Two recent trends in California have dramatically altered the landscape of “Landlord/Tenant Relationship”; specifically evictions. The first is the skyrocketing real estate market. The second is the rise of ‘room share’ applications like AirBnB and VRBO. What this means is that there is money to be made and both sides, and owners and renters are […]
A recent article in the New York Times by Jennifer Medina on California labor issues (found here) prompted a question. Do you know where your state stands in regards to labor laws? Not all states are equal. In fact, nationwide, there is significant variation between labor heavy regulations and those that favor the employer. Laws […]
At Jurisco, Injunction Bonds in California, are part of our daily life and a recent post on worldipreview.com (an intellectual property issues online publication) is especially pertinent to our mission. Before going into to more detail, let me pose a few questions: Have you ever seen someone hawking high priced luxury goods on the street […]
Recently a colleague told me harrowing story about how he was delayed from selling his house due to a bizarre statutory requirement. How many of you loyal Jurisco Surety Bond blog followers have ever heard of Reconveyance? Ok, don’t answer, some of you are probably attorneys or other Surety Bond blog authors. But for those […]
An interesting and in-depth article written by California Appellate Law Expert and Super Lawyer, John Derrick, titled "The Civil Appeals Process", got me thinking about the role of defendant's bonds in today's court system. (see John's full article: here) Specifically, the article got me thinking how defendant's bonds (i.e. appeal bonds or stay bonds) are […]
“Simply put, money can be divided but children cannot” This line, by Jeff Landers on Forbes.com, speaks to the extra layer of difficulty when a divorcing couple have children. The article, however, speaks more to the extra (extra!) layer of difficulty when one member of the divorcing couple has an international passport. (see full post […]
As an attorney, have you ever had a client who was looking to start a new business ask you about a License Bond? As a potential small business owner have you ever had to procure a license bond and not known what in the world that would entail? The bond experts at Jurisco will try […]
Recently, the surety bond experts at Jurisco and their blog team read an article on AmericanBanker.com (an online financial publication) about the future of online payment processing, written by Deborah Peace (read it: here). In it, Ms. Peace outlays the growing trend of online payment processing along with the future regulatory challenges and concerns. One […]
On July 1st, 2012 a number of significant changes to Mechanics Lien Law in California went into effect. It is hard to gauge exactly how much impact these changes have had lien filings in California. A recent article By Carlos Rico in The Daily Transcript postulates that there haven’t been a significant rise or fall […]