Asset Forfeiture
Have you ever heard the word asset forfeiture? Well, asset forfeiture is the confiscation of something that is owned by a person or a company, taken away by the State due to the accusation of having done something wrong or illegal.
Some of the things that are involved in asset forfeiture are bank deposits, motor vehicles, real estate, boats and aircraft, computers, servers, software, jewelry, and cash on the person or on the vehicle. These are all things that can be taken away regarding to asset forfeiture.
Here, at Richard R. Alamia Attorney at Law, we have and are in current representations of persons who’s properties have been seized under certain asset forfeiture laws. The Texas and federal government systems have rules that require the confiscation of any property that has been used for criminal offenses or properties that represent further criminal activity. We can defend our costumers brutally against this.
Decomiso Federal y Estatal
En las oficinas del abogado Richard R. Alamia representamos a las personas cuyos bienes hayan sido incautados en virtud de las leyes estatales o federales de confiscación. Texas y el sistema federal tienen leyes que establecen el decomiso y aseguramiento de los bienes, una vez demostrado que se han utilizado en la comisión de un delito o que representan posibles ingresos monetarios procedentes de actividades delictivas.
Entre los tipos de propiedad más a menudo involucrados en un caso de confiscación de activos son los siguientes:
- Efectivo que lleve la persona, en el vehículo o en la casa del acusado, en el momento del arresto o la ejecución de una orden de registro
- Depósitos bancarios
- Vehículos de motor de todo tipo
- Bienes Inmuebles
- Bienes semovientes
- Barcos y aviones
- Computadoras, servidores y software
- Equipos de jardinería
Si bien la absolución o sobreseimiento de los cargos penales contra los que la gente suele dar lugar a la devolución de la propiedad, también es posible en algunos casos para recuperar los bienes confiscados, incluso en una declaración de culpabilidad o la condena en el juicio de los cargos de apoyo a la caducidad. Las formas más eficaces para evitar la pérdida son demostrar que los bienes incautados se obtuvieron de fuentes legítimas o que otra persona es el propietario real. Incluso en los casos en que la ley apoya técnicamente la caducidad, un abogado que es un negociador muy a menudo puede lograr un retorno de la propiedad, a veces en relación con la negociación de la resolución de los cargos criminales relacionados.
Delitos graves en Inmigración
¿Qqué es lo que se considera como un delito grave de inmigración en los Estados Unidos? En 1988, cuando el tema de delitos graves se incorporó al Servicio de Inmigración y Nacionalidad (INA), un delito agravante se consideraba y era equparable a los delitos de asesinato o tráfico de drogas, pero el Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA) y el Reforma de Inmigración Ilegal y Responsabilidad del Inmigrante de 1996 (IIRAIRA) amplificaron los crímenes a una posición mas severa. Hoy día un elito grave es el causado por violencia, robo, tráfico ilegal, fraude, contrabando, asesinato, violación ya bien a un menor o un adulto y el intento o conspiración para cometer un delito con agravante.
En primer lugar, cuando uno está condenado por un delito grave, el gobierno debe probar que él o ella es culpable. El juez de la corte determinará si el individuo es culpable o no y podrá condenarlo por el delito.
Sin embargo, si la condena no es definitiva, no se requerirá que la persona sea enviada a prisión. Si la sentencia es definitiva y el daño se considera uno de los delitos graves oficiales, el individuo será enviado a la cárcel por un año o menos. Si es por menos de un año, entonces ese acontecimiento no se cosiderará como un delito con agravante.
What you should do if your child goes missing
The first 24 hours
Immediately report to local police authorities that her son is missing. Ask investigators to register their child in the Missing Persons File of the National Crime Information Center (NCIC). There is no waiting period for registering children and youth under 18 years in the NCIC.
Ask the police issued a bulletin warning (BOLO). Averique whether to involve the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the search of the child.
Limit access to your home until the police arrive and have collected all possible evidence. Do not touch or remove anything from your child's room or home. Remember that the clothes, sheets, personal items, computer and even trash may hold clues to the whereabouts of her son. The checklist in chapter 1 (Gathering Evidence in the first 48 hours) includes detailed information on how to close the nursery and pre-serve evidence.
Ask for the name and telephone number of the police investigator assigned to your case and retain this information in a safe and convenient.
Give law enforcement investigators all the facts and circumstances surrounding the disappearance of her child, even the steps that have already been made to find it.
How to register your images for copyright
How to register your images for copyright
Applications to register images, published or unpublished, claiming for themselves the Protections of Copyright please contact the Copyright Office (U.S. Copyright Office). The form used to record the pictures is the VA (Visual Arts).
To apply for registration of photographs, the author must submit the following in the same package or envelope, addressed to: Library of Congress Copyright Of-fice, 101 Independence Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20559-6000:
What is Money Laundering?
What is Money Laundering?
The term "money laundering" refers to the activities and financial transactions are conducted in order to hide the true origin of funds received. In most cases, this money is earned illegally and the goal is to give the appearance that illegal money that comes from a legitimate source.
Why IRS-CI is involved in money laundering investigations?
A glance at the newspapers is evidence that crimes related or motivated by money are in most criminal activity in the nation. Tax evasion, public corruption, fraud in health care, money laundering and drug trafficking are all examples of the types of crimes related or motivated by money. In these cases, a financial research is often important to obtain a conviction. For this reason, Internal Revenue Service – Criminal Investigation, IRS-CI (Internal Revenue Service – Criminal Investigation) is one of the main agencies involved in money laundering investigations.
Money laundering is a complex crime of intricate details, which usually involves numerous transactions and financial affairs throughout the world. IRS-CI has the financial investigators and the skill or knowledge necessary to "follow the money."
Contract Law
Civil Law Contract
Contract law in the United States of America covers the regulation of the obligations agreed to under contract (written or unwritten) between private individuals. Contract law on the sale of goods has been standardized throughout the nation as a result of the adoption of the Uniform Commercial Code of the United States (Uniform Commercial Code). However, there is still significant diversity in the interpretation of other contracts, depending on the degree of codification of common law in each state and the adoption of the doctrine and jurisprudence on the subject.
The parties are entitled to agree to arbitration for those disputes that may arise from their contractual relationship. Under the Federal Arbitration Act of the United States (which has been interpreted to cover all born under the contracts under federal or state law), arbitration clauses are exercisable unless the party opposing arbitration can show unconstitutional, fraud or any cause of nullity of the contract itself.
How to choose a Lawyer
Tips for choosing a lawyer
Many lawyers who primarily serve individuals and families have experience in a wide range of legal services in frequent demand such as as divorce and family matters, wills and probate, bankruptcy and debt problems, real estate, crime and personal injury. Some have a specific expertise. Make sure the attorney you are considering has experience in the area you need.
Is there such a term as Computer Law?
Computer law
Between Law and Information Technology you could see two types of relationships. If taken as a purely instrumental approach to the issue, you are referring to legal information. But when considering the computer as an object of law, we should make reference to the law or simply Computer Information Law.
Cybernetics plays a very important role in these relationships established in the previous paragraph. Because we know that cybernetics is the science of sciences, and arises as a need for a general science that studies and treats the relationship of the other sciences.
Slip and Fall Accidents
Who is responsible for an injury resulting from a slip and fall accident? Many thousands of people are injured each year — some very seriously — when they slip or trip and fall on a dangerous floor, a flight of stairs, or a rough patch of ground. Sometimes the property owner is responsible for the accident, and sometimes he or she is not.
If you have been injured in this way, first consider that it is a normal part of living for things to fall on or to drip onto a floor or the ground, and for smooth surfaces to become uneven. Also, some things put in the ground — drainage grates, for example — serve a useful purpose there. So a property owner (or occupier) cannot always be held responsible for immediately picking up or cleaning every slippery substance on a floor. Nor is a property owner always responsible for someone slipping or tripping on something that an ordinary person should expect to find there or should see and avoid. We all have an obligation to watch where we're going.
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