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- [MI/NC] Bartender took my (real) ID and passport and won't give them back!
- [Tucson, AZ] My husband accidentally gave me a big bruise on my face. An over-zealous coworker is convinced I’m being abused and talked about contacting police. Assuming he does, how big of a deal would it be and should we do anything preemptively?
- [Update]I'm am willingly sheltering my minor sister who is fleeing an arranged marriage proposal.
- [Update] [PA]Granting easement for landlocked property...questions
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- Took in a cat a year ago, yesterday the previous owner (coincidentally) found us. NJ
- Fired for for +marijuana test when consent form specifically states they do not test for thc, worth fighting? [CO]
- Aunt getting scammed by her "lover" getting her to change her and her sister's POA and will to him.
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| [MI/NC] Bartender took my (real) ID and passport and won't give them back! Posted: 29 Nov 2017 04:54 AM PST I'm a NC resident attending a MI 4 year college. I just turned 21 about a month ago, and I went to a dive bar/music venue to drink and watch a show. I look incredibly young in person, but my ID is up-to-date and so is my passport as well. The bartender confiscated my ID last night because it looked fake because: "it is out-of-state and your hair doesnt match." My hair is currently dark purple, but in my license picture it's black, it looks almost exactly the same in a dimly lit bar anyway! So I tell the bartender I have a passport and he is confiscating my real ID and he says he will believe me when I bring my passport. I retrieve my passport, which clearly shows my age, and this time I ask to speak to the manager. The manager REFUSES to give my ID back, saying he's going to call the police to confiscate it, AND THEN HE TAKES MY PASSPORT. No, I'm not kidding, I wish I was. He went on a rant about how I tried so hard to act "of age" and had all this fake proof and a fake life. By this point the venue is almost empty and the bouncers kick us out. I now have 0 forms of identification on me. What can I do here? I'm supposed to drive back home in 10 days for a wedding, and I'm worried that he did call the police, they told him it was real, and he threw them away or something. Please help! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 29 Nov 2017 07:32 AM PST I posted about this a few hours ago in the relationships sub, there was a bit of disagreement about potential consequences with police and I figured it wouldn't hurt to ask here. Basically, I had to get something from my husband at work a couple days ago. I wasn't as careful as I should have been and I walked towards him whil he had his back turned to me and was betting around a heavy metal pole, and he accidentally whacked me in the face with it. It was a complete accident and he felt terrible, but it left a nasty-looking bruise on my face. When I went into work yesterday/last night, a coworker saw it and approached me thinking I was being abused. I laughed it off and tried to explain how it was just a dumb accident, and really more my fault then my husband's, but my coworker thought I was "covering" for an abusive spouse. Coworker claims my husband "always looks angry" when dropping me off, and also says he is a certified paramedic and is able to tell that the bruise came from a fist instead of a pole. Despite my protests, he is trying to enlist aid from other coworkers and also threatened to contact police to "help" me if I don't. Obviously it's a stupid misunderstanding from someone who has no idea what they're talking about, but I'm nervous about him possibly calling the cops claiming I am abused, and them showing up, seeing I've got a big bruise, and misunderstanding the situation themselves. I live in AZ, and according to a google search and my extremely laymen's interpretation of the law, the DA can charge someone with domestic violence without the "victim's" cooperation, and it is apparently very hard to get those charges dropped without a trial. There was one person on my other thread claiming to be a lawyer who basically said it was next to impossible my husband would actually get charged based on a bruise and one persons suspicion, I just really want to make sure. I know a domestic violence arrest tends to stick with people regardless of how it goes at trial, and I really don't need to see my husband spend a night in jail over some BS from a coworker with a hero-complex. Is there any real risk he could be charged? What would happen if the police do a wellness check and find the injury? And is there anything my husband or I should do right now to prevent a worst-case-scenario? [link] [comments]  |
| [Update]I'm am willingly sheltering my minor sister who is fleeing an arranged marriage proposal. Posted: 28 Nov 2017 06:25 PM PST I felt like I neglected you masses that provided us with so many suggestions in our time of need. I was advised to not post anonymously about this topic until the court proceedings were closed as it may impact our case. Now that it is closed, My sister is safe and sound residing at our house LEGALLY! I am her temporary guardian until her birthday at which point she is more then welcome to stay so she can pursue university. It was without heartbreak, like me she was disowned by my father. He is stubborn and set in his ways, he won't change. Edit: Wow another overwhelming response to our plight, I'll try to answer any questions in between shifts today. First. My father isn't an evil hateful man. There is no threat to our physical safety, we hope with time and as progressive liberal values breach religious ideology we will amend our relationship. Second point on arraigned marriages, my families standing ensured that our agreed suitors were of similar means; our rejection and flight hurt his standing. I know this concept is foreign to my American friends, but our marriages were very much a singular point in a greater interwoven network of dealings. I'M NOT JUSTIFYING the practice, its abhorrent; but its a custom in a large part if the world today. We both gave up "wealth" for individual freedoms. While our risk was low due to our family standing, relocating to a country with tighter controls on freedoms made the potential for exploitation a real possibility. The real tragedy is women of low standing forced into marriages that are one sided, that's the tale of caution told to me, I shared with you. [link] [comments]  |
| [Update] [PA]Granting easement for landlocked property...questions Posted: 29 Nov 2017 06:50 AM PST Update from: https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/42jchb/pa_granting_easement_for_landlocked/ So in the end I offered $3,000 for this buyer. Then I hear nothing for about 4 months. Then a lawyer representing Freddie Mac contacts me and wants to make a deal since the buyer backed out. I tell them due to being ignored and getting tired of being in limbo...$10,000. To my surprise they slowly (like federal gov't movement) agree without hesitation and I sign papers exactly as they wrote it with only name changes and after a month they release the check. The day it is released, I list the house and sell it within 45 days of listing for a nice profit over what I bought it for. Happy days plus I got the easement money. About 6 months after the house is sold I get served court papers. Freddie Mac is suing myself and the new owners for an invalid easement. I work away from home a large percentage of the year so I have a general POA over all my finances, property, etc for my wife and my mother. I was away at the time of the check signing so I had my mother POA the easement deal. The notary at my attorney had signed the easement deal as if I had personally appeared and signed it over but all the signatures show my mother using POA. The county recorder rejected the easement deal leaving us in this situation saying it was invalid. After some further talking with Freddie Mac and my attorney they contact us that they are fine if I just come in and personally resign all the papers even though the house is no longer mine. I resign everything and 1 month later I get court papers saying the case was dropped. Appears to be all settled now. Thanks for enjoying the roller coaster ride. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 29 Nov 2017 07:01 AM PST Im incredibly furious right now so I'll try to keep this short. Im in Tampa, FL I gave my roommate my half of the rent money last night, and he put it in the center console. This morning we go out to the car and its repo'd. Called the repo place and they claim theres $900 out of the original $1200 there. We had the money in a labeled ziplock bag with the amounts on it. Any chance I can do something about this? Or am I just out $300? They claim they were on camera, but obviously there isn't a camera inside his car. Now theyre threatening to press false allegation charges. What are my options guys? [link] [comments]  |
| Took in a cat a year ago, yesterday the previous owner (coincidentally) found us. NJ Posted: 29 Nov 2017 05:56 AM PST So, my wife is a teacher. Last year when the school year started up (Sept 2016) she got out of the car by the school, and a cat ran up to her and started rubbing against her and let her pet him and even tried to follow her into the school. The maintenance guys said he was there all summer, along with a few other cats that the neighborhood people feed. My wife could tell this was someone's cat, and we caught him and took him to the vet to see if he had a microchip, which he did. The vet told us the cat had a file where he was described as an indoor/outdoor cat. They called the owners and left a voicemail saying they had their cat. The people never called back. The vet told us the block (but not the address) the people lived on, and I was familiar enough to know a house there had recently been sold. I assumed when they never called back they had moved and left the cat behind. We took care of him for a few weeks and tried to find someone to take hi (we already had 2 cats and weren't looking for a third). After a few weeks of no luck, we had become attached and decided to keep him. This was over a year ago. Yesterday, one of my wife's coworkers tells her that someone else in the school mentioned that last June she let her cat out and he never came back, and they assumed he died. They claimed to have looked for him for weeks but couldn't find him. There's no question this was her cat, as the description matches, and the name she said was the name the vet said was his name in their file, and she lives on the same block-long street we were told he was living before. This woman told my wife's friend that she'd like a picture to see that he's ok. She has no said anything about wanting the cat back. I'm not trying to manufacture an issue, but IF she decides to try to claim this cat, what does the law say? SUMMARY: My wife and I took in a cat more than a year ago after making a sincere effort to contact the owner. The owner didn't return the voicemail saying he was at the vet. Does the previous owner have any legal claim to this cat anymore? My wife and I are worried she will try to get him back, although so far she hasn't. Knowing the law could really put our minds at ease. Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 29 Nov 2017 09:34 AM PST Applied for a job at a large company and in the application one of the questions contains "All employees may be subject to a pre-employment drug test, however, this position does not test for thc (marijuana)..." Upon completing the application I got a phone call to come in for an interview in the morning and after the interview I was offered the job and went to HR to fill out paperwork where I was also given the drug test. Five days later I was asked to come in for my first day of training. Once home after training I got a call from the HR manager telling me they would not be hiring me because my test came back positive for marijuana. Without admitting or denying the result I mentioned what I remembered reading in the application to which he cut me off and told me I was wrong and this position does require a test for marijuana. After the call I pulled up a pdf of the application and sure enough it says exactly what I thought. So I called the hiring manager to try to get an explanation. He was as surprised as me that I was fired over the test and told me there is an appeals process and that he would try at the very least to make things right since the result means I cannot apply to a job with the very large company for 6 months. I told him I had a copy of the application and he got quiet. He asked if he could call back and did 30 seconds later saying that the HR manager wanted me to send a copy, if I could (calling my potential bluff?), so I sent it to them and didn't hear back for over a week. Finally I emailed them yesterday asking whether I could work this week as planned, and if not, what's the appeals process they mentioned. I received a cookie cutter "sorry but we won't be hiring you because the pre-employment conditions were not completed. Thanks for your interest" email from the corporate no-reply address. I have documentation of pretty much all of our contact, including proof that I worked, a copy of the application stating they don't test, and a recording of the manager apologizing for their mistake and telling me he'd make it right since I had no reason to believe this would happen. I am wondering whether it is worth fighting them, I'm currently looking for lawyers in the area, but money is tight since I thought I was going to be working and now I'm not. I feel wronged in that they mislead me about the test, mislead me about the chance to appeal (if there's an appeals process why wasn't I given that opportunity??), and they mislead me into thinking we were going to work this out so for the past 3 weeks since I was hired I haven't been seriously searching for another job. And now my job options are severely limited as it's late in the season and this company is a big employer in the area that I can't apply to work at for 6 months. So, other than feeling wronged, do I have any legal recourse? Thanks for any advice! [link] [comments]  |
| Aunt getting scammed by her "lover" getting her to change her and her sister's POA and will to him. Posted: 29 Nov 2017 08:46 AM PST I live in Ohio along with much of my extended family. The issue I'm having revolves around two Great Aunts of mine. The first one (Aunt 1 in this story) had a durable POA and all paperwork completed back in 2011. Her mental state started deteriorating over the last year significantly. In September 2017 she got into an altercation with her primary POA (wasn't really sound state of mind) and she went to her lawyer and changed her primary POA to my other Aunt (Aunt 2) and put her boyfriend (which nobody (even Aunt 1) had ever met) as secondary on her will. So a few weeks ago Aunt 1 started exhibiting some severe dementia and had to be put into a behavioral ward of the hospital. We did not find out about this until two weeks after when one of Aunt 1's friends said she was asking for them to reach out to family. Apparently Aunt 2 was notified but she did not notify any family members. Of course I rushed to the hospital as soon as I found out but she is just completely out of it and mostly unresponsive. That same day Aunt 2 took her "boyfriend" to the bank Aunt 1's finances are at and tried using an old POA that had her listed as a secondary to my grandfather (who had died) to add this "boyfriend" to Aunt 1's accounts. Aunt 2 called my mother to get my grandfather's death certificate to process this change. That's where we realized what was going on. Through talking to Aunt 2, we found out that she had her friend put as the sole executor of her will and full POA over her. Aunt 2 is not doing well mentally either. Last year APS came over to do a incompetence check (along with the police) because her financial institution noticed she was spending a significant amount more than she typically did and notified the police. The found that this boyfriend was taking around $10k a month from her. He was also bringing guys in to haul stuff out of her house and sell it. Aunt 2 never got the money, she would just say she gave it to them. Last night I found out her "boyfriend" had all of Aunt 1's paperwork at his house and I had to step in. I said I was coming over (it's an hour and a half drive) to pick up the documents. I just told her all we'd be doing is going and picking up the documents from him then going out for dinner. When I got there she was already on the phone with him. He wanted to talk to me. I spoke with him for a few minutes and when it became clear I was coming for the paperwork he said he'd never give it to me and that "my aunt didn't trust me with them" (which is insane). We started arguing and then he hung up on me. At which point I turned off the phone (Because he was constantly calling back while I was trying to talk to my Aunt). I spent the next 4 hours explaining how this guy was conning her and as I found out through public records, was married to another woman. She kept saying about how he's such a nice guy and how we need to get to know him. I told him he hung up on both me and my father which she didn't believe. She kept saying she just wanted to "let it go". I gave her hundreds of reasons why what was happening was dangerous and that we just wanted to protect both her and her sister. She would agree with me but then waver again. She did not want to go over there and get the paperwork. After 4 hours of trying to convince her we started to get ready to go out and she started faltering again. My parents called at that point and at the same time the police started knocking at the door. Ends up this guy did a "wellness check" on her because I had turned off the phone after I turned off the phone. Since then the phone had been turned on though (and she had it). I decided that I'd talk to the police officers about it and see if they knew anything. They told me that he had a pretty lengthy criminal past as recent as last year for theft. No outstanding warrants, but the officer responding to the wellness check knew my aunt well and he was extremely upset about the whole situation saying how he has tried many times to warn her about this guy but she just doesn't listen. He said how frustrating it was because this guy is "100% conning her". During this time her neighbor came over and told all sorts of horror stories about this guy and how everyone in the neighborhood have been trying to warn her about him. When I got back into the house my aunt was getting off the phone and said my parents wanted to talk to me. They said she was willing to then go over and ask for the paperwork (this is 6 hours after I first got there) but I couldn't go to the door when we go there. When we eventually arrived, she was visibly scared. I told her everything would be alright and she asked if I would go to the door with her. Of course I obliged. The guy gave me an earful about how we're "bullying her" and told her how she shouldn't let us push her around (ironic right?). After a bit of this and her telling him three times to just give me the papers he finally did (not convinced it is all of them because there are over 1000 pages and I just got them last night). So we've spoken with around 5 different lawyers, who say it's too hard to make a case that her September changes were not made with sound mind and none seem to want anything to do with the situation. We've spoken to the police that say we can't do anything because APS says she's not incompetent and if she chooses to give her money to this man then she can. Ultimately I could give two shits about the money. I just can't stand to see my Aunt get taken advantage like this, and it's sickening to see Aunt 1, who had planned so far in advance for things like this, get wrapped up in this as well. This piece of trash will take both of them for all that they have and I feel like there is nothing that we can do to stop it. I feel like I've done everything I have but am hoping there's still something that can be done. Guardianship seems out of the question since they can't be declared incompetent (as said today by APS). Today, I found out that Aunt 2 and her "boyfriend" were back at the bank trying to get access to Aunt 1's accounts again. But while there, Aunt 2 added this friend as a "coowner" on all of Aunt 2's accounts. She refused to come home with us and stay with us for a few days even though we were really trying to just get her out of the situation. When I tell her that he has a very recent criminal past and the cops warned me about him she shrugged it off. When I told her that he is married and owns a house (and lives with) his wife. She said that was just his "lady friend" and that they weren't in a relationship (even though I showed her the public court record of their marriage). She just doesn't process information and it's terrifying to see her get taken advantage like this. When we did go get dinner (by this time it was 11:00pm) she spent the whole time talking about how nice he was and what a great guy he is.... It literally made me sick. There has to be something I can do to stop this before it's too late. Right now I think me having the documents will prevent Aunt 2 from getting access to Aunt 1's accounts but I think that will only last for so long. Does anyone have any ideas as to what I could do to help stop this before it gets any further? TLDR; Aunt 2 is getting conned by a guy who had her put him as her primary POA and primary executor of will. Aunt 2 had Aunt 1 (who has dementia) put Aunt 2 as her primary POA in September this year and also put this guy as secondary on Aunt 1's will. APS says neither are incompetent (apparently vascular dementia is not grounds for incompetence) but they recognize that he's setting up to take everything from both of them. Police say that although he has a large criminal past, he has no outstanding warrants and nothing can really be done about him. EDIT: I also wanted to note that I'm afraid that the probate process would take too long to get guardianship even if that was an option. [link] [comments]  |
| Officer showed up at my grandmas looking for me but it seems shady (PA) Posted: 29 Nov 2017 08:11 AM PST I live in Somerset county PA. A few years ago I had a good job and financed a new car. About a year later I lost my job and tried to keep up with the payments as best as I could but eventually I offered the car for a voluntary repossession. They auctioned the vehicle and I was on the hook for the remainder, about 6,000 dollars. I've been paying what I could but times are tough right now. Today my grandma called me at work and said a state police officer stopped at her house looking for me and said that there was a civil suit against me over the car and they needed to talk to me. I called the state police barracks for my county and they said there was no officers in my town and that they wouldn't be dealing with a civil suit anyways so it wasn't them. I'm going to call the loan company when I get off work but who would be looking for me if it isn't a cop and is it legal for them to identify themselves as a police officer. [link] [comments]  |
| My cat ran away. A neighbor says it died but won't tell me details. [Missouri] Posted: 29 Nov 2017 10:34 AM PST Edit/update. She took the cat to a vet two towns over. I found this out by extending my call radius to include that town. The vet says the cat was mauled by a large animal, probably a dog. This woman has a few big dogs, including two that are more aggressive. So my cat ran away yesterday. We put up signs and posters and plastered local Facebook groups. Today a neighbor texted me and said that she thinks she found my cat. She just kept repeating herself that the cat was in bad shape, so she took it to the vet. The vet promptly euthanized it. My neighbor refuses to tell me what vet, when she took it in, etc. She repeated herself a lot while we talked, like she was trying to convince me of a lie. I've called every local vet and none of them had my cat come through. My neighbor frequently cares for a lot of dogs. I don't know if they're strays or if she's a host for an adoption agency, but she always has new dogs cycling through. She also says she has a $500 vet bill that she wants me to pay. I'm suspicious that maybe one of the dogs she watches killed my cat and she's trying to hide it. What can I do? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 29 Nov 2017 10:31 AM PST (NEW JERSEY) Without going into personal details, there was a time in our household where we had to keep the firearm at his sister's place for a short period. However, now his sister is refusing to give back the firearm because she believes he cannot be trusted (even though he passed all checks and his doctor said he is permitted to own firearms). She recently told my husband that she is thinking about taking it to the shooting range and also selling it and giving him whatever she gets for it. This doesn't feel right nor legal. What can my husband do to get his firearm back, small or big? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 29 Nov 2017 08:18 AM PST So I work at a institution that passively signed up all their employees for a 403b. Supposedly I was told of this via reg mail. I do not make the majority of my income from this place and do not receive any benefits from them and often receive mail from them that does not apply to me, and perhaps I tossed it out. I certainly did not receive a piece of mail, sign it, and return it back to them. Frankly I didn't notice that they withheld $160 until after the 2 pay cycle to reverse the payment. When I called and asked to have it reversed, they said they couldn't until year end. Well now its year end, I sat down with the rep. she said she would need a signed letter requesting my money back (even though none was required from them to take my money), and a statement from my current 403b showing that I'm maxed out. I think that's intrusive and unnecessary. They didn't need this information when they diverted my paycheck to this company. Most of me wants to tell them to go pound sand and give me back my money. Is this common? Legal? Do I comply because of the effort? Any advice is appreciated. As to why I don't want this 403b. I don't want a random $160 sitting in some random financial service somewhere. [link] [comments]  |
| [CO] No heat in my apartment for months Posted: 29 Nov 2017 05:38 AM PST Back in September my landlord let us (the tenants) know that the boiler in our building was broken and needed to be replaced. She said it would take a few weeks, but until then she provided every unit with a small electric heater and offered to cap our electric bill since space heaters draw power like a vampire. Near the beginning of October, a second notice was posted saying the new boiler would be installed at the end of that week. Now it's the end of November and still no heat. I reached out to my landlord twice via email asking about the heat, and both times she assured me it would be done within the week. I was willing to be patient before since we've had pretry warm weather, but now it's winter. It's freezing outside, and my tiny electric heater is costing me a lot in electricity with little effect. I've combed through my lease and Colorado state laws looking for something to bring to my landlord, but idk what I'm looking for. Has my landlord broken the lease? Can I refuse rent until the heat is fixed? Can I move out before my lease ends? [link] [comments]  |
| Having an issue with a neighbour, who also works for the property management company we rent from. Posted: 29 Nov 2017 06:56 AM PST My husband and I live in a single family home above a garage. We share a courtyard with two homes: a vacation rental home and permanent neighbours. The garage is shared by all three households. We moved into the residence in September, for a one year lease. The permanent residents were very nice at first, they are an older woman and her platonic roommate, we had no issues with them. About a month ago, her boyfriend moved in, he's a UK citizen who told us he's staying until Christmas, so he's here for almost another month. As soon as he moved in, he started using the shared garage as his personal art studio, and playing loud music all day long. My husband and I asked him to turn it down, he did initially but within a few days he started playing it again. One time when we went down to approach them about it, we walked in on he and his girlfriend having sex on top of their car. A week or so later, the music was very loud and we went down to speak to him about it, and the garage door was locked. The next day we reported it to management again, they came out to speak to us, and told us the door shouldn't be locked, and gave my husband permission to take the locks off the doors. The neighbour's boyfriend (the neighbour has not spoken to us since the first report was made, her boyfriend who is not on the lease and is it's a temporary unauthorised guest is the only person who has spoken to us about this) came to our door asking us why we complained, and asked if he could come into our bedroom and listen to how loud the noise is in the garage, and "come to a compromise on the noise level." We refused. The noise issue in the garage seemed to have stopped. However, now he spends nearly all his time in the garage, which isn't meant to be used as a residential space. My husband and I are uncomfortable having sex or even having a conversation with each other because we know he is downstairs listening to everything we do. Because it's starting to affect our right to privacy and our ability to be sexually active, we went to the management company again to let them know that this is unacceptable. The management office told me that "she will be told about it today, and if it happens again she will be evicted, I don't care if she works for us or not." Last night, my husband and I were trying to watch television, and we were unable to do so because the neighbours were playing loud music from the home. We went out to the courtyard and saw that their back door (the door with access to the courtyard, which also faces our home) was wide open, and no one was on their porch, and that they were doing this intentionally just to annoy us. We went into the management office again today, this time with a video of it. The management company told us the same thing, "if it happens one more time she will be evicted." We are beginning to get frustrated, so we asked for a break on our rent this month, because this has been a shitty way to live and they've been inactive in dealing with this, and I have to keep taking time off work every day (I'm a commercial driver so I drive to the office during work time, because they are only open during the time that I work) to deal with this. They said they will speak to the owner of the property about it. This evening, while we were making dinner, the guy came to the door again, and we told him to leave our porch and that we don't feel like discussing it with him anymore, and that we are just going to go through the management company. He didn't leave, and started claiming that they weren't home last night. When we told him we had it in video, he changed his story to "yeah, but you'll have to learn to live with it." We are going back to the office tomorrow, but we are not hopeful that it's going to be dealt with, based on how lax the management company has been so far. We are considering suing them because of this, because we are subjected to bad neighbours who are now intentionally harassing us, and knowingly breaking the rules of this property, because she rents from this company, but also works for them and is friends with some of the people in the office. We are also considering getting in touch with a lawyer in the morning. Do we have a legal case if we decide to sue them because of their inaction due to conflict of interest? [link] [comments]  |
| My father killed himself and my family thinks his sister is attempting to take his estate. Posted: 29 Nov 2017 07:56 AM PST Sorry Reddit, this is gonna be a long one. My dad committed suicide fifteen days ago, and with my poor grandfather being over 80 years old now, he's left the handling of the affairs to his eldest daughter. She immediately began taking possessions from the house my dad shared with my grandfather, including jewelry, keepsakes, pawn records, and the auto loan forms pertaining to my dad's truck, which he told multiple people would go to me if something ever happened to him. With such a sudden and unexpected death, he had no official will or beneficiaries for his estate. He was only 49 years old and none of us thought he would ever do something like this. My aunt claims the funeral is going to cost $8,000 and set up a GoFundMe for it, but we've seen the funeral home forms and the cost is half that. However, her goal amount is just enough for the funeral and to pay off the truck.. My grandfather offered the truck to me, only to find the papers for it were missing when he tried to give them to me. Distraught as he is, I didn't have the heart to tell him my aunt had already taken them and is lying about how much money we need. She also let us know that she told my father's insurance company, on our behalf, that we (my sisters and I) agreed to give her any life insurance money we may be eligible for so she can put it toward the funeral arrangements. What can I do to stop her from taking his belongings from us? In addition to his truck, my three younger sisters were shocked to see keepsakes like his favorite cowboy hats, colognes, and rings all gone, and I don't want them to lose something so important to them. We live in Texas if this is covered by state law. TL;DR: My aunt is taking my deceased father's estate for herself and I need help stopping her. Thanks, ya'll that made it this far. [link] [comments]  |
| I recorded my surgery and discovered I was charged for a procedure they didn't do Posted: 28 Nov 2017 09:18 PM PST (Tennessee) I had an IUD inserted by a nurse practitioner last month. Worst pain I've ever experienced, and the horrible cramping didn't subside after a couple weeks so I got an ultrasound which revealed that it was sideways and embedded in my uterus (that's bad). It was unbearably painful having it inserted, so I opted to have it removed and replaced with a different brand of IUD (by the doctor this time) with general anesthesia. They told me that the doctor was going to do a hysteroscopy or laparoscopy to locate the old IUD and get it out. Tennessee is a one party consent state, so I decided to record audio of my surgery while I was sedated. I listened to it afterward and the conversation in the room can be heard clearly (I was still yelling in pain quite a lot, I just don't remember any of it). After the doctor was done (but before I was fully awake) the nurse remarked, "She was scheduled for a hysteroscopy but it came right out! I guess they didn't need it." I made note of this in case they ended up billing me for it. Sure enough, I received the EOB from Anthem today, and the medical office filed the claim with the CPT code for "Hysteroscopy, surgical; with removal of impacted foreign body" (58562) instead of the code for simply removing an IUD (58301). I haven't received a bill from the doctor's office yet, but the EOB stated that I'll be responsible for paying about $500. Now, I work in a surgeon's office and I know that filing with insurance is tricky and mistakes happen. Maybe the doctor forgot to change the code before it was sent to billing. Maybe they intentionally up-coded so insurance would pay for the anesthesia. Regardless, I don't want to be on the hook for $500 for something I didn't have done! How should I approach this? Edit: added location (Tennessee) [link] [comments]  |
| My daughter's new dentist found multiple cavities that he said were missed by her last dentist. Posted: 29 Nov 2017 08:36 AM PST Georgia, US The new dentist said the old dentist misread her x-rays. Now, the cavities have progressed to the point where she needs general anesthesia to fix them all (because she's 4) and it's gonna cost over $1,000. Do I have any legal recourse to hold the first dentist financially responsible for incorrectly reading her scans? Edit: We completely trust the new dentist. He's been amazing so far. She's been there for 6 months and already had a couple fillings (she inherited my soft, cavity-prone teeth). We switched dentists because the previous one said he didn't really treat children, even though he's a "family" dentist. [link] [comments]  |
| My bike was stolen, and I may have found the guy who has it. But do I have a leg to stand on? Posted: 29 Nov 2017 10:57 AM PST My bike was stolen a couple of months ago, out of a friends yard. I never reported it because I figured the city had bigger things to worry about and is too corrupt to care. While browsing LetGo today, I thought I would search the bike section to see if it pops up (I had also been studying each bike I saw throughout my travels. This was only a big deal because my girlfriend and I had also lost our cars recently and this was one of our last forms of transportation). So I come across the exact same colour and model. The guy selling it has also sold a LOT of bikes in the past, which seems fishy to me. I don't have a receipt from the original seller but I have her photo of the bike, our LetGo conversation and maybe text messages that show our plans to meet and exchange. I can probably contact her to confirm our purchasing of the bike. I also have a Facebook post dated of a requested BOLO shortly after the bike was stolen. Plus the friends whose yard the bike was stolen from can corroborate. But I have no proof this guy has my actual bike. I remember that when we bought it, the chain was particularly rusty, and it had a distinct click sound when you walked with it. Those things are easy to replace, so can't tell if his bike is new or fixed up. Not sure of the weight of the pieces of "evidence" that I have. I have contacted him on LetGo to see if it's available and if he has additional photos. I suppose I can ask if he has the receipt as well...? If I brought this to my police station, would they be able to do anything? Any help appreciated, thank you. Edit: sorry for wall of post. Mobile device. Location: Pennsylvania, city pop of about 70,000 if that matters [link] [comments]  |
| A woman in another state is trying to convince my 16 year old son to move in with her Posted: 28 Nov 2017 01:48 PM PST I'm in AZ, other mom is in TX. My daughter (19) has been best friends with a girl in TX since we lived there. They have kept in contact via phone, her daughter has visited here, mine has visited there. During the last visit (just before her 18th bithday) daughter came home and announced her plans to move to TX and in with this mother and her 4 kids when she was of age. The plan was to go there and work, help contribute to the family income, help babysit the kids, and eventually go to college there. Despite my family and I telling her this was a bad idea, she held firm. The other mother never called or consulted me on this matter.
I found out last week that the mother has secretly been in contact with my just-turned-16 year old son. They have been speaking on the phone, over texts, and she has been buying him things online and offering to buy more. She has also convinced him that moving to TX when his older sister plans to leave in the spring is a good idea, and coaching him on how to ask me to sign over guardianship.
Obviusly, ex husband and I plan to sit the kids down (tomorrow night) and outline that this is predatory behavior and how moving in and working to support this woman's kids is not in their best intererests. And that we in no way will be signing over guardianship. No more phone contact, parental monitoring goes on his phone from now on, son will be going to therapy etc. And that older daughter is not to act as other mother's proxy or pass messages to son (which is how this started, apparently).
I know that kids sometimes wish to move in with friends when there is abuse or neglect at home, but that is not the case here. I believe this woman is a con artist and has actively been grooming my son, at least in hopes of making him an additional income stream, possibly more (and tomorrow night I will download his text history and access every platform they have communicated on. Also pulling my home phone records to see frequency and duration of calls from the home phone).
Then ex-husband and I will place a call to her and tell her to cease all contact with son and not to use older daughter as her proxy.
So, I'm not here for parenting advice. I need to know which jurisdiction this falls under. If things do not cease, or if they escalate, do I file a restraining order in AZ or TX? Can I file in AZ, and have her served in TX? Will a restraining order be valid across state lines?
If I need to contact the police, do I contact local police or police in her city? Thank you. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 29 Nov 2017 05:27 AM PST My GF is currently doing travel nursing and working in a hospital that is according to her, doing everything wrong. From hanging chemo they don't monitor the infusion, the chemo system isn't a true closed system when it should be, there's poor hygiene, PPE isn't worn, etc. I told her that she should report it, she said she did and the supervisors and other nurses simply shrug it off and say that's how they do it there. What course of action is best to get them back in to shape? She's in Oklahoma, don't want to get too specific on what exact location. [link] [comments]  |
| Employee taking frequent sick days is causing issues. Is there anything we as the company can do? Posted: 29 Nov 2017 09:56 AM PST As the title suggests. We're in Ontario, Canada. We work in an extended health service based industry. I don't want to get into specifics, but the employee in question works for us full time, provides a service, and gets paid per service (as opposed to hourly/salary). I'll call her Sue. Sue is considered a medical professional in our province. We have less than 20 employees and while it's a health related field, it's not one that would cause illness as patients aren't coming in due to being sick. We are similar to a massage clinic. Sue is sick a lot. Sue has told me that she suffers from anxiety which she takes medication for. This medication causes her nausea which normally is the cause of her calling in sick, although sometimes the nausea causes other issues like lack of sleep, etc. Sue used to call in sick more frequently in the past (~a year ago) but things had been getting better until about September. Sue is normally working with us 6 hours on the days that she does work and normally her schedule is completely fully booked with patients. When she calls in sick, we try our best to get someone in to cover for Sue, but normally we are unable to get someone on such sort notice (normally under 4hrs). This causes our patients to become upset because we have to cancel on them and sometimes it also costs our business in either complimentary services or loss of future sales. I'm at my wit's end and don't know what to do. I could ask her for a doctor's note if she's consecutively sick for 3 days in a row, but I don't think that'll help the issue much. I don't want to fire her either, as she is generally a good employee. But am I allowed to talk to her about the frequency of sick days? I wonder if maybe changing her bookings so that she only has same-day bookings would be the best for her. TL;DR: employee is frequently sick due to a medication she takes for anxiety. We are a service based business so our customers are getting very upset that we have to cancel their appointments due to this appointment being sick and it reflects poorly on us as a business and costs us $$. Is there anything we can do? [link] [comments]  |
| My SO's ex is breaking child custody agreement and endangering her kids' health Posted: 29 Nov 2017 04:21 AM PST Location: West Virginia. I'm going to try and be as vague as possible here, because I really don't want anyone involved to come across this post. My SO has two kids, one is 5 and the other is 13. In the divorce, the agreed upon vistation/custody schedule was 50/50, a few days with my SO and a few days with the ex every week, with a few minor deviations for emergencies and holidays. Problem #1: For the past year or so, the ex has been (seemingly) doing everything possible to avoid taking the kids when it's their turn. There is ALWAYS an excuse (i.e. the ex and the ex's current spouse are sick, the toilet at the house is clogged, the AC/heat isn't working, etc.) My SO and I have had the kids for a month straight... and this is the second time this year it's happened, in addition to taking them on other random days that aren't ours. We have both caught the ex lying multiple times about having doctor's appointments when in reality the ex and the ex's spouse were having a date night at the movies, so you understand why we both have trust issues about the ex breaking the visitation/custody schedule. I don't mind having the kids around full time, but the issue is that the ex is collecting benefits from the state because of the kids (i.e. Medical cards and food stamps). I'm pretty sure the fact that we've had them nonstop for about 45 days now and the fact that the ex is still getting assistance is illegal, right? I told my SO that the ex needs to be told either to get back on the 50/50 schedule or give us full custody... it seems very unfair and unhealthy for these kids to be jerked around and have the schedule changed on them (and us) at the drop of a hat, whenever it's convenient for the ex. Problem #2: Last year, the 5 year old started getting really sick. When we still were going by the 50/50 custody schedule, the 5 year old would come back to us coughing, wheezing, and having horrible allergies. Both of the kids would smell awful coming back. Come to find out, the ex wouldn't bathe them at all, and the ex and the spouse were both smoking indoors and in the car. The youngest has developed asthma and chronic bronchitis because of this, and will likely be on steroids forever. CPS was called, and the ex was told to stop smoking indoors and to clean the house top to bottom because of the smoke/tar residue. Is there anything I can do about this? My SO doesn't want to go back to court, but I believe the ex either needs to get back on the schedule or give us full custody. The kids aren't safe with the ex, and we have them 95% of the time anyway. It'd help a lot if we were able to get assistance, since we are essentially raising the kids without the ex's help. Also, will calling CPS about the smoking/indoor cats do anything? As I said, CPS has been called (more than once) about the ex's living conditions, so they do have a record, but I don't want to stir up crap if it's not going to help. What can I do (or advise my SO to do)? EDIT: I should also mention that no child support is being provided on either end. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 29 Nov 2017 11:05 AM PST Hello, I have rented an apartment on February 2016 and paid first, last, and deposit. Last month and deposit were paid via certified checks. First month was paid in cash directly to the broker who gave me a receipt that I still have. My landlord has been harassing me for months now saying that I didn't pay my July 2017 rent (last month rent on my lease, that was then renewed). He's saying that he can't get ahold of his broker... and that it's somehow proof that I did not pay. I'm pretty worried he'll try to keep my deposit. Also, I rented the apartment next door at the same time (Feb 2016) and paid first last and deposit. This time using only certified checks so no worries on this one. Never late on payments or anything. Rent was increased by $500 (he initially offered $1000 increase) when the lease were renewed, don't even know if that's legal. What can I do? Thank you! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 29 Nov 2017 12:57 PM PST A married couple I lived with moved out on their own accord after they had a string of fights ranging from shouting matches, to physical altercations. The wife had tried to kill herself multiple times, once resulting in the police being called. I had also called the police during one of their fights, and that is the reason they're refusing to pay for their last months agreed upon share of the utilities. Our agreement was that we split the utilities evenly between all the people in our house. They're upset that I had called the police, and that the bill was significantly higher than normal (due to the wife's use an old space heater and passing out drunk with the shower/ bath running). Could I take these people to small claims? They were never on the lease but it was clear that they lived there for months, I have witnesses and the police reports. Also I have text messages from the husband saying that he would pay up on his utilities. Thanks in advance for your advice! [link] [comments]  |
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