 | Kathy Adkins is a manager with PrePaid Legal and works closely with many families and individuals to help them have peace of mind by protecting the legal rights of their lives and careers. Kathy comes to PrePaid Legal after a long career in nursing and a couple of college degrees from WSU. Kathy is a seminar presenter on several subjects and a “Distinguished Toastmaster”. Kathy works with many area businesses to help protect them from the increased number of Identity Theft issues and regulations that are now part of federal regulations. Kathy is one of a few “Certified Identity Theft Specialists” in the Wichita area and will present free to your group or company to show you how to protect your company and employees. Kathy works closely with the Derby and Haysville Chamber of Commerce and the business referral group “Business Network International” Kathy can be reached for questions or speaking engagements by phone (316) 529-8565 or by e mail at kadkins3@cox.net Visit the web site www.prepaidlegal.com/hub/kathyadkins to see more on protecting your rights for pennies a day. |
Legal
2007-07-01 16:13:00
You need to know your rights!
Answer: Kids, Courts and Confusion. These situations happen everyday in the real world. A father who is normally gentle and reasonable attempts to keep an angry teenager from leaving the house in a fit of anger by holding an arm. The teen calls 911 and tells them she is being “abused” to retaliate against her parent. Would you know what to do?? Do you know what your legal rights are at this point?? Can you get the proper advice at 2AM when frustrations are running high?? Yes, you can.
Let’s say you have run a day care of a few years with never as much as a skinned knee or complaint. Suddenly you have been accused of something you think you only read about in the newspaper. Everyone in the community is whispering and looking at you funny. Your neighbors won’t speak to you and the neighborhood children are not allowed at your home to play with your children. You are a teacher of several years and suddenly you are accused of improper behavior with a student, you are nearly fainting because the things you are accused of never happened. What do you do and who do you call?
If SRS showed up at your door at 11PM to remove your children or worse yet arrest you, do you have a defender to call 24/7 to protect your rights?? Your child has been associating with children you are not sure about and one day a police officer is at your door because your child was seen near a neighbor’s property and thousands of dollars of damage has been done to a neighbor’s home.
When you don’t know your rights, you effectively don’t have any rights. Often knowing the exact thing to do can save you money and grief. Why wouldn’t you want the correct advice instead of replying on your “gut” feeling? Even when you go to the expense of trying to determine your rights, the “professional” you contacted may not be giving the best advice. People like Oprah and Charles Koch never make decisions without having everything reviewed by their professional staff. If the correct advice could save you hundreds of dollars for the price of a cup of coffee wouldn’t it be worth it??
Parents can breath a sigh of relief when faced with acting out offspring, child care providers can feel secure that they aren’t going to be “tarred and feathered” for something they didn’t do. You won’t be faced with a second mortgage to pay for something your child wasn’t involved with.
