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Our client, William Ito, shares custody of a child with Sarah Rodriguez. Can you please review his email (pasted below) and tell me how much child support needs to be paid and by whom? Assume the gross to net income conversion table and income share schedules for 2025 are the same as 2026. Please also give me the basic child support obligation. State all amounts to the nearest whole dollar value (but don't round any values when calculating). Then, in a single paragraph, please outline the key factual assumptions you made for the calculation based on the relevant employment documents on file and the relevant laws. Reply back to me with your answers as a message in here. ** Here is the part of William's email I'd like to know how much child support I should pay, since Sarah's likely gonna be unemployed for the next while (we were both at Chasing). I want her to take her time since she's a bit burnt out. At any rate, I think it'll probably take her three years to find a new job since there are limited positions and minimal turn-around for head of production roles; it's also unlikely that she'll find the same role. We agreed to be bound by Illinois family law in our separation agreement, and I'm currently on the following temporary parenting time schedule: every Monday and Tuesday overnight, and every other Friday to school on Monday morning.

Our client, Chasing Streams, LLC, needs to know whether or not it might be liable to either or both employees who filed suit against it for violation of the California and/or Federal WARN Act. Please juxtapose the provisions of the Act to the company files. Write your reply back to me so I can decide next steps.

As part of the completed merger, ChasingStreams transferred to ParaZon thirty employees, who would continue the same work under ParaZon’s rate of pay and benefits, most of which were substantially similar to ChasingStreams. After Jaydon Cole was laid off by ParaZon, he filed a class action lawsuit, violation of the California WARN Act by failing to provide him and twenty other similarly situated employees 60 days’ notice of a “layoff.” ParaZon is considering a motion to dismiss on the grounds that the statue does not apply. Is ParaZon likely to succeed in its Motion to Dismiss? Reply to me here with your view, telling me: Yes/No, and then giving me a 1-2 sentence explanation.

We are working on the Angeles case. He is the custodian who sued Chasing Streams under the ADA based on his termination and failure to accommodate. It's the one where he made a verbal request, but Chasing Streams never addressed it. What are our chances on a motion to dismiss? Explain why. Give your reply here.

We will layoff our Head of Production Sarah Rodriguez as part of the upcoming merger. Please review Section IV of Sarah's layoff and WARN Notice and let me know if the language violates WARN. Answer to me right back here.

In preparation for ParaZon's HSR submission, please review the email exchange between it and ChasingStreams, its lost aircraft memo, and its member admission memo. Identify which of these files is required for submission by ParaZon pursuant to the attached Federal Trade Commission HSR Form Updates. Reply to me with your findings as a message here.

We're helping one of ChasingStreams's talent partners create a project for distribution on their channel(s). In addition to providing the production stages, ChasingStreams will contribute $10,000 cash plus $20,000 in employee time. We're otherwise staying hands-off with the project. Do we need any separate agreements with the talent? Give m the answer straight here and explain why, briefly.

As you know, the new artist montage reel is a hit. Unfortunately, one of the artists featured is not a fan of the wardrobe upgrade - Mara Sings sent a takedown notice, and we initially complied, but we'd like to keep the reel in production and on air. Can you draft a letter to Mara that outlines Streams' IP policies and her legal obligations under her licensing agreement? You can cite these documents and California law to defend Streams' position when relevant, but the rationale shouldn't come off heavy-handed, more like lightly persuasive - a starting point for negotiations. Reply back to me here with the main body of the letter.

Chasing Streams fired its entire facilities department and Head of Production before ParaZon acquired it. Sarah Rodriguez filed a Complaint on July 4, 2025 against ParaZon claiming not enough notice was given to her, and damages from breach of her employment contract. How much is ParaZon liable to Sarah in damages for insufficient notice under the California WARN Act? Give me your reply back here as a message.

We just received a demand letter from Isaiah’s counsel. He alleges wrongful termination and FMLA interference. Can you look into the validity of his claims and return me back a write-up of what you find? I want you to just write your answer right here.

As you know, “Bare Bones Decor” - Ava Kim’s limited series - is near completion. We have been collaborating with Ava on this production for months, with the understanding that Streams would retain the exclusive rights to broadcast it and then package it as an online course, with a 50/50 revenue split with Ava. This was all documented in email exchanges and in meetings with Ava’s counsel, but we have yet to draft an exclusivity contract for the work. Now that the ParaZon acquisition is on the horizon, it’s crucial that we distinguish “Bare Bones Decor” from Ava’s other non-exclusive, transferable content (as per her general talent contract). Can you draft an amendment to her talent contract that outlines Bare Bones Decor’s exclusivity arrangement? Draft it in such a way that it is incorporated into the Asset Purchase Agreement with ParaZon. We do not want to transfer our exclusive rights to Bare Bones and would like to do so without getting ParaZon involved. Just print your assessment to me here.