Well that is a good question! It goes like this; you are accused of drunk driving. You are told by the police that you have to take a blood or breath test. You think, “Is that right, or are the police just telling me that to get evidence to use against me?” You know police…
It is the age old dilemma that people, whether Mexican or U.S., don’t trust banks. And if a tax is imposed for depositing money, more mattresses get stuffed and more money is buried in the back yard. That is precisely what is happening in Mexico where the Mexican Government’s “Cash Deposit Tax” levies a 3%…
The US Government Confiscates about 13 million dollars per Day in Assets by administrative Process, and Many Owners of the seized Property are not Accused of a Crime says www.forfeiture.gov How can the U.S. Government do that is the question being asked by many law abiding citizens whose cash, cars, boats and even houses are taken…
My client recently handed me a letter from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Customs and Border Protection. I read it and started to give some thought to what a “non-lawyer” would think about all the confusing legal terms, sometimes referred to as legalese. That is, I thought, “what if I got such a…
This is a phrase that, as a lawyer, I hear from my clients when their money, car, purses, mobile phones, and just about anything is seized at the border or a checkpoint by the Border Patrol or any police agency. It is confusing because the legal term is seized or confiscated by police ( Confiscacion…
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