California Recent Legal Answers from Lawyers

Hello!  You should contact your landlord and file a complaint with your landlord.  You have a right to enjoy your home.  Also, it's illegal to smoke indoors in CA.  Your best option is to review your lease and take the issue up with your landlord.  You may also want to consult with a real estate attorney well versed in landlord-tenant law.  Good luck!   This answer is not legal advice and no attorney-client relationship is formed by the answer provided here.... Read More

First of all, you need to contest the petition in that he should not get "custody."  Secondly, he does probably have visitation rights.  You have not explained how the baby would not be safe.  The court can grant that visitation but only if there is a monitor (either personal monitor or hired monitor) who watches over the visitation if you can prove that he is dangerous to the baby.  There is not enough facts to give you a definite answer.... Read More

Your wife has a lead on you to getting US citizenship as she is already a permanent resident and it will take you approximately one year to obtain your permanent residence if all goes well. She is eligible five years from the date that she received permanent residence, and you will likely be eligible five years after the one year or so that it will take you to become a green card holder if all goes well. The math does not allow you to take advantage of the fact that you are eligible for naturalization after your wife has become a citizen for three years. That would take longer than the regular projected timeline. Due to the limitations of the Lawyers.com Forums, Alan Lee & Arthur Lee, Esqs.’ (the "Firm") participation in responding to questions posted herein does not constitute legal advice, nor legal representation of the person or entity posting a question. No Attorney/Client relationship is or shall be construed to be created hereby. The information provided herein by the Firm is general, and requires that the poster obtain specific legal advice from an attorney. The poster shall not rely upon the information provided herein as legal advice nor as the basis for making any decisions of legal consequence.... Read More

A L-1 visa is for intracompany transferees who are transferred from a parent, subsidiary, or affiliate organization to one of the three types of organizations in the US. If you have one of these types of organizations in Algeria which is doing okay, you may be eligible to transfer yourself over under the L-1 visa. Usually the overseas organization has reasonable sales, revenue, and employees. An example would be an overseas company having 75 workers and annual sales of $5 million. Please note that you also have to demonstrate that you have been employed in the qualifying overseas organization for one of the past three years before filing as an executive, manager, or person of specialized knowledge. Good luck. Due to the limitations of the Lawyers.com Forums, Alan Lee & Arthur Lee, Esqs.’ (the "Firm") participation in responding to questions posted herein does not constitute legal advice, nor legal representation of the person or entity posting a question. No Attorney/Client relationship is or shall be construed to be created hereby. The information provided herein by the Firm is general, and requires that the poster obtain specific legal advice from an attorney. The poster shall not rely upon the information provided herein as legal advice nor as the basis for making any decisions of legal consequence.... Read More

There are probably three levels to this question. The first is whether you are eligible for adjustment of status. For a person with F-11 visa preference as the unmarried son or daughter over the age of 21 of a US citizen, the priority date under the monthly dates of filing chart of the Department of State would generally have to be current. In the month of July 2021, for example, only persons born in any country except Mexico and the Philippines who filed F-11 I-130 petitions before 5/15/16 are eligible to file I-485 applications. Besides priority date qualification, you also could not have been illegal or worked without authorization except under certain circumstances. Assuming that you did qualify under the F-11 category for filing, the second level is whether your application would be rejected upon the discovery of the mistake. The third level is that assuming it is filed and not rejected, whether the adjudicating officer would see it as a technical error having nothing to do with your eligibility for permanent residence and let the mistake pass, send out a request for evidence, or deny the application. (If it comes to this stage, I believe that a reasonable officer would allow you to correct the category under which you are immigrating). Due to the limitations of the Lawyers.com Forums, Alan Lee & Arthur Lee, Esqs.’ (the "Firm") participation in responding to questions posted herein does not constitute legal advice, nor legal representation of the person or entity posting a question. No Attorney/Client relationship is or shall be construed to be created hereby. The information provided herein by the Firm is general, and requires that the poster obtain specific legal advice from an attorney. The poster shall not rely upon the information provided herein as legal advice nor as the basis for making any decisions of legal consequence.... Read More

Uploading or sharing sexual photos or videos of another person without their permission is a crime.  If they do this, you should contact the police.  However, I always caution people not to enter the legal arena without speaking with an attorney first to avoid any unintended consequences.   You may want to consider hiring a lawyer to send a Cease and Desist letter.  While a cease-and-desist letter has little legal impact, the lawyer's letterhead gets the recipient’s attention.   This is a relatively inexpensive way to put the person on notice that you are not going to let these actions continue and that you are serious about pursuing your legal remedies and getting your pictures of his electronics.  It also tells the person that they could get in legal hot water which will cost them a lot of legal fees if nothing else.  This will often convince them to stop their evil ways.    ... Read More