying to charge a $250 "tenant at will fee"
I am a landlord (and former renter) in Illinois so the laws may be different.
This 100% legal where I am at. The landlord is giving you 3 options: Sign the 12-month lease for X rate, Sign the at-will ...
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ARD ZDF - "Enforcement Letter"
The funding of public-service broadcasting in Germany was changed effective 2013-01-01. Under the current rules (Rundfunkbeitragsstaatsvertrag, in German), a monthly fee is to be paid for every single ...
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My attorney dropped me without reason
What do I do?
Promptly hire a new lawyer.
Dispute claims for fees to the extent that they were not earned or that no value was conferred.
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Can a US state pass/enforce a law stating that a group of people owe money to the state government?
There are a number of issues here. The question mentions:
Taxes, which I presume must be authorized and regulated by the US Constitution, but I don't know the details
Not exactly. The states ...
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Is laches an applicable defense for a debt that was never contractually agreed upon in writing?
The equitable defense of laches is not applied the same way in every jurisdiction. Some jurisdictions apply it only to equitable claims. Others also apply it to claims arising in law or by statute.
A ...
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ARD ZDF - "Enforcement Letter"
You seem to have a few misconception as to the GEZ fee:
whether you are a German citizen has no bearing on whether you need to pay
since 2013, it does not matter whether you have a TV, radio, ...
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ARD ZDF Deutschlandradio - deregistration
Even though as you found out calling is also sufficient, there is also a form available for this:
Abmeldung der Wohnung/en
One of the reasons listed is
Ich ziehe dauerhaft ins Ausland
(I am ...
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Partial payment of registration fee required?
To add to Nij's answer:
You write
I have not signed any paper document.
You seem to assume that a binding contract can only be entered into in writing. This is wrong.
In most countries (...
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Can a landlord/property change my unit after approval?
If you want to get out, and are willing to lose $270, you can not sign the lease and demand a return of your security deposit. You could ask for a return of the other fees as well, but you are less ...
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Why do laws that give penal fines or fees not specify that the amount be adjusted for inflation?
Australian jurisdictions have overcome this by setting fines in ”penalty units” - they then periodically revise how much a penalty unit is.
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Are government fees considered taxes?
with the new movement by some states to require voters to have
identification to vote, and the fact that no state I know of provides
free government issued ID (unless you are an employee) it seems ...
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Am i responsible for fees from FedEx i was not made aware of and did not agree to pay?
Online stores shipping stuff internationally usually include a clause in their Terms along the lines "buyer is responsible for all clearance/import fees and taxes".
What those fees and taxes ...
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Is laches an applicable defense for a debt that was never contractually agreed upon in writing?
Laches
Laches is an equitable defense. It therefore depends on there having been an unreasonable delay, which harmed the party asserting the defense. What is reasonable is determined by the court in ...
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Why do laws that give penal fines or fees not specify that the amount be adjusted for inflation?
The main reason is that there are very many computations of inflation rate. A legislature would have to decide on a specific method of computing inflation (for each fine), and would have to re-pass ...
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Lawyer billing the other party for writing a letter to them
As a matter of contract law it would not be possible to enforce a requirement to pay legal fees without agreement. You could easily see how this would be problematic: one could just draft letters to ...
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What is pro bono?
My understanding is that "for free" is simply "for free", but pro bono publico refers to a subset of free work aimed at certain recipients, specifically those unable to pay, or charitable, civic etc. ...
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ARD ZDF Deutschlandradio - deregistration
probably, now it can be done online via : https://www.rundfunkbeitrag.de/buergerinnen_und_buerger/formulare/abmelden/index_ger.html
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Will those in UK who have had court fees charged to them, now get it back?
The Howard League for Penal Reform, who I presume are well informed about the subject, issued a press release including the following:
“There remains the problem of people who have had the criminal ...
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Are government fees considered taxes?
Taxes are not defined in the US Constitution nor as a general term by any federal statute, but a tax is considered to be a government assessment on property and transactions (e.g. import, sale, ...
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Can a US state pass/enforce a law stating that a group of people owe money to the state government?
Yes. If you do not pay your water bill to a city water service, your business is isn't going to be serving beverages any time soon. It does cost money to provide these services and a lot of ...
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Do pro bono lawyers have to file that they represent a client to claim attorney client privilege?
There is no public place to “file” that. When privilege is claimed and the other side challenges it then the person claiming privilege needs to establish somehow that the attorney client relationship ...
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Does any other country, besides the US, employ something substantially different from the ‘loser pays’ system?
Fee Shifting In Various Jurisdictions
Spain (at least as of 1984) has rules on fee shifting (or the lack thereof) very similar to the American rule. The other countries of the E.U. (as of 1984) had ...
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Can our HOA require us to help purchase unused properties in our subdivision?
Am I required to help purchase this property for the HOA?
Your HOA (homeowner's association) can do what it governing documents permit it to do. It is highly unlikely that there is a statutory ...
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Is it legal for a law firm or some company to bill a client for a report on substantiated expenses if the client were to ask for that information?
The analysis is different for law firms and lawyers, who have an ethical obligation to charge "reasonable fees" (in the U.S. pursuant to various versions of Rule of Professional Conduct 1.5) ...
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How to verify validity of a notarized document or a document issued by means of Apostille
Short Answer
You need to go state by state.
States regulate notaries and apostilles
In the U.S., notaries are empowered and regulated at the state level. (I don't believe there is a such thing as ...
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