Recent content by Notalawyer1

Can you provide some advice regarding security in an escrow account? I and another individual have a single investment account (account holder and custodian) with funds invested (unequally) by both parties. We wish to close the account and divide the funds. But we wish to do this by placing...

Thank you again. For clarification, I asked about the publicly traded company, not the brokerage, which I pointed out had merged and no longer existed. I think we've gotten off track a bit. My question is not whether an old stock certificate is negotiable. Rather, can I with the company's...

Thank you for your quick response. You state that after three decades it is unreasonable to expect a publicly traded company to keep track of who their stockholders are. Yet, if that is the case, then wouldn't it be impossible for a company to identify who their major stockholders are and...

I’d like to ask for advice in recovering lost securities. Many years ago (1980-85) I invested in a publicly traded company. I purchased the stock through a discount brokerage (which subsequently merged with one, then another larger brokerage house). I took possession of the stock...

Would a 46 year old dyslexic woman who has been married for 25 years, for whom English is a second language and whose present English ability is survival English and cannot read any but the most basic English words, who has had minimal formal education and has no skills and no separate income...

Thank you all for your advice.

Thank you for your advice. The short answer to your question is that the funds were used by my parents for their personal use. There were no extended medical costs. Medical costs were all covered by the truck driver's insurance company. The original court documents indicate that the award...

Added note: Had I suspected wrongdoing at age 18, I would have pursued it. I was in college at the time, recently married and shortly after concerned with parenting my own children. Had I not stumbled upon the legal papers of 50 years ago in a old file, as I was helping my mother with her life...

No. The attorney acted appropriately, I believe. He placed my parents in charge of overseeing the funds until I reached age 18. I am disputing the misappropriation of funds that were awarded to me. That is, misappropriation by my parents.

Thank you both for your questions. (Sorry for the delay in responding.) My father is deceased, my mother is 82; and the State of residence at the time of the accident was New York State. My mother currently resides in Arizona where I also qualify as a resident, but I have spent considerable...

I am 60; I've just discovered embezzlement that occurred 50 years ago. I was seriously injured in a speeding truck vs bicycle accident and required many months of hospitalization to recover. A litigation ensued, an award was made in my favor and placed under the guardianship of my parents...