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For federal income tax purposes, the $100 is your gross income from self-employment and the fee is a deduction from that. I suspect that SSA uses the same approach. But either way your net income from self-employment is what SSA really cares about. You can read about how SSA does that in federal...

Some mortgage lenders won't go for an arrangement where the down payment is funded by some other debt. Doing that does increases the credit risk of the borrower over a simple cash downpayment because there is now a new debt that must be paid along with the mortgage. The other common...

Very few states have a gift tax. You can probably count them on one hand. Many states in the last decade have repealed their estate tax because the federal government took away the state death tax credit for the federal estate return that effectively resulted in the federal government paying...

Perhaps it's because I'm a skeptical person by nature, but I see the potential for abuse in these kinds of groups.

There are a lot of important facts to know before writing up a partnership agreement (or whatever the foundational document is for the type of business organization through which you will operate this business). In what country will the business be organized and what kind of business entity will...

I think you need a contract attorney to read the exact language of the contract and tell you how the state appellate courts ruled on similar cases (if indeed they have one come before the court). The problem I see with what you presented here is that there is potential ambiguity in the contract...

It may matter more than you think. If you don't do a good job with completing the gift tax return with the right information that can screw you later even though right now you think you'll never have to worry about actually paying federal gift and estate taxes. Consider, for example, that you...

If you think that then you'd be surprised what some people with money do. You may be giving the person too much credit for being prudent with the wealth he/she has. Just because a person has a lot of money doesn't mean they know squat about what to do with it or how to handle it. Especially if...

Your plan to give $18,000 to person A with the understanding that person A will then give it to Person B doesn't work. The tax law treats that as though you made a direct gift of $18,000 to Person B with the result that you will have made a total of $36,000 of gifts to Person B if all those...

The federal government only redacts from discovery those things that the law or the court requires. It does not blank out everything in a document unless the entire document is classified or privileged. The government won't even bother to submit an entirely redacted document as its own evidence...

That's a good idea, but most of those systems I've see show mostly what is ahead or behind the car and would not show someone standing on the side banging on it.

You can't force them to disband. But there are things you can do to get them to back off. If they are doing this stuff on private property have the property owner tell them to get off the property, that they are barred from returning, if they do they'll be cited for trespass. Things like...

A couple of things to note. First, the police do not need probable cause to stop you. They only need reasonable suspicion for that, which is not a very high standard. A failure to stop at a stop sign, expired registration, and a lot of other things the observes can provide the reasonable...

The way the post was written, it could be read 2 different ways. I initially thought, as you did, that it was 150,000 Indian rupees. But reading it again that's not actually clear. It could mean that what the Indian relative brought into the US was $150,000 worth of rupees. But that alone is not...

What you need to understand about most possession crimes is that you don't have to actually be carrying it on you to be guilty of the crime. It generally enough that you knew or should have known the illegal item was there and that you had access to it. When drugs are found in your car on a...

I didn't take any particular stance on George Soros in my post except to note that giving donations to favored candidates is not itself illegal and that those donations are not the same thing as what you stated: that Soros "appointed" those DAs. He did nothing of the sort. Not even close. Sure...

My condolences on the murder of your husband. I cannot personally attest how difficult that is emotionally as I've never been in that situation, but I do know it can be devastating. I hope you are getting whatever help you need to process your grief from this. Don't ignore your own health...

That tells me she is likely either (1) a very difficult person to deal with, (2) doesn't pay legal bills in a timely fashion, or (3) wants the attorneys to do things that would promote a crime or violate the ethics rules. There are all kinds of reasons why a client drops a lawyer or that a...

Soros does not nominate DAs nor did direct the hiring of the ADAs that work for them. He did provide a lot campaign donations to DA campaigns of progressive candidates. Nothing prevents conservatives from making similar donations to their favored candidates. If they choose not to go head to head...