QUESTION: Dear Legal Wiz, In 2008, my husband and I started to purchase a piece of land in Negril. We separated and the person who was selling died not long after that. Before she died, she did another sales agreement and the attorney who did both agreements and collected my money is no longer in Jamaica. I really need to know whats going on, because I have been paying the taxes. I am not about to waste my money on yet another attorney. I paid over US$$3,000 already to Jamaican…
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Questions and answers by senior journalists based on research and expertise with a network of professionals such as lawyers, realtors, private investigators and other related fields
Getting legal research done in Jamaica after a bad lawyer
I paid at least three lawyers in Jamaica for separate cases huge sums and NOTHING.. I need assistance with legal research to continue on my own!
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Security deposit refund ordered in Kingston RM Court
Webmasters Make $$$ QUESTION: Dear Legal Wiz, A tenant brought me to court for security deposit knowing full well that she stopped paying my rent. I told the Resident Magistrate that I didnt refund her because she owes me rent, and she got a lawyer who planned against me and won. I need to appeal the matter and wanted to get some assistance. I dont have money for a lawyer. Can someone in your network assist? Ron Jackson RESPONSE: Dear Ron Jackson, Based on what you have outlined, it does…
Read MoreStuffed with a Jamaica court summons
He’s hiding till night, can I give summons then?
Webmasters Make $$$ QUESTION: Dear Legal Wiz, I didnt serve the summons because the man is hiding out since he found out I am suing him for my money. My bearer went to the address and was told that he left someone in charge to take care of his farm. We found out that his mother and brother lives up the road, and he goes there in the night. I am wondering if I should ask the bearer to lay wait him and give it to him in the night.…
Read MoreNeighbours trying to steal my Jamaica house with tenants
Webmasters Make $$$ QUESTION: Dear Legal Wiz, I need someone to help me find out about my house. I left someone to watch over it and when I didnt send any monies they just abandoned my house. I also got a letter from the National Housing Trust that the neighbours are trying to take it over, claiming that I have not been living there for a number of years. The letter indicates that the neighbours are claiming that they have to be keeping my yard clean to avoid an infestation…
Read MoreFor the sake of my son, I need to backdate my Jamaican divorce
QUESTION: Dear Legal Wiz, I recently found out that I am not divorced from my first husband in Jamaica. I have been filing for my boy since my ex-husband in Jamaica started divorce proceedings. Now that the immigration officer asked me for the proof that my divorce is final, I called back to Jamaica and was told it is not finalised. Is there any way I can have the paperwork backdated to an earlier date so that my current marriage will not be threatened. The lawyer apparently stopped working on…
Read MoreI got a ‘wrong formal order’ in Kingston, Jamaica
Webmasters Make $$$ Dear Legal Wiz, Last Saturday I found out that my landlord started and won a case against me in the Resident Magistrates Court in Kingston. I was told that he now has power from the Court to evict me from the house which I rented from him. I found all this out after I showed a document left on my verandah to the court staff downtown. I got the document from my niece who called me when I was at work to tell me that a man…
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