Rice & Associates has been providing Legal Services in various forms since the founding in September 1996. It is our mission as stated below:

Provide Legal Document Preparation Services, TRAINING in various legal subjects, entity structuring support to reduce taxation, and tax referrals.

We believe the best way to achieve this goal is to TRAIN the Client in the fundamentals not just generate documents and not to just have the Client represented by counsel in an emergency.

Rice & Associates believes in operating slowly, methodically, as well planned as possible. We do not practice handling emergencies. We believe in avoiding emergencies through prior planning on a biblical basis. We plan what we do and do what we plan. As a general rule we do not provide emergency, express services. Everything here is done on a measured, scheduled, basis in harmony with everything possible. We harmonize with everyone possible including government. We do not advocate any particular type of tax filing other than that commonly accepted by the taxing agencies. REASON: if you have a Social Insurance Totalization Agreement then you have a federal franchise and duty to file and pay as an individual income taxpayer, with few exceptions.

Memorandum on Cause of Individual Income Tax

First Annual Report of the Social Security Board (1936)

http://www.supremelaw.org/fedzone11/htm/append-c.htm

Memorandum in Support Termination of the Social Security Trust

Maritime Law as a Mixed Legal System

27 CFR 72.11

Crown Treaty 1997 Social Security

The Crown as Corporation by Frederick Maitland

US Taxes and the Crown

• The Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act (LHWCA) states, inter alia: “the term ‘vessel’ means any vessel upon which or in connection with which any person entitled to benefits under this chapter suffers injury or death arising out of or in the course of his employment, and said vessel’s owner, owner pro hac vice, agent, operator, charter or bare boat charterer, master, officer, or crew member.” 33 U.S.C. 902(21).
• NOW, think Social Security Trust (corporation domiciled in the Virgin Islands) and the US/UK Tax Treaty along with the 16th Amendment. IF you have an agreement with the United States government it is in Admiralty and litigation for said trust shall occur in a court of Admiralty (a.k.a. UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT).
• The Supreme Court has additionally ruled that all contracts with government, express or implied, are maritime in their nature, The Glide, 167 U.S. 606; and The Corsair, 145 U.S. 342, and therefore of admiralty jurisdiction, American Ins. Co. v. Canter (1828) 1 U.S. (Pet.) 511, 545; whereas "A case in admiralty does not, in fact, arise under the Constitution or Laws of the United States."
• “Concerning the scope of the Transaction Code 150 [number 6] of your request, our Disclosure Office in the Assistant Commission (International) has advised us that the transaction codes contained in our Manuals are used to identify a transaction being processed and to maintain a history of actions posted to a taxpayers account on the master file. The Transaction Code 150 indicated a tax liability assessed when a tax return is filed and a return is posted to the Master File. The Virgin Islands (150) relates to the tax liability assessed on a U.S. Self-Employment Tax Return-Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa. It indicates the amount of self employment tax assessed on this type of record. Sincerely, Barry Windheim, Program Analysis Freedom of Information, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY, Washington, D.C.”
• PAID YOUR FAIR SHARE LATELY? “American maritime law of general average, because of its civilian heritage, provides cargo with a preferred maritime lien for general average contributions (Commercial Instruments and Maritime Liens Act, 46 U.S. Code sect. 31301(5)(E))”
• The arrest in rem, now codified in the United States in Supplemental Rule C of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, is another basic component of American maritime law which traces its lineage back to English maritime law, as influenced by English common law.

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Rice & Associates, a Partnership

Shawn Rice serves as Rice & Associates, General Partner. Resume 080709

Associates of the Company come in a number of forms.

Facts

Shawn Rice is NOT currently a member of any United States State Bar Association. Shawn Rice is a Law School Graduate and ordained Rabbi.

Shawn Rice teaches law (halacha) at various times to the Jural Society of Torah Assemblies (www.JSOTA.com) of Phoenix, Arizona within The Order of Gershom. Shawn Rice is a Legal Advocate of the Ecclesiastical Court of Justice for the religious membership of Society of the Israelite Mosaic Paternal Ethic (SIMPE), Bat Alef Tav, and Tzur Yisrael of Arizona.

Shawn Rice does assist various parties to resolve differences in the nature of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR).

Partners/Alliances

Shawn Rice is a member of Messianic Israel Alliance (www.mim.net) and in-house counsel for Union of Yisraelite Nazarene Congregations (www.2house.org).

CONTACT US

Thank you for visiting our Web site. Because we value you, our Congregates, Clients and Students, we have created this site so that you may contact us. If you have questions please communicate via email for more information about our services. We will attempt to respond within 24 hours within the next business day.

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BUSINESS HOURS: 0800-1600, Mountain Standard Time (MST) Monday Through Friday

Phone: 928-422-4035
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Email Address: simpegideon@yahoo.com

LEGAL

Rice & Associates is the sole owner of the information collected on this Web site. We only gather information we need to serve you better and will not - without your consent, - sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement except in cases where in good faith we believe that the law requires us to do so.

If it is necessary to protect Rice & Associates' rights and/or property, or if circumstances necessitate acting to protect the personal safety of staff or of the public we will notify you accordingly.

All information on this Web site is copyright 2004 by Rice & Associates.

WELCOME

Welcome to the Rice & Associates Web site. Our goal is to provide you with useful information about our company that we hope makes it easier for you to do business with Rice and Associates.

Rice & Associates has been serving the legal community since 1996 in various forms. We specialize in Torah based, estate planning, entity structuring, problem avoidance and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) through the Jural Society of Torah Assemblies (www.jsota.com). 

At this site, you will discover all about our services, as well as our courteous and resourceful staff.  

Why use us? TRAINING, TRAINING, TRAINING. AVOID PROBLEMS BEFORE THEY ARISE. Better to plan than fail to plan and plan to fail.

Training - See Training Page for Course Outline 080907

Feel free to browse around this site. If you have comments or questions about our products or services, or simply need more information and want to contact  us, click on the contact button on any page within this site.

Rice & Associate are not members of the State Bar of Arizona. Rice & Associates do teach various aspects of law, Torah, and prepare documents. Although Rice & Associates does teach and demonstrate written law, equity and admiralty, through the statutorily constructed scheme, none of its principles or associates give legal advice. We give options. You, the Student, choose your own educated path.

Thanks for visiting and we look forward to serving you.

NOTICE:

Believe it or not there is more than one Shawn Talbot Rice living on planet earth. I do not know them all, or even most of them. I am only one of them. If you do an internet search for my name you will find a smorgasbord of characters and types. However, there are approximately three negative reports that do apply to me found on the internet. Only one is true. In 1999, while I was the president of a club based organization called VOLITION, in Phoenix, Arizona, I did defy an illegal, administrative Securities and Exchange Commission Summons. In the fall of 1999, October, I accepted an agreement with a legal client for teaching his personnel of his organization (2,000) and building a legal team to support it. Days after accepting the agreement I was informed by the principals, “Oh, by the way, we have an SEC problem.” Three weeks later (first week of November 1999) I met with Michael Mesaros, U.S. State Department personnel in Counsel in Washington D.C. and SEC personnel in Denver, Colorado to investigate the allegations regarding said client’s investment programs. Both parties informed me that there was no investigation, no crime had been committed [by said client] and that there would be no summons – i.e. the Administrative Agents lied. Thereafter, I did defy the Administrative Summons. This subject matter was made public by a New Times Newspaper article from Denver, Colorado. You can read it on the internet.

Later (for whatever twisted reason of illogic) the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) decided to publish my name (a Messianic Rabbi) in their dirty deeds sections and lumped me together with said client when they were indicted for investment fraud, which they were guilty of, but which I had no involvement, notwithstanding teaching and providing legal support in the form of legal memorandum and coordinating the hiring of various attorneys. You do not always get to pick your clients nor do you really know your clients until the legal heat is increased.

The last, or third, negative report is about 10% correct and 90% fabrication. Said organization calls itself KYC News (www.offshorealert.com). It is a self appointed overseas protection racket that uses defamation of character to “protect” people from those accused, truthfully or not, from investment fraud. They give the appearance of operating a legitimate defensive posture but lack the fundamentals of due process of law in making their claims. And, what they published regarding me was just outright fabrications and twisted allegations of fiction. I have not been charged or convicted of anything.

I teach. I write. I perform mediation. I hold no ill will towards New Times, Inc. They simply reported the story as they saw it, complete or not. The ADL and KYC should be ashamed of themselves for such false and twisted reporting.

Why not litigate? It is defamation of character. However, the cost involved, time to sue, lost opportunities, etc., make pursuing a defamation of character suit not worth the time or effort. I learned years ago that survival is the best form of revenge. I am still here, performing everyday. You decide.

Shalom,

Rabbi Shawn Talbot Rice, JD