Speaker 1: Time for law and disorder.
Speaker 2: I demand a lawyer with attorney Jeff Kaufman on one
Speaker 2: oh one one W j R R.
Speaker 1: All right, Jeff from Kaufman and Lenn one of the
Speaker 1: partners there find the local uh personal injury law firm
Speaker 1: in Central Florida. If you are someone you know has
Speaker 1: been injured slip and fall, car accident, boat accidents from
Speaker 1: a Merritt Island boat parade Saturday night, might want to
Speaker 1: reach out to Jeff.
Speaker 2: Jeff at When you need Us dot Com is his
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Speaker 1: What'd you think of that video clip from the boat
Speaker 1: pary to Merit Island.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, DUIs b UIs. I believe it's called
Speaker 3: under the influence.
Speaker 1: Don't know that that's the case here other than just
Speaker 1: negligent operation. I hadn't seen anything that alcohol.
Speaker 3: Well, there are a couple rules that you have when
Speaker 3: you whatever vehicle you have. You know, these guys have
Speaker 3: been on these canals and things forever. They know, doing
Speaker 3: donuts and everything else. You can't wake rules, wake laws
Speaker 3: and everything else like that. But I'm surprised that there
Speaker 3: wasn't a single guy out there, you know, monitoring this
Speaker 3: stuff normally. Yeah, normally that what's I forgot what they
Speaker 3: depart those guys who FWC.
Speaker 2: Is that what it is?
Speaker 3: Yeah, guys in the boats all the time you give,
Speaker 3: they get BUI s and all those that they checked
Speaker 3: checked this, they became.
Speaker 1: They became involved after the fact. Yeah, there seems to
Speaker 1: be some dispute if you're just joining us. Big story
Speaker 1: of the weekend, uh Merritt Island boat parade was Saturday
Speaker 1: night and at some point somebody who had a boat
Speaker 1: that was resembled a sports car decked out, was doing
Speaker 1: sports car type maneuvers, donuts and whatnot, but in the
Speaker 1: water and uh ended up crashing, careening right in broadsiding
Speaker 1: another vessel injuring three people.
Speaker 2: Yeah, three people off to the hospital.
Speaker 1: Yeah, dumb.
Speaker 3: You know, the issue in this case is, you know,
Speaker 3: what law applies, is a canal that considered you know,
Speaker 3: maritime law or regular law. But you know, let's just
Speaker 3: hope they had insurance to be able to cover those injuries.
Speaker 3: It's pointless, man, It's dumb. Yeah, I mean I grew up.
Speaker 3: I grew up in South Florida. I used to vote
Speaker 3: all the time, and I mean there were basic rules
Speaker 3: back then. They don't think they don't apply right now,
Speaker 3: I mean stupid.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you call it. There's no wake zones in that
Speaker 2: area for a reason. Just enjoy the nice boat parade
Speaker 2: that has happened for many years. And you know, don't
Speaker 2: be dumb. Yeah, yeah, I'm rooting for fruit. Don't be stupid.
Speaker 3: But I'm also routing that they have insurance so that
Speaker 3: the people they hurt will actually get their medical expenses covered.
Speaker 1: There you go.
Speaker 2: Is it illegal to get engaged to somebody before your divorce?
Speaker 1: Good?
Speaker 3: No, engagement means nothing. I mean there are laws that
Speaker 3: cover rings and stuff like that, but engagement is not
Speaker 3: an actual part of the marriage process. You don't have
Speaker 3: to be engaged to be married. I would advise not.
Speaker 3: Do we need it for getting married?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: No, no, I mean getting engaged before because it only
Speaker 3: upsets the other person and it makes that divorce even harder.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, you do. I have to screw around
Speaker 1: with that.
Speaker 3: You're not done with what you're done with, the last
Speaker 3: thing you want to do is you know, start giving
Speaker 3: other people rings and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: And I don't know how long it's been, but maybe
Speaker 2: tap the brakes a little bit before you just jump
Speaker 2: into another marriage.
Speaker 1: But again, I don't know.
Speaker 3: How relationships are relationships. What I'm saying is this is
Speaker 3: that in these situations, it's not a smart thing to do.
Speaker 3: You know, it definitely causes conflict with the family you
Speaker 3: have right now. Oh, this is my fiance. You know,
Speaker 3: it's like Dad, you're not divorced yet. It just causes
Speaker 3: too many issues. Avoid it all around.
Speaker 2: Two people from the same vehicle are eyeing me separately
Speaker 2: for seventy thousand dollars.
Speaker 3: Anything wrong with this? I feel like it's not legal.
Speaker 3: I assume there was an accident. He might be the
Speaker 3: cause of it and there were two people in the car.
Speaker 1: That he How does that work? Separate suits or what
Speaker 1: it can?
Speaker 3: You can absolutely have second suits and situations like this.
Speaker 1: It works like this.
Speaker 3: Let's say you have insurance and you have a ten
Speaker 3: twenty thousand dollars policy. It means, you know, a total
Speaker 3: of twenty thousand for the accident in ten thousand per person.
Speaker 3: It means that each person could could sue you for
Speaker 3: ten thousand. They're each trying to get seventy thousand each.
Speaker 3: That's a weird figure. It's a weird figure because very
Speaker 3: few people have seventy thousand dollars of insurance exactly. So
Speaker 3: it sounds like it sounds like they're just putting a
Speaker 3: figure forward. But the good part about it is let
Speaker 3: your insurance handle it. It has nothing to do with you.
Speaker 3: You know, don't get involved with it. Just listen to
Speaker 3: the information that the that the insurance company's attorney tells
Speaker 3: you to do, and do that. Don't do anything outside
Speaker 3: the normal course of business.
Speaker 1: Do what your lawyer says.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I know it sucks, but in this case
Speaker 3: it's the insurance gun will handle it. And the only
Speaker 3: way this will go to trial or you'llow have to
Speaker 3: go forward is if you're in insurance company chooses not
Speaker 3: to settle.
Speaker 2: And if you don't have legal representation, Jeff, you'd cover
Speaker 2: that obviously, right would that? Would you be involved in
Speaker 2: something I wouldn't cover the defensive an ace Okay, No,
Speaker 2: that's your insurance company hires those people. But if somebody
Speaker 2: hits you, Jeff, when you need us dot com something
Speaker 2: like that, This person said I suspect my neighbor has
Speaker 2: poisoned my goat leon Notice whatever they found goat those flowers?
Speaker 3: Or is that an actual a goat, a goat named Leonidas?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: It's not like the goat's name is Leonids. I don't know,
Speaker 3: but I don't know. If there's a flower called golt Leoni. No, no,
Speaker 3: this is a goat. They said they're not going to
Speaker 3: poison your flower.
Speaker 1: The people do. They don't like you. They'll kill your
Speaker 1: trees and stuff. Hold on, confused, somebody has a pet
Speaker 1: goat and they think their neighbor is trying to kill it.
Speaker 2: Yes, because they found gopher poison in their trash.
Speaker 1: Do they have a case gopher poison? And who's track
Speaker 1: I guess in the other people's trash? I don't know. Mistake.
Speaker 1: You have to use goat poison, not gopher poison. It
Speaker 1: died well here here, well versatile.
Speaker 3: First off, First off, you have to prove that just
Speaker 3: because you found gopher poisoning in their garbage cans doesn't
Speaker 3: mean they use it to try to poison your goat
Speaker 3: unless you found pellets or something else of gopher poison
Speaker 3: in your in your land.
Speaker 1: You know, you got nothing. I think you need to
Speaker 1: go topsy. The goat's not dead, it is the goat
Speaker 1: is gone. Hooks up.
Speaker 2: I respect my neighbor has poisoned my prized goat.
Speaker 1: Situation enough.
Speaker 3: Cude, all right, I don't have If the goat's dead,
Speaker 3: we'll talk about it.
Speaker 1: I mean in the end. And here's here's where it's bad.
Speaker 3: You're only going to get the value of the goat,
Speaker 3: meaning the actual value of buying the goat. Now, these
Speaker 3: are scumbags, and you can report them to the You know,
Speaker 3: it's a crime what they did. So there are a
Speaker 3: couple issues. You've got a civil and a criminal issue.
Speaker 3: But I don't know if your go got poisoned. I'm
Speaker 3: trying to read this question.
Speaker 2: Okay, how about this one. I send my health. We're
Speaker 2: dealing with goats now, and we're off got with goats.
Speaker 2: We're passed goats. That's my life now, goats. Tiger Woods's
Speaker 2: a goat, so it was Michael Jordan.
Speaker 1: Nobody's trying to poison them.
Speaker 2: I send my health et cetera insurance agent a gift
Speaker 2: card because she keeps up with all that I do.
Speaker 3: Oh, okay, good for you. You're very sweet to do that. Yeah,
Speaker 3: could you read the question for the future? Very nice? Okay,
Speaker 3: I'm a man that runs a charity organization. It's not
Speaker 3: a five to oh one C three non for nonprofit. Okay,
Speaker 3: you're following that, it's not one of those.
Speaker 2: If people make donations to me, can I write them
Speaker 2: out some form of document or receipt that allows them
Speaker 2: to get tax deduction?
Speaker 3: No, because you're your company is not a charity defined
Speaker 3: by the government.
Speaker 1: I was thinking yeah, no.
Speaker 3: But if they were doing it for promotional if they
Speaker 3: were business, well no, it's it's just not a it's
Speaker 3: not an incorporated charity, gotcha. But in this situation, I mean,
Speaker 3: if they can be determined that it's for promotional reasons
Speaker 3: and their business, they might be.
Speaker 1: Able to write it off. Okay.
Speaker 2: For Kaufman, is there any kind of legal recourse available
Speaker 2: for a four oh one K that transferred from John
Speaker 2: Hancock that a different company screwed up?
Speaker 1: My name must be Okay, here's the deal.
Speaker 3: Whatever anybody screws something up, you have to show that
Speaker 3: they screwed it up and you were injured because of it.
Speaker 3: So in this case, if somebody was supposed to transfer
Speaker 3: something over and it caused you to be hurt, whether
Speaker 3: it be you know, financially or physically. You know, in
Speaker 3: this case, they could be held responsible.
Speaker 1: Right, Okay, there's time for one more. Now people are
Speaker 1: gonna go for a.
Speaker 3: So you're gonna be dealing with this whole day. If
Speaker 3: you're married, Moses to kill golfers, United States Golf. If
Speaker 3: you're married, veritable rabbit hole and you're the sole.
Speaker 2: Provider's goat guys, goat focus.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: If you're married and you're the sole provider and your
Speaker 2: wife is a stay at home mom, but she threatens
Speaker 2: to leave you over the stupidest things. She also threatens
Speaker 2: to take your paychecks even though she doesn't have a job.
Speaker 1: What would happen? Would you like to talk about this?
Speaker 3: You want to sit down and we can have a discussion.
Speaker 3: You could feel good about this is therapy, dude. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you know, what can you do about it? Well, there
Speaker 3: are a couple of things you could do about it.
Speaker 3: You don't have to give them your check. I mean,
Speaker 3: the fact is it gets the either gets direct deposit
Speaker 3: in your count or something else. Either she has access
Speaker 3: or you don't. If you don't want her to have
Speaker 3: access to your checks. All you have to do is
Speaker 3: have it set up in a separate account she doesn't have.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 3: If she decides to divorce you over this, you know
Speaker 3: then family court will be involved. But if you're worried
Speaker 3: about her screwing around with your checks, to just have
Speaker 3: them deposited another account and then move that money over
Speaker 3: when you want to use it there. The worst thing
Speaker 3: that can happen to some couples is they do a
Speaker 3: joint account because one person sometimes is not responsible and
Speaker 3: they blow that money and it actually screws up the
Speaker 3: whole marriage. So maybe the best thing for your marriage
Speaker 3: is to move into separate accounts and you know, put
Speaker 3: money in one account when necessary, because if your other
Speaker 3: spouse is blowing your money and doing things wrong, and
Speaker 3: that could be male or female, you know it's going
Speaker 3: to cause you to get divorced eventually. So figure out
Speaker 3: what you got to do now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, go see accounts, or at least your goat didn't
Speaker 2: get killed. No spoken this morning, Jeffitt when you need
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Speaker 1: Jeff Coffin from Coffin and Lynd. We do a pre
Speaker 1: sate you taking the time out of your work day
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Speaker 3: And we have a great movie this week, and we're
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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, we'll catch up again next Monday. Jeff Coffin, Everybody,
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