Who has your student loans? Can they be consolidated? What if I can’t pay them?
Liz Pulliam Weston’s column (which I read in the 10/18/09, Oregonian), and is also on her website, answered an interesting and tricky question about student loans. You may learn as much as I did about how to follow the trail of your student loans:
1) Student loans in collections? Here’s where to find help, by Liz Weston
What do you do when you find something of value, e.g. jewelry, an electronic device, etc.? Can you keep it?
You can always call the Oregon State Bar Information and Referral Service, or your local police or sheriff’s department, but if it’s “after-hours“:
Some interesting (and maybe even useful) sections of the Oregon Revised Statutes (ORS) to read are under these Index headings:
A new entrant into the Oregon lawyer blogosphere: Ben Knaupp, aka Lawyer Ben.
He’s been blogging about consumer and small business real estate issues with a recent focus on homeowners facing debt and foreclosure, with a recent 8-part blog series on Dealing with Foreclosure in Oregon.
For more than you may want to know about judges who perform marriages, but worth reading for the sheer joy of it:
“Cash and Marry: Some little-known judicial history from the man who made it,” by Justice William W. Bedsworth:
Excerpt: “…Dave doesn’t do weddings any more.(3) He’s a federal judge now. Apparently the feds don’t do weddings. My understanding is that too many brides object to having two guys in dark suits standing behind the celebrant, talking into their sleeves throughout the ceremony.(4) ….
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I didn’t set out to be a price-gouger. I was perfectly happy performing weddings for $150 a pop. For that price, I did more than just show up in a robe and say the magic words. I sat down with the couple, found out how they wanted their wedding performed, got some cute details about them for the ceremony, put together something that suited them and fit within the outline I’d developed, and warned them to practice the kiss.
The Oregon State Bar 2009 edition of their Oregon Legislation Highlights arrived today and we’re very happy. It organizes by subject (or by legal practice area) over 400 bills and measures from the 2009 Oregon Legislative Session and is an invaluable research tool before and after the arrival of the 2009 Oregon Revised Statutes.
Visit Oregon Laws dot org to see the excellent and creative work Robb Shecter is doing with the current and the superseded Oregon Revised Statutes.
Superseded ORS 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, and 2005 (the 2007 is already on his website).
I also love how easy it is to find ORS section annotations at Oregon Laws dot org Give it a spin.
You can also find a searchable PDF copy of the 2008 Oregon AG’s Public Records and Meetings Manual at the Public Resource’s Bulk Resource archive, courtesy of Carl Malamud.
Previous OLR blog posts on this subject.
Thank you to Professor Bill Harbaugh for the lead and the link.
RE: 2007 SB 10 in the Oregon Supreme Court (not in the ORS, but you can find the enrolled bill at the Oregon Legislature’s website).
I’m well overdue with my post about this case, but maybe I will be just in time if the Oregon Supreme Court hands down their decision soon.
1) The name of the case is: VanNatta v Oregon Government Ethics Commission (docket number S057570) and the decision will be posted at the Oregon Judicial Department website (also from here or here).
Last Reminder from the OLR Blogger:
NIST: “Standard Time begins each year at 2:00 a.m. (local time) on the first Sunday of November. Move your clocks back one hour at the resumption of Standard Time….
In 2009, DST is from 2:00 a.m. (local time) on March 8th until 2:00 a.m. (local time) on November 1st….” (link)
We get this question fairly regularly:
How can I get my relative to move out of my house? Help!
It’s not really nice, or even very useful, for us to remind you that you let them move in, that you should have had a lease even if it was your nearest and dearest, or that you have too big a heart and trust FAMILY too much.
