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It\'s late and your truck is leaking gas so you decide to rent a hotel room for

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Question

It's late and your truck is leaking gas so you decide to rent a hotel room for the night. As you are about to check in the desk clerk is told by one of the hotel's employees that your truck is leaking gas, so the desk clerk refuses to rent a room to you. Based on these facts, can the desk clerk legally refuse to rent you the room?

Yes, because there is a danger to other guests and the hotel.

Yes, because the presence of the truck would frighten other guests.

No, because the innkeeper cannot discriminate on the basis of social status.

No, because rooms were available in the hotel.

Sally tells you that she want to create a legal arrangement which will allow her or someone she choses to manage her assets during her lifetime and that also directs what happens to her assets when she dies. Based on these facts, which of the following should you tell her to create:

Power of Attorney

Living Will.

Last Will and Testament.

Revocable Living Trust.

You broke your hand and cannot write. You are about to take a long trip so you ask your friend to write your Last Will and Testament as you dictate it to them. At the end of the document you tell your friend to go ahead and sign your name. Just you and your friend were present during this whole time. You are killed by a ferocious Panda on your trip. Based on these facts, how will the Court rule as to the validity of your Will?

the Will is invalid since there were no other witnesses to the signing of your Will.

the Will is valid since your friend both wrote out your Will and signed it.

the Will is invalid since there's no proof you were of sound mind when it was created.

the Will is valid since your friend only did as you asked.

Stanley was very sick and thought he was going to die, so he wrote a handwritten Will, dated and signed it, but there were no witnesses present. His handwritten Will is called a holographic Will.

True

False

If a person owns real property as an "estate in fee simple" it means they own all the interest someone can own in a piece of real property. .

True

False

Explanation / Answer

(a) Based on the above facts, the desk clerk can legally refuse to rent you a romm, because there is a danger involved to other guests.

(b) Based on the fact, I will advise her to create power of attorney and living will.

(c) The will is invalid since there were no other witness to the signing of your will.

(d) Stanley is called a halographic will - False

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