Legal Advice UPDATE+QUESTIONS - My ex wife’s boyfriend is abusing my kids and the custody hearing isn’t until after I’m supposed to bring them back |
- UPDATE+QUESTIONS - My ex wife’s boyfriend is abusing my kids and the custody hearing isn’t until after I’m supposed to bring them back
- Final Update: They're taking my child
- [OH] My grandma was just scammed out of $4,000 from the car crash scam.
- School cut my wife's pay after returning from maternity leave.
- Wife and I splitting. Wife informed me today she is going to cash out her retirement and give me half. How do I stop this from happening?
- Neighbors from hell, complete with the hounds. (Oklahoma)
- Coworker accidentally consumed my breast milk
- I quit. Ex-employer sending emails and signing them from me.
- A guy bought my car and wants to sue me.
- Can I record a cps interview? Nys
- My girlfriend's company is forcing her to do reposessions. Is that legal?
- UPDATE: My friend confided a hit and run incident in me - What is my responsibility now?
- My neighbor stole my dog. He's now got the sack to walk MY DOG around the block and claim he's not mine.
- I [18m] broke up with my girlfriend [23f] of 2 years today, but she threatened to ruin my life if I don't stay with her and claims to be pregnant with my child.
- Landlord won't give building key to mail carrier - Washington, DC
- Missouri Psychiatric Hospital Strip Search Laws?
- I have no people and need an emergency contact. Is this something I could get a lawyer for?
- [FL] Trespassers/Squatters Burned Down Gutted, Secured Mobile Home Set For Demolition
- Postal inspector accused me of receiving marijuana in mail
- Suspected child abuse and claims of rape (CO)
- I was employed by the BSA as a camp counselor and they did not pay me nearly $1000 of my salary
- Looking for the best way to disentangle my elderly mother from a timeshare (NC)
- Tenant/Landlord question: Unable to use garage that is included in my rent (Alaska).
| Posted: 28 Mar 2018 11:07 PM PDT [Michigan, USA] Question 1: My lawyer is telling me to be prepared for my ex to say I abused the kids and coached them to lie. Is there anything I can do to get out in front of that? Question 2: I wouldn't be surprised if the boyfriend has been abusing my ex wife. My lawyer said if this is the case she might use that as a defense for not stepping in when the kids were being beaten mercilessly by a grown adult man. If this surfaces does it help or hurt my efforts to keep the kids in my custody? See below for a link to my original post and an update on where we are right now. — My lawyer agreed he didn't have the background to handle this case and connected me to a different lawyer with experience in these cases and family court, who is also being very generous with her rates. In the meantime my ex wife arrived out of nowhere to try and take the kids back. I hadn't gone into the driveway yet and the kids were tuned into their iPads with headphones on so we went on a spontaneous ice cream run. CPS is heavily involved and six separate reports were made (originally I had written five but I forgot my first lawyer also filed a report at the instruction of my new lawyer). So, his, mine, my new lawyer's, the ER doctor, the police who were called to the ER, and their school counselor (at the advice of my new, far more aggressive, lawyer.) The reports are almost definitely what backed the judge into the corner of having to grant the hearing. I'm too nervous to sleep. The boys slept some. They seem a bit calmer. Hoping for good news and thank you for all the good advice. I now see I really needed that new lawyer and filing the multiple reports and getting an exam was the best course of action. — UPDATE: Thank you all for your excellent advice. My lawyer is aware that I'm posting on here and said it's alright - especially since she recognizes she can't make herself as available as she would if I were a regular client through her firm paying full freight. She's been wonderful. The hearing was pushed back by a couple hours but we can't leave in case they can see us sooner so we're waiting now. I'm exceptionally freaked out but my lawyer seems deeply confident it will be open and shut. (The case worker isn't visiting the house until this afternoon but apparently she's already visited my ex's house and talked to the boyfriend and her conclusion from that was to recommend they stay with me.) The boys have had some interviews and exams with CPS that sound like they went as well as they could have and the things that didn't go well will help me get them home and safe. After this process my next step is an order of no contact on the boyfriend or a restraining order if I can swing it. Will have to ask the lawyer. But she agrees we do need something official in place to keep him at bay. A buddy is installing a couple security cameras today. Thanks for those who recommended that. [link] [comments]  |
| Final Update: They're taking my child Posted: 29 Mar 2018 07:52 AM PDT Referencing this update. > "The Petition lacks standing to pursue custody of the minor child." Shout out to the Commonwealth of Kentucky for continually being one gigantic dumpster fire of a member of the union. I went into the court room with documented evidence of the Blackrock 529 College Account I started for her, my coverage of health insurance for her, my bank statements detailing expenses paid for her school and life events, pictures of our time together for several years. I made impassioned pleas that I was not just some male figure physically present in the household, but a parent that helped her with school work, cooked and cleaned, did laundry, took vacations and school events with her. Documented evidence didn't suffice. I've received PMs in the past about people asking how to prevent a situation like this from occurring in your household, and the answer is update your legal agreements with all parties and have it notarized and signed by your local family judge. A will does not suffice. [link] [comments]  |
| [OH] My grandma was just scammed out of $4,000 from the car crash scam. Posted: 29 Mar 2018 05:11 AM PDT So somebody told my grandmother I was in a car wreck and there was a gag order on the case so she couldn't tell anybody. They needed 4,000 dollars in Best Buy gift cards to get me out of jail. What can we do to try and catch the person? I told her to call the police as soon as she got off of the phone with me at about 7:50 am this morning. Edit: The check to Best Buy has been cancelled. The codes have not been used. Mom is on the phone with Best Buy to let them know what happened and that they don't want the codes. Edit 2: Thank you everyone for the quick posts and the helpful advice. I wasn't the best OP as far as providing detail goes but I kept everyone that's helping up to date with the information that was provided in this thread as I got it. Edit 3: Best Buy cards were frozen. Check was cancelled. Grandma keeps her money and nobody gets the Best Buy cards. Everything turned out good. [link] [comments]  |
| School cut my wife's pay after returning from maternity leave. Posted: 29 Mar 2018 09:17 AM PDT Location: Texas My wife went on maternity leave for 12 weeks beginning around Thanksgiving of 2017. She was told that she would continue to receive paychecks through maternity leave and the rest of the school year but that sometime in the summer the checks would stop to account for the days missed. That made sense to us. It meant we didn't have to worry about finances while bringing home a newborn and we would have time to save up for when the money stopped. That's not what happened. Paychecks stopped coming as soon as she went on maternity leave and once she returned her pay had been cut. We have not received a clear and satisfactory answer as to why this is. Who should we contact? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 29 Mar 2018 04:44 AM PDT She has a hefty sum in PERS and also has a couple other accounts. I don't know the amounts, but she's in very good shape, especially considering the PERS is top notch (public employees retirement system). Not that the amount really matters, it is more of a question of her running off with all of it. I don't trust her at all. I think she's doing this now before a divorce settlement forces her to hand over half to me. The question is, how do I stop this? Even though half is already legally mine whether we divorce or not, there doesn't seem to be a mechanism in place that would require my consent. I don't really have any money to file for divorce right now, which I believe would put me on better footing to put a halt to her liquidating those retirement accounts. What's my next step then? OREGON [link] [comments]  |
| Neighbors from hell, complete with the hounds. (Oklahoma) Posted: 29 Mar 2018 07:33 AM PDT I'm posting this for my friend's family. I'm fairly familiar with the property and the situation and I asked before posting for them. My friend's family live on a large property in a rural part of the state (Mayes County, if that matters). For some time now, the property next door has been occupied group of people we'll call the Bumpuses. Since then, there's been a lot of screaming next door and my friend's mom has had stuff stolen from her car. The biggest problem right now are their dogs. There are approximately a dozen of them, and they appear to be very underfed. They keep digging holes under the fence, getting in the family's yard, and killing their chickens. So far almost 20 chickens have been killed. My friend's mom put up cameras and has pictures of the dogs killing the chickens. She's contacted the Bumpuses's landlord who has made it exceedingly clear that he doesn't care (I think he's related to at least one of them). She contacted the sheriff's office but was told that the property is outside city limits so they can't do anything. They did try talking to the Bumpuses themselves, but they responded about how you would expect angry, meth-y people to respond. Any suggestions for how to handle this situation? I'm concerned about it getting worse and the family's dogs or the family themselves being attacked by the dogs. [link] [comments]  |
| Coworker accidentally consumed my breast milk Posted: 28 Mar 2018 01:52 PM PDT Location: LA, USA I recently returned to work from maternity leave. As I have an infant at home, I pump breast milk at work. Usually this isn't a problem because I have an office and a fridge in my office to store the milk and pump parts. Last week I had to travel to a different location for some meetings. I pumped in a visitor office and stored my milk in the kitchen fridge. I have a coworker, let's call him Chad. Chad is a young fellow who has apparently not been around any lactating women. Chad apparently also believes that stuff in the fridge is communal property. Now, if you have any familiarity with breastfeeding, you know that breast milk really doesn't look/taste much like regular milk. Chad did not have that familiarity. Chad ran out of creamer for his coffee and poked around the fridge looking for some to use. Chad found my little cooler, found the bottles, and flavored his coffee with my morning expressed milk. In fairness to him, the only label on my breast milk cooler was my name, it didn't specifically say "Breast milk". The cooler is a nondescript black cube that came with my pump. It even has a little custom shaped cold pack to keep the bottles cold. The bottles are labeled with the pump brand (which is highly recognizable to anyone who has had any exposure to lactation) but not labeled with the contents. Around lunch time, I went back to kitchen to grab my stuff for my mid day pumping session. Chad saw me grab my cooler and told me that he had some that morning and it tasted funny. Well, other people were also in the kitchen, put two and two together, and realized that Chad drank my milk. I was annoyed (I worked hard for that milk!) but I shrugged it off. Chad, however, has not. Chad has been the butt of the office jokes for the past week and is now quite butt hurt. Apparently he's been making snide comments about hazardous body fluids in the food fridge. He's been making a fuss and talking about suing/reporting me because I tricked him into consuming my milk. Now, I know that it's most likely it's all bluster and to not worry about unless he actually sues, but, out of curiosity: -Is breast milk considered a "hazardous body fluid"? Are there any legal requirements that it needs to be stored separately from adult human food? -Since he's being kind of a dick, I've been considering asking for compensation. Breast milk costs $4-5 per ounce. Do I have any grounds for demanding 5 bucks? Tl;dr: Idiot stole my kid's lunch. [link] [comments]  |
| I quit. Ex-employer sending emails and signing them from me. Posted: 29 Mar 2018 10:30 AM PDT This seems like it's not okay but maybe I'm crazy. I quit my job because the owner asked me to keep quiet about harassment from another employee. He said it was a waste of time and we had better things to do. I strongly disagreed and quit after being subjected to harassment for the past 3 1/2 months. I resigned, in writing and received a response from the owner asking to return some items. Nbd, I had not meant to keep them. Items were returned. End of relationship. But... the agency is telling other employees and their clients that I am on leave indefinitely due to a family emergency and have set up an email auto response that appears as though I wrote it (I did not). I had a great relationship with our employees and customers and many of them depended on me as their contact person. This doesn't seem legal. Is it? I apologize in advance if this seems stupid or obvious. After working somewhere that was so dysfunctional for so long I don't even know which way is up. I am in Dayton, Ohio, USA. EDIT: add location [link] [comments]  |
| A guy bought my car and wants to sue me. Posted: 29 Mar 2018 06:05 AM PDT I had a 2000 Audi TT up for sale for $4000 because I wanted a bigger car. I listed all the issues it had and updated the milage every other day. A guy, let's call him bob, texted me saying he's interested and has a 2002 Volkswagen gti for sale with less miles than mine and less issues. We texted back and fourth for about a week and decided to trade with if I gave him $600 on top. We each drove about 200 miles and met up in Chicago. We test drove and inspected each other's car and everything seemed fine. We did the paperwork and went on our way. Today, 3 days later, I woke up to a text saying the car won't start and it has a salvage title. The car never failed to start in the year that I owned it, I replaced the battery and alternator so i have no clue what to think. He says it was engine swapped with a vw Passat and is threatening to sue me. Can he actually take any legal action? Should I be worried? TL;DR: sold my car to a guy, he claims it has issues that has never happened to me. Wants to sue me. Can he actually sue me? [link] [comments]  |
| Can I record a cps interview? Nys Posted: 29 Mar 2018 05:09 AM PDT So in nys can I record a cps interview in my home. This is the third report made in 2 months. My home is clean I care for My children I don't abuse them in anyway. The reason I want to know is a cps caseworker came to my house on Tuesday, while my children where still in school I was getting ready to leave for work. I spoke with her for a few minutes told her the kids were at school still and I had to be to work in 20 minutes that we would have to set up a time for them to come back. Well she didn't like that she said she had to see my children and home now. I told her i couldn't stay I had to be to work and I just started this job a week ago and couldn't call in she left. However the next day a different cps caseworker pulled my children out of class to interview them. when my children told me I contacted him and he said the caseworker who came on Tuesday told him I said it was fine to speak to them at school I never said that. So that as me worried because they can say anything they want to happened during the interview and I don't really have any other option as proof of how the interview actually went. Thank you all in advance sorry if left something unclear im kinda freaking out now. [link] [comments]  |
| My girlfriend's company is forcing her to do reposessions. Is that legal? Posted: 29 Mar 2018 08:58 AM PDT She was hired for sales and her title is Sales Associate. Her job is essentially to set people up on payment plans for furniture and other goods, similar to a Rent-A-Center. A few months ago, the company made the salespeople start doing their own collection calls in an attempt to cut costs. Now, they're saying as of April 2nd, sales associates will be in charge of reposessions. As in going to people's homes and forcing them to give up their stuff. As far as I'm aware, repossession is a dangerous line of work. And she doesn't work in a very nice area. My question is, can they legally force her to do something that is that dramatically outside her job description? We are in Illinois, if that matters. [link] [comments]  |
| UPDATE: My friend confided a hit and run incident in me - What is my responsibility now? Posted: 28 Mar 2018 08:29 PM PDT Original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/87ggto/a_friend_confided_a_hit_and_run_incident_in_me/?st=JFBYHTKZ&sh=af79dd13 I told him I had been thinking a lot about what he'd told me and that it might be disruptive to his program if he doesn't make amends and turn himself in for this. He talked to his sponsor about it - who promptly turned him in when it seemed like he was unlikely to do it of his own volition. So I ultimately did not have to step in as the "bad guy" in his eyes and this family will hopefully get some closure very soon. I'm sad for my friend. He made his choices though, now he must contend with the consequences. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 28 Mar 2018 04:12 PM PDT MI here. This motherfucker. He lives down the street from me and he's been obsessed with my dog since day one. He's even offered to buy my dog off of me, which I passed on. A week ago, my dog mysteriously goes missing from my yard after I let him go outside to sniff/pee/whatever dogs do in the yard, and yesterday after I took a day off of work....what do I see but this asshole walking my dog down the block. I went outside and got in his damn face and he got real defensive and said that he got this dog from the "shelter". My dog, meanwhile, recognized me and was struggling to run to me. Things got physical, I shoved him, and one of the other neighbors called the cops. The cop that showed up said there wasn't a way to prove ownership and it was a civil issue. Bull fucking shit it's a civil issue. I told the guy that my dog is microchipped and that we could walk him to the vet right now and get it check and he said it wasn't his job. Pissed isn't a word for how I'm feeling right now. I'm about to walk into his yard and take my dog back by force. If I knock his ass down and take my dog back when I see him coming around the block, how bad is that in the eyes of the law? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 29 Mar 2018 01:11 PM PDT I'm located in Canada, BC. I was told to post here from r/relationships. For those who didn't see my thread:
Hi Reddit. I asked for help about my girlfriend yesterday and received a lot of advice. You guys gave me the courage to do the right thing, which was to break up because of her predatory and manipulative behaviour. It didn't end the way I expected though. I'm sitting in my room, crying and contemplating if my only option is to stay with my girlfriend. Shortly after making that post my GF saw it, and wanted to have a serious discussion about our relationship. She came over to my dorm and we talked. She asked me why I made my post. I said I wanted different opinions on what she did to me. My girlfriend was mad, she told me we were perfect for each other, that people on Reddit couldn't and would never understand our unique relationship, and how I left out crucial details. I broke up with her. I told her we couldn't be together because of what she did to me at the beginning of our relationship, and that my trust was forever shattered. Immediately she started crying and pleaded with me to stay with her, she said that she needed me in her life. She started apologizing for what she did and promised that it stopped after the first month. I almost gave into her begging but I held my ground. Once my girlfriend realized I wasn't changing my decision she started getting aggressive. My girlfriend threatened to ruin my life, destroy my reputation with my friends/family, get me kicked out of university, and fired from work if I didn't stay with her. She had a list typed up with all my insecurities and secrets that I've never told anyone except her. She showed me the video I sent 2 weeks ago of me masturbating (I wasn't underage when I sent it), and implied that she would send all of these things to my boss, professor and everyone else I knew. She asked me to visualize what my life would be like if everyone I knew was disgusted by me, or that my boss and professor knew how I jerked off. I cried when I heard all of this. I didn't know how to respond. My girlfriend came over, gave me a kiss, and said: "If you stay with me I promise none of this will happen to you." At this point I felt powerless against her. It was like I had no control over anything and I was an observer looking into the conversation. I still told her that I didn't want to stay with her. She told me she was pregnant with my child. I didn't believe her and called her out on it. Then she reminded me of the time she wanted me to cum inside her 6 weeks ago. I wasn't wearing a condom, and I thought she was taking the pill, but she revealed to me that she wasn't. This is such a fucked up situation and I just want to stay in my room and forget about everything. My girlfriend is giving me 3 days to come up with an answer and if it's not the one she wants she'll ruin my life. I don't have a single clue how to handle this, what am I supposed to do here? I don't want people to see that video of me jerking off, or know about my deepest secrets. I'm scared to death that she's not lying when she said she was pregnant. I don't want to raise a child and I can't afford to. It was fucking stupid of me to have unprotected sex AND cum inside of her, but I wanted to make her happy so I listened. Do I have to stay with my girlfriend? Will I have to accept the fact that my life is ruined? Could I even recover from this if she goes through with her plan? TL;DR: Broke up with my girlfriend today, she threatened to ruin my life by getting me fired from my job, kicked out of my university, and destroy my reputation with my family/friends if I don't stay with her. She also claimed to be pregnant and I think she's not lying. [link] [comments]  |
| Landlord won't give building key to mail carrier - Washington, DC Posted: 29 Mar 2018 11:32 AM PDT Hey, y'all! My leasing company refuses to give the mail carrier a copy of our building key and, as such, the carrier isn't always able to get into our building to deliver mail. I've been dealing with this for the last year because I assumed the mail just got delivered the next day they were able to get in. But today I had to go to the hub in DC to pick up some packages (because the carrier wasn't able to get in to deliver them) and the guy helping me handed me a huge stack of undelivered mail and said it had taken him 30 minutes to find my items because he had to dig though a bunch of undelivered mail for my building (and a lot of these letters were important ones I'd been trying to track down). I'm extremely frustrated and I know my neighbors are too. Before I complain to my landlord, I just want to know if there's an actual law or policy that requires them to give the USPS a building key. I've tried to look for myself (and am usually pretty good at finding tenant law) but can't find anything. Thanks! (Sorry it's so long.) [link] [comments]  |
| Missouri Psychiatric Hospital Strip Search Laws? Posted: 28 Mar 2018 07:13 PM PDT Hello all, My sister (21) is a sexual assault survivor. She was on Zoloft and had a bad reaction to it and voluntarily checked herself into the hospital because she was having suicidal thoughts. We have a history of suicide in our family (mom's sister committed suicide, our dad committed suicide, both of our older sisters were suicidal until well into their 30's) so she wanted to be safe before she did something. She gets admitted and transferred 2.5 hours away, and when she was admitted they made her do a strip search. She was fine with it, she understood why, but they inserted a finger into her anus and wiggled it. She got upset and they told her to shut up and stop whining. She is, again, a sexual assault survivor (molested as a child, raped as an adult) and it was very triggering for her. First question: Is insertion of a finger legal? That's got to be a violation, right? Second half: They didn't wake her for meals, they referred to her as "bed 2", instead of her name, when she asked for food one nurse told her too bad and to wait until breakfast. They withheld her medicine, and then belittled her when she was crying and wanted to talk to me or her fiancé on the phone so she could feel better about her decision to go. When she finally saw a therapist (over 24 hours later) he asked about my sisters trauma. She was molested as a child by our father and has major PTSD and anxiety about it, and he asked how he died. She said suicide, and he laughed and said "Good. Now he's in hell and you can get over it." She was also in an abusive relationship in the past (within the last 2 years) and he suggested to her that she get in contact with him to show him "How much better off than him she is" and to rub it in his face. Mostly, I am concerned about the finger thing, but I am also concerned about the dehumanizing way they treated her at this hospital. She doesn't necessarily want to go to court, but if she decides she needs to go back she wants to know her rights. Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| I have no people and need an emergency contact. Is this something I could get a lawyer for? Posted: 29 Mar 2018 04:39 AM PDT I'm an adult, by far, 30s. Family is abusive. I don't tell them about my life. I wasn't allowed friends as a child and as an adult, I've never belonged anywhere, so I don't have any trusted people. I'm going to school in a foreign country over the summer and need an emergency contact. Is there such a thing as a service that would just coordinate hospital/death arrangements in the event of an emergency? If they knew, the Ns would just show up and make it about them. I wouldn't want them to know until I had already recovered. If I could find such a service, anyone have any idea about cost? Crossposted to /r/lifeafternarcissism [link] [comments]  |
| [FL] Trespassers/Squatters Burned Down Gutted, Secured Mobile Home Set For Demolition Posted: 28 Mar 2018 04:39 PM PDT This is a sort of follow up to my previous post, but the legal question posed are very different. My mom owned and lived in a very old mobile home on property she also owns. It was in very bad shape and she planned on having it demolished and purchasing a new mobile home to put on the property. The mobile home was essentially gutted. Nothing left but walls, a leaking roof, and floors. No interior doors, kitchen appliances, or toilets. The trailer was secured by locking (with a key) hurricane shutters on every window, padlocks attached to front and back door, multiple battery operated security cameras placed through out the property, and the gate secured with a heavy chain and padlock. My husband and I finishing securing everything and left the property on March 19th at around 3 pm. On Monday, my mother received a certified letter from someone claiming to be her "tenant" demanding that she put the utilities back on and to reinstall the kitchen and bathroom or pay them $10k. If she didn't by March 30, they would sue her for $50k. My mom, husband, and I immediately went to check the property and found the chain and padlock on the front gate changed, all the hurricane shutters removed, a generator running, and three vehicles parked by the mobile home. I got the footage from the one security camera outside the fence (we couldn't go into the property due to the changed padlock) and saw people cutting through the chain we'd secured the gate with on the 19th at around 5 pm. Then people moving in (complete with U-Haul and furniture in the back of a pickup truck) on the 20th. We immediately went to the police, but the officer refused to take a report or let us speak to anyone else. After threatening to be arrested ourselves for threatening not to leave the police station until another cop confirmed that there was no crime, we left at around 7 pm. At 8:30 pm, a neighbor of my mom's property called 911 to report the gutted trailer was on fire. Police arrived first and found a bunch of adults and children attempting to flee the property. Not just the fire, but the entire property. Some of the adults, including the man who wrote my mom the letter were arrested for assaulting the officers. We know some people were hospitalised, but not if it was from injuries from the fire or from fighting with the officers. We think, based on the footage of a U-Haul and furniture in the pickup truck that there was also possessions lost. What type of attorney should my mom hire to protect herself? Would the trespassers/squatters have a legal claim against my mom? Did we do enough to secure the property? My mom is allowed back on the property tomorrow. Would it be illegal for us to retrieve the security camera footage first before handing everything over to the police? The man who sent my mom the letter has multiple arrests for possession of meth. On the horrible off chance he was cooking meth at the time of the fire, are there any special requirements for demolishing the remains of the trailer or any other clean up? I know this is unlikely, but do the police have any liability for not helping us deal with the situation before the fire broke out? [link] [comments]  |
| Postal inspector accused me of receiving marijuana in mail Posted: 29 Mar 2018 10:31 AM PDT So the official postal inspector and a detective came to my apartment looking for me, and when I was not there they left a note in my mailbox to call them. They also tried calling me. I called them back later, assuming it was one of my many amazon packages which was not delivered being held. They said they "know about (my) dark web activity and about illicit packages being delivered to me." I certainly didn't admit anything, but they pressed the topic that they "knew (I) was receiving small amounts of marijuana throught the postal service via the dark web" in any case, without admitting anything I told them I would talk to them on Monday about the situation. I figure this time will allow me to do some reading and hire a lawyer if I need one. The inspector repeatedly insisted that I wouldn't be under arrest, but that they just want to get some information from me. (Mind you they have my phone numbere, name, and address.) So yeah, I would really appreciate some community insight. What kind of lawyer am I looking for exactly? Also I have been told not to ask him what evidence he has against me but shouldn't I do that before I call a lawyer? [link] [comments]  |
| Suspected child abuse and claims of rape (CO) Posted: 29 Mar 2018 07:22 AM PDT Not sure what to do but I am beside myself with feeling the inability to help. My mother married a man after I was an adult. This man has 2 daughters each with their own families. One of the daughters had a fairly "normal" working class household with a son and daughter a few years apart. Family up and decided to move far away from everyone they know and started becoming super religious (from being non religious at all). Family pulls son and daughter out of school to home school them. Family then has 3 more children at a pace of 1 a year, with no prenatal care, health checkups, or schooling. Oldest daughter plays "mom" role to all children while mom runs their "farm" and father runs a plumbing business out of his van. Family stops homeschooling son (if they even were) so teenage son can work plumbing business full time. Family moves two more times (about every 18mo) and finds a new culty church each time. Son gets in serious legal trouble with violence, drugs, and theft and is now a homeless felon. Father hires 18-20 year old temp workers for plumbing business in the summers. All are friends of felon son. Family pulls oldest daughter out of homeschooling to go work plumbing business now that felon son cant. Oldest daughter has a hysterical breakdown because according to her one of the temp workers raped her 2-3 years previously (he was 19 she was probably 13). Family punishes oldest daughter for being insubordinate. Tells her to get over it. Temp worker CONFESSES to family that he did indeed rape her, but he asks them and god for forgiveness. Father tells oldest daughter that temp worker is forgiven, and she should deal with it. Father is still planning on making oldest daughter work with temp worker this summer alone together on plumbing jobs. WHAT WE HAVE DONE SO FAR My mother's husband has called the police several times, they say there is nothing they can do regarding the rape as it was a couple years ago. Family has cut all ties with my mother and her husband. Won't answer calls. Occasionally only talks to the other sister but that has become rare and guarded. No one is allowed to talk to the oldest daughter and she is been effectively locked down for "causing trouble". CPS apparently did an inspection or interview, and is going to come out again at some point ( the ranch is not a safe environment for the babies/toddlers either, they literally crawl around in a never mucked barn). Current preacher at their current church was told all this by the mother, and she claimed "he wouldn't report it because it is confidential" and they would just pray over the temp worker for god to heal him. I have no idea if the preacher reported the rape of a minor. What else can we do? I am not blood related but I am so frustrated and angry that there is a little girl getting hurt in my family and I feel powerless to help. I live in another state. I want so badly to fly there, get my mothers husband (girls grandfather) and just take them away. I highly suspect there might be other abuses going on but I have no proof. The fact they move churches every so often yet get zealously attached to each one makes me think each church got too close to "discovering" their secrets. Is there anything? [link] [comments]  |
| I was employed by the BSA as a camp counselor and they did not pay me nearly $1000 of my salary Posted: 29 Mar 2018 08:39 AM PDT (Texas) A little while back I was working for the Boy Scouts as a camp counselor for a total of 6 weeks, 5 days a week, 8 hours a day, for what should have been a total of about 1800$ (without taxes) around 1550 with taxes. I was an assistant, and was not old enough and did not have the training to be in charge of the area i was in (which involved firearms). The person who was in charge decided the job was too much and quite after a lot of complaints (because he sucked at his job), I was forced to take over. I was not old enough and did not have the training, the job I was now working was paying 8$ an hour, but they did not change my title, or increase my pay because they knew I shouldn't have been able to be holding that job position. Throughout the weeks their pay system was a mess, we didn't get payed for 2 weeks, and after it all ended, I was still only payed around a total of 650, out of around 1500 that I should've gotten, not including the over time we were force to work. Many other staffers for this district in different camps had the same issues, some even getting paid less than minimum wage. The district higher ups are completely ignoring this and refuse to show (and I dont think they even have) our work hours and sign in sheets. Is there anything I can do about this? [link] [comments]  |
| Looking for the best way to disentangle my elderly mother from a timeshare (NC) Posted: 29 Mar 2018 06:01 AM PDT I've recently discovered that my mother has been paying a $900/year maintenance fee for an unused timeshare for years. Googling around, it seems like these deplorable contracts are rock solid. I'm looking for advice on the best way to get rid of it, especially any experiences of people who have managed to dump one. To be honest, it's tough to research and try to wade through the problem because going through it makes me furious at a company taking advantage of my mother. I'm aware high pressure sales tactics towards the elderly aren't illegal but it still stinks. A good jumping off point would be helpful: either selling it somewhere for a dollar or giving it to a reputable charity. Unfortunately, there's not a lot of money to spend up front on something dicey but we'd bite the bullet on a safe and reasonable solution. The company is Summer Bay Orlando/Exploria Resorts and we're in North Carolina. edit: I should clarify that by "sell it" I mean list it somewhere for a dollar. I'm well aware it's worthless, thank you, though for letting me know. [link] [comments]  |
| Tenant/Landlord question: Unable to use garage that is included in my rent (Alaska). Posted: 29 Mar 2018 11:20 AM PDT Hello, The garage door spring broke and the bottom panel of the door has rotted (landlord does not have gutters on the house). The garage cannot be used and my landlord said she can't afford to replace the entire door. For nearly two weeks I have been unable to use my garage. The temps have been pretty cold, I cannot start my car and leave it running to warm up. This ordeal has been a huge inconvenience and little uncomfortable, I am thoroughly frustrated. Since my rent includes the use of a garage, can I tell my landlord that I am going to reduce the amount I pay? Also, how much can I actually reduce it by? Thank you for any advice/information you can provide. [link] [comments]  |
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