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How a D.C. liquor license is decided: choosing the right license class, the appropriateness standard, who can protest, settlement agreements that bind you for years, and what to check before you sign a lease.

How to file in D.C. small claims court: the $10,000 limit, money-only claims, naming the right defendant, the new security deposit notice rule, what persuades at the hearing, and collecting after you win.

What the D.C. LLC Act imposes when two equal owners split with no operating agreement: equal control, equal distributions regardless of contributions, deadlock, no buyout, and the limits of judicial dissolution.

Why D.C. tenants pay rent into the court registry during an eviction case, how Bell v. Tsintolas and Rule 12-I limit those orders, how to contest the amount, and what a missed payment costs.

Served with a petition for a civil protection order in D.C.? How the temporary order, the good cause hearing, and a consent order work, and what consenting can cost you later.

Appointed personal representative of a D.C. estate? The inventory is due in three months, creditors have six, claims must be paid in statutory order, and the liability for mistakes can be yours.

How probate works in D.C. Superior Court, the $80,000 small estate route and $40,000 affidavit, what skips probate entirely, and when a will alone is enough for a District homeowner.

What jury duty in D.C. involves: answering the summons, voir dire, juror pay, the rule that makes many employers pay you for a short term of service, and the job protections D.C. law gives every juror.

Under D.C. Code 19-302 a surviving spouse takes the whole estate in exactly one situation, and it is not the one most married homeowners are in. How the fractional shares actually fall, why a rowhouse makes them worse, the $80,000 small estate threshold, and the reason the new affidavit shortcut is closed to any estate holding real property.

A Notice of Infraction is not a bill. It is the opening pleading in an administrative case, and paying it is an admission that follows the property. The answer deadline and the five mail days, what the District has to establish at OAH, the tenant neglect carve-out in D.C. Code 42-3502.08, the self-certification route that closes the exposure, and the 30-day receivership trigger behind it all.