Pointless Debater
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- Apr 16, 2025
In general it's a bad idea to go pro se (represent yourself) even in a nuisance lawsuit because if you're not licensed to practice law the possibility of you making a technical error like missing a filing deadline or some rule of the court is not insignificant. For a landlord I would wager this is a cost they have built in.The bad side of this is if someone does sue you, especially someone fishing for a settlement that has never even met you, you have to hire representation because it's a distinct entity from yourself and you're not licensed to practice law.
(There are some jurisdictions in which certain courts, particularly small claims, do not allow attorneys, in which case somebody representing the company [manager, president, whatever] reps the company instead.)
Phil's 2020 bankruptcy filing states that he has no other names and no business EINs used for the prior 8 years (so 2012-2020) so from all apparent accounts, DSP doesn't have a business/company/corporation for his YouTube activities You can claim business expenses on a personal income tax return, but doing it via an actual company that files its own tax returns has advantages.Isn't this how DSP basically was able to squeeze his bankruptcy since mostly everything was declared as a "business expense"?
Karl was sued in a personal capacity, he can't just bankruptcy the business and it goes away. (The same applies to Karl doing bankruptcy since court ordered judgments/fees are not discharged in Australian bankruptcy). It may afford Karl the opportunity to prolong the sale of his house and getting some sort of court ordered schedule for a certain income amount per month to satisfy the debt, and it may help Karl reduce or avoid having to pay his own counsel.NAL but if the business is an entity couldn't the owner declare bankruptcy due to lack of funds and that's the end of it? Or does the lawsuit then go over the owner(s)?
Of note is that as I understand it Jobst spent a little under $750K on his defense; as I understand it, the GoFundMe gave Karl 200K, and Notch gave Karl $300K. So it's possible that Jobst's assertion that "it's nowhere near $1.8 million AUD" could be true because his lawyers would have been substantially compensated (~$500K of around $750K AUD). Even if we assume that the rest is a writeoff for Jobst's lawyers, he still owes over a million AUD for Billy's judgment + legal fees and is pretty fucked by all obvious accounts.
I'm still not a lawyer, but if Karl decides to play games by transferring assets to his wife or his company to say he doesn't own them... courts frown on such shenanigans. If he had the house in the corporate name years ago it still would probably be pierced if Karl was the sole owner or substantially in control, but if he starts moving stuff around after losing the case to try to claim to be a penniless pauper as an individual, judges do not like that sort of thing and he's going to get absolutely hammered,