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The purpose of federal bankruptcy legislation, sometimes known as Title 11 of the United States Code or the “Bankruptcy Code,” is to provide an opportunity for financial reorganization or a fresh start for legitimate debtors who are unable to fulfill their obligations.

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As you are undoubtedly aware, many homeowners are in arrears on their mortgages as a result of the 2020 recession brought on by the coronavirus. At first, most lenders had been understanding and would have granted a brief suspension of the late payments.

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Clients regularly hire the Law Office of Ronald D. Weiss, P.C. to represent them in negotiations with banks, mortgage holders, credit card issuers, auto financing providers, landlords, tax authorities, and other creditors.

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The most common strategy used by our firm to prevent a house in severe mortgage arrears from going into foreclosure is a mortgage modification. Mortgage modification and other potential Retention Options are the potential goals of most homeowners in foreclosure because most people experiencing serious hardships with their mortgages are looking for “Retention Options

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For consumers, credit card debt and other unsecured personal loans are the most common types of debt. There are a few legal options for handling credit card debt, including the following: Litigation, bankruptcy, and/or negotiated settlements are the three options.

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Many of The Law Office of Ronald D. Weiss, P.C.’s clients face the possibility of litigation or collection activities from their creditors because they are accused of having debt that they are unable to pay or because they contest the existence, amount, or obligation of the debt.

Landlord Tenant Solutions

Landlord-Tenant Law is one of our firm’s areas of expertise; we defend landlords and tenants in a variety of legal proceedings before the Landlord-Tenant Court and the New York Supreme Court. When it comes to eviction and/or collecting large amounts of past due rent.

Distressed Real Estate 

A. Pre-Contract When a seller (the “Seller”) sells real estate to a buyer (the “Buyer”), there are usually a number of important steps involved. A seller will first list their property on the market for sale. A real estate broker is frequently hired by the seller to help locate possible buyers for their property.

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In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes,” as Benjamin Franklin famously said. This phrase has recently been amended by popular opinion to include student loans. Since most jobs these days require a bachelor’s degree, the amount of debt that Americans owe on their student loans

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Many people have trouble keeping up with their tax payments to the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance (“NYS”), which includes sales taxes, income taxes, payroll taxes, and other state taxes, as well as the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”), which includes individual income taxes.

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  • WELCOME: Five Towns

The Five Towns are a loose collection of towns and villages in Nassau County, New York, on the western side of Long Island’s South Shore, next to Queens County’s boundary with New York City. The Five Towns are not officially recognized, but “the basic five are Lawrence, Cedarhurst, Woodmere, Hewlett, and Inwood.” There is a subsequent stop for each of these “towns” on the Long Island Rail Road’s Far Rockaway Branch. The Town of Hempstead includes all five of the communities. The largest and most populated community in the Five Towns is Woodmere, followed by Inwood in terms of population.

Hewlett Bay Park and Woodsburgh are two small villages and a few unincorporated localities in the area that are not included in the final total. None of these villages are actually towns, despite their names. The hamlets of Woodmere and Inwood, the villages of Lawrence and Cedarhurst, and “The Hewletts,” which are made up of Woodsburgh, Hewlett Neck, Hewlett Bay Park, and Hewlett Harbor, are sometimes referred to as The Five Towns.

Since North Woodmere’s residents utilize the many public services provided by the “Five Towns” and the town’s two high schools, it is officially considered one of the “Five Towns.” Others disagree, arguing that it is a part of Valley Stream and not one of the “Five Towns,” since Motts Creek divides it from the other towns. Situated on the same barrier island as Long Beach, Lido Beach, and Point Lookout as Lawrence, Atlantic Beach is culturally associated with the Five Towns and its students attend public schools there, although it is not always included in the Five Towns designation.

  • History

The origin of the term “Five Towns” may be traced back to 1931, when the communities of Inwood, Lawrence, Cedarhurst, Woodmere, and Hewlett joined forces to form the “Five Towns Community Chest”. As of 2018, the group remained a local charity, but the term “Five Towns” gained traction as a term referring to the entire region. An encampment of Girl Scouts of the USA by the “Five Towns Council, embracing the villages [sic] of Inwood, Lawrence, Cedarhurst, Woodmere, and Hewlett” is mentioned in a 1933 story in The New York Times. The communities are named according to LIRR station.

One noteworthy feature of the Five Towns is that, in spite of the perception that Nassau County’s South Shore is more urbanized than its North Shore, the Five Towns still have hamlets on the North Shore that resemble the Gold Coast of Long Island, complete with massive mansions and upscale private communities by the water. The neighborhood was described as “affluent” by the New York Times. But compared to the other “towns,” Inwood is far less wealthy, has a more urban feel, and has a population that is noticeably more ethnically varied.

  • Education

The Lawrence Public Schools (District 15) and the Hewlett-Woodmere School District (District 14) are the two school districts located in the Five Towns. The Hewlett-Woodmere district encompasses all of Hewlett and a portion of Woodmere, as well as a portion of Gibson and the nearby villages of Lynbrook and Valley Stream. In general, the Lawrence school district includes all of Lawrence, Cedarhurst, and Inwood, as well as parts of Woodmere, North Woodmere, and Woodsburgh.

In addition, the Five Towns are home to a large number of private schools. These include Yeshiva of South Shore, Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway (HAFTR), Hebrew Academy of Long Beach (HALB), and independent Lawrence Woodmere Academy.

Five Towns College

Five Towns College was originally intended to be located in Lawrence, but by the time the institution was granted a charter in 1972, the original location was no longer accessible. Currently, the college is situated in Suffolk County’s Dix Hills. The school never had a physical link to the Five Towns, other than the original proposed site.

  • Jewish community

The Jewish community in the Five Towns had grown significantly by the 1980s. Out of the 47,048 Jews counted in the 1980 census, the UJA-Federation of New York estimated that 35,000 Jews, with an increasing proportion of Orthodox Jews, lived in the area. As of 2010, there were numerous synagogues, kosher eateries, and Jewish private schools located in the Five Towns. Due to the growing size of the Orthodox community, many new Orthodox families decided to settle in nearby communities like North Woodmere and Far Rockaway.
  • Publications

The CDP is 0.2 square miles (0.52 km2) in total, of which 0.1 square miles (0.26 km2) is land and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km2) (35.29%) is water, according to the United States Census Bureau.

  • In popular culture

  • The Five Towns served as the backdrop for Rob Weiss’ 1993 film Amongst Friends.
  • Johnny Drama plays a character in the fictional television program Five Towns, which is featured on the television series Entourage. Actor-director Edward Burns, who attended Hewlett High School after growing up in Valley Stream, was slated to serve as the show’s producer. The Five Towns are strangely shown as a grimy industrial location in Entourage.
  • The Five Towns are mentioned in Thomas Pynchon’s 1963 novel V., but Malverne is included in the group.
  • Tommy mentions that his date lives in the Five Towns when attempting to persuade Henry to accompany him on a double date in the movie Goodfellas.
  • The filmmaker decided to have the trains travel in the opposite direction, so the opening sequence of Married to the Mob was shot at the Cedarhurst rail station.

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