- [Update 2] Tenant is renting out my apartment on AirBnB. Tenant isn't responding, AirBnB doesn't care, and my condo board is threatening to fine me for each violation. I have no idea how to even handle this.
- Can you legally steal your own property hours after a police officer hands it to the thief?
- [MO] girlfriend's mom works part time in an Asian market for .15c over minimum wage. Her manager deducted over $40 from her pay check for "drawer shortage", putting her check earned well under minimum wage. Isn't there a federal law in place against this?
- Bank employee used my personal information to flirt with me
- Does the ADA require me to hire someone who has seizures to work at my daycare?
- Ex girlfriend used my account without authorization to pay car loan
- Partner stole work (In CA)
- My home was forcefully searched by police because teenagers were caught on my land smoking pot.
- A nursing home just dumped one of my family members (Florida)
- Blocked off hotel rooms for a wedding, hotel messed up and charged us (the bride and groom) for 20 hotel rooms after telling guests that the rooms were all full.
- My sixty-year old mom was assaulted, hospitalized and lost her job. Police refuse to take the case seriously. (NYC)
- Girlfriend was in a head-on collision last night with a comcast van. People are telling us we should get a lawyer and not to just take what the insurance company first offers us. We're both young and have no clue what we are supposed to do.
- Girlfriends mom had me arrested.
- Police seized my stuff!!! can't get it back
- Manager on Salary puts herself in tip pool on busy days (Arizona)
- Being charged damages of over 2k by American Homes 4 Rent, only lived in house for 1 year.
- [CO] I believe that my daughter's mother lied about her income to increase the child support order.
- I think my mom is going to try to kill my grandmother and make it look like suicide.
- Arrested for Saving a Dog [Indiana]
- Xbox was stolen over a year ago, and the case went cold. Recently, someone has signed on to the account and I've got their address and IP address. How should I proceed?
- Found teenagers living in squalor with schizophrenic dad.
- [US] Want to trademark name of a game we're working on. Seems like a chicken and egg problem. Can someone help clarify a few things around trademark protection?
| Posted: 30 Oct 2018 09:21 PM PDT Location: Toronto Thank you all for the wonderful advice, especially the fact that i am allowed to elect someone by proxy to do a unit inspection. I am never going to rent out my room again because this has been a massive battle. My friend to rent the room for a single night because my land lord never responded about doing a walkthrough in time, and i was nervous. Turns out someone not Jane, but someone who identified himself as Janes coworker who works for Company X, met my friend in the parking lot. He gave him the keys. I don't know who this person is but i am not comfortable with some random person having my apartment keys. My friend ironically was rejected by the concierge service, who asked him what room he was going to. (I forgot to tell my property manager about this). My friend got a full refund from AirBnB and him and his girlfriend were put up in a nice hotel a few blocks away by AirBnB for the night. My property manager did respond and was kind enough to do a video walkthrough with me on speaker phone, and honestly my apartment is not in great shape at all. Apparently it stinks of cigarettes and weed, and there was a beer can being used as an ash tray, which is not allowed since our apartment building is "Smoke Free". I have stains/burns on my couch which looks like from cigarettes. AirBNB has not done anything, and her listing is still up (i can't find any other listings of hers). Jane however has been constantly sending me angry emails, about how i am impacting her financial situation, to how it is making her look bad as an AirBNB host. I told her bluntly the things that i saw from the walkthrough and how it stinks of smoke and we are a smoke free building. She claims she never signed any sort of agreement about condo rules, and i sent her a picture of the agreement she signed, including the condo rules page. I offered to let her out of the lease, and not pay any more rent money for the remainder of the time on the lease. Skipping Novemeber/December. If she left, and had the apartment cleaned. She on the other hand demanded $5,000 for her to vacate from the apartment early. When i refused she told me "I will do everything within my power to make ur life a living hell for fucking with me". My lawyer has made the complaint with the LTB, and he thinks it will most likely be resolved by the end of December. This has taught me a hard lesson, and i will never rent my apartment again. Anyways thanks for the advice. [link] [comments]  |
| Can you legally steal your own property hours after a police officer hands it to the thief? Posted: 31 Oct 2018 09:10 AM PDT Yesterday my phone was stolen at lunch and I chased down the girl who stole it making a scene in the mall. A Plano police officer overheard the commotion and came over. The girl tried to say I was trying to steal her phone. I told the officer that I could unlock the phone and the girl could not, I told him my pictures are on the phone, my bank information was on the phone, and basically my entire life was there to prove it was mine. He refused to give me the chance or believe me. He told me to back off and leave her alone or he would arrest me. I left. The girl was wearing a uniform of one of the shops in the mall so I decided to check back 2 hours later. I saw her set my phone down by the cash register of her work after failing again to break into my phone. When no one was in her store and her back was turned I took my phone back. Before anyone starts going off on me for it, I know. I know exactly what I did was extremely stupid but I am still paying for that phone so...yeah. I am asking for the legalities of it. The phone was set on a counter and not in an area that would be considered employee only, the store was open, and the phone is legally mine. The place is obviously heavily video monitored so there is no doubt that I am on video. My questions are simply did I break any laws? If the phone was on the counter, not behind the register but on the counter, the store was open and I was not asked to leave, and the phone is legally my property did I break the law? EDIT: Thanks for all of the info. I do not wish to pursue a police complaint nor do I wish to report the crime. I am too lazy for that. EDIT2: uhh I'm a dude. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 31 Oct 2018 09:12 AM PDT Missouri. It's my understanding that you can't have any deductions put you under minimum wage. Can we threaten them with any sort of legal action / report if they don't pay her proper check? On top of all this, that scumbag of a manager rubbed it in her face, he literally said to her "does it make you sad?" after telling her they were deducting it from her.....like what the hell dude? [link] [comments]  |
| Bank employee used my personal information to flirt with me Posted: 31 Oct 2018 01:04 AM PDT Today I went to my credit union to apply for a credit card. Everything went as expected, I got a card and I left. However, after work I received the following text message: "Hi <name> (: We don't officially know each other and it's random I know... I just wanted to say you're very handsome! Don't ask how I managed to get your number. It's a secret (;" At first I was very flattered but quickly realized how creepy this was. And thinking more about it I realized that if this person was the representative I talked to today she definitely knew my phone number, address and income. I'm sure she had access to more info than that, but those things I know for sure she saw. My question is simply how do I proceed, should I report this to my bank? Is there legal action I should take? I'm really not sure what to do in this situation. I'd appreciate any advice. Edit: I live in California Edit 2: To clarify I did ask who it was and she responded with "I can't say who I am because that will reveal how I got your number" There are other reasons why I believe it was the woman at the bank. I have no proof it was her, but I don't see it being anyone else. I did search the number online and nothing came up. [link] [comments]  |
| Does the ADA require me to hire someone who has seizures to work at my daycare? Posted: 31 Oct 2018 01:30 AM PDT I am the director at my church's daycare. A young woman applied for an assistant teacher position recently who has a few disabilities. Her right arm is paralyzed and can't be used. She also disclosed that she occasionally has seizures which are brought on by emotional distress. Aside from these things, we really like her, even though she's never held a job before at 20 years old. We wanted to give her a chance, but do not feel that her disabilities would allow her to safely supervise children of any age. While she says that she can feel a seizure coming with 3-5 minutes notice, we'd still never be able to let her work alone, and she said somebody would need to stay with her through the seizure to make sure she doesn't hurt herself, or that it doesn't last longer than 5 minutes, in which case she'd need an ambulance called. That means, at any point, I could unexpectedly be down 2 teachers. We don't always have the staffing to cover that at the drop of a hat. And Lord knows, if emotional distress brings on her seizures, kids will give you loads of that when you're caring for 12+ of them at a time, no matter the age group or number of other teachers in the room. I asked our HR manager how to handle letting her down, because I didn't want to be dishonest about why we weren't hiring her. She's a leader in our church's youth ministry and highly regarded. HR agreed that she was a liability, and said we could be honest. They also said to tell her that if her medications are able to stabilize her seizures and she goes a year without one (she most recently had one 6 weeks ago), we could revisit and possibly give it a try. When I called her back to give the bad news, she was very disappointed. She said to me, "My case worker told me that, because of the Americans with Disabilities Act, you would have to accommodate me." I explained that I understood that law, but that a minimum requirement of this job was the ability to safely supervise children alone, and her description of her condition didn't make us feel like she could do that. She said okay and we hung up. It sounded like she really thought that anywhere she applied would be required to hire her. That can't be true, can it? Am I safe here, or at risk for legal action? We're in Louisiana. [link] [comments]  |
| Ex girlfriend used my account without authorization to pay car loan Posted: 31 Oct 2018 09:46 AM PDT I had been dating a girl for a few years, but we broke up in March. Last year, when things were going well, I foolishly co signed on a car loan with her. We had talked about it a lot and she was comfortable with the monthly payment so that's why I gave it the ok. After we broke up in March she was hard for cash so and needed help just to get out of my life so I agreed to help and pay her loan for one month. I used my bank account on their online portal, and it saved my info. I forgot to delete my bank account off it, and that's where the problem lies. A couple weeks ago, she used my account to make a payment on her loan of a little over $700 (2x her monthly). She never asked me about it, she did not say anything. The only reason I found out is because I was looking at my checking account and saw a debit for the loan company (Ally) of that amount. I immediately called my bank and they told me it was an ACH payment. I know it was her, there's no way around it. She's the only one who can login to the portal so she had to have done it. I called Ally and got my bank info off the online portal so she can't do it again. I messaged her via text and Facebook message asking if she did it. I said it doesn't have to be a big deal, I just want her to do the right thing and pay me back. She has not responded to multiple messages so I'm not sure what my options are. Do I have any legal recourse to get my money back? I don't want her to get away with stealing from me, but I don't know what I can do. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 31 Oct 2018 08:44 AM PDT I've written a TV series with a writing partner and former friend and filmed the pilot for pitching purposes . She an I are now estranged. It's been brought to my attention that she's submitting to festivals, winning awards and filming the other scripts without my knowledge or consent. Our verbal parting agreement was that we would keep each other informed of any activity with our joint project. I have each of the episode scripts date stamped in my computer and the original pilot script is registered with the writers guild of America. What are my rights? What's my legal recourse? What do I do? [link] [comments]  |
| My home was forcefully searched by police because teenagers were caught on my land smoking pot. Posted: 31 Oct 2018 06:57 AM PDT This is Caddo parish Louisiana I live on a ~10 acre lot in the outskirts of the city, with significant wooded areas and an easily jumped fence surrounding it. I cannot see much of the wooded area from my home and do not go out there very often. I'm a young single guy and I inherited this property from a family member, so I don't have the resources or need to utilize the wooded areas. On October 29 the police visited my home with a search warrant. They said the warrant was due to suspicion of marijuana possession and/or distribution. I have not touched marijuana for months before I moved into this home. I attempted to ask the police officers for some context, but they did not answer and entered my home without my consent. They basically ransacked my home looking for narcotics, and tried to argue that the kitchen scale above my microwave was used to measure out drugs. They ended up damaging an antique dresser while searching it, and now some of the drawers are broken. The dresser is quite old and I imagine valuable, and it is a family heirloom. After not finding any drugs and asking my some loaded questions like "How long have you smoked marijuana?" they finally relented. I asked again what the suspicion was and they explained that a group of teenagers were caught on the edge of my property smoking marijuana and were arrested. They claimed they got the marijuana from me and that I told them they could smoke on my property. I did not do this. My question is if I have any legal course of action to ensure this doesn't become even more trouble, and if I can get some kind of compensation for damage done to my property, specifically the heirloom dresser. This dresser is from the 1800s and is quite important to me. [link] [comments]  |
| A nursing home just dumped one of my family members (Florida) Posted: 31 Oct 2018 09:32 AM PDT Yesterday they told us they were sending him to the hospital against our wishes, and a hospital staff member just confirmed to me there was no reason they needed to send him there. Now the nursing home is refusing to take him back. Besides breaking their contract with us, what other legal violations is this nursing home committing? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 31 Oct 2018 11:21 AM PDT First post here, but this has been going on for the last week after we got back from our honeymoon and I don't know how to get rid of this almost $3000 bill. So we were planning our wedding for the past year or so, and we ended up calling a Best Western to block off some rooms for our guests. My wife and mother call and talk to a manager at a Best Western about blocking off rooms, and the manager responds that she can give us 20 queen rooms and 5 king rooms for a discounted rate of ~$110/night. They ask her about the cancellation policy for the rooms and the manager responds that if, 4 weeks out from the wedding, all the rooms aren't taken, the rooms will be released from the block so that they can be rented out by the hotel to other guests. They clarified that there would be no fee for this and that there was no deposit needed for the rooms either to which the manager agreed. The manager blocks off the rooms for us (so we think), and tells us everything is good. She says she will need a credit card on file to put it into the computer but that it won't be charged for anything. The manager then send us an email with the confirmation and the agreement. This agreement, that we admittedly did not read until this happened, has a statement that says 4 weeks prior to the event/booking, if all of the rooms are not taken we will be charged for any unused rooms if we do not cancel them before 4 weeks. So this is already contrary to what we were told by their employee. Come about a month later, we are getting calls/texts/emails from relatives and family saying that the Best Western hotel rooms we blocked off were already full. So after multiple, similar reports of this from other friends and family, we just started telling others to book hotel rooms somewhere else because the ones that we blocked were all taken. We did have other friends and family book, THROUGH THE SAME HOTEL (mind you), for other rooms, outside of the blocked off rooms, for a higher rate. Others were forced to find AirBnB's and other hotels because the Best Western was, apparently, full. Only one of our guests managed to book rooms that were blocked off for us, she got 5 rooms through them. Skip forward to the wedding night, and my wife gets a call in the middle of the wedding, from Best Western, asking when she was going to check in to her room(s)? She was, obviously, confused and a little preoccupied at the time, and told them that the guests were still at the wedding, would be there soon, and that we (the bride and groom) were not actually staying at the hotel because we had a different one for the night. Night ends, everyone goes to their respective dwellings for the night. A couple of days later we leave the country for our honeymoon. When we get back from our honeymoon, my wife looks at her credit card statement and discovers a whopping $3000+ bill for a credit card she hardly uses! We look at the charges and see that we have been charged exactly 20 times for ~$139.99 a piece, for hotel rooms. Wow! What a deal! Seeing as we didn't actually stay at this hotel, we think that this must be a mix up and decide to call the hotel to fix this. We call and ask to talk to a manager and there's no one there, so we wait a day and call back. Before that we disputed the charges through the credit card company so that we didn't have to pay the bill. So we eventually get ahold of a manager and ask if the one we originally spoke to is there, and low and behold, she doesn't work there anymore. We tell her that we were erroneously charged and ask her if we maybe got double charged because the rooms were all taken and paid for by our guests. She then proceeds to tell us that we didn't utilize the 4 week cancellation policy so we were charged for all the unused rooms (which worked out to exactly 20 rooms. hmmmm weird). Now seeing that this is obviously a bigger problem than being accidentally charged, we proceed to tell her our side, that our guests were told that there were no more rooms available, and that the rooms should've been occupied by our wedding guests. She listens to us and then give the very helpful answer of "ok?" and basically tells us that it's not something that she can fix and its our fault for not utilizing the aforementioned cancellation policy. We then proceed to get in to touch with corporate Best Western to have them rectify this issue we are having, and all they do is send an email that says we were told about the cancellation policy so its our fault for not cancelling. Well why would I call to cancel unused rooms if the hotel employees were telling everyone that the rooms were FULL and BOOKED??? So with no help from anyone there we are still fighting with them about this, and I am posting here to see if anyone has any advice on what to do? Here are the issues I see with what we were told vs what happened as well as the ways that their employees must have messed up the bookings in the computer:
This is a really long post, but any help on what I can do to fix this would be greatly appreciated. I do not want to pay a hotel $3K for unused rooms because of a mix up caused by their employees. They should be held accountable for the mess ups caused by their staff, regardless if they still work there or not. Thanks TL;DR: Blocked off rooms through a Best Western, guests were told that the blocked rooms were all taken so they got different accommodations. Turns out that the hotel messed up and charged us for all the rooms we blocked off because of their policy that unused rooms needed to be cancelled per their cancellation policy. We didn't do this because guests were being told that all rooms were taken, by the hotel staff. We (bride and groom) ended up being charged for 20 unused rooms at this hotel because of a hotel mess up and they won't fix it and repay us. Edit: This all occurred in the great state of Texas, USA. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 31 Oct 2018 12:06 AM PDT On October 21st, my mom went to a laundromat in the evening. As she was finishing her laundry, a woman that came upto her, told her she's taking too long with her load of laundry and that she needed that machine. When my mom told her she has another load of laundry but should be done within the next half hour, the woman lost it, began cursing and eventually assaulting her. She still has bruises all over her face, ears, neck and has a fractured eye socket. There was a worker at the laundromat who refused to intervene. When the police were called, they arrived thirty minutes later and essentially told my mother that maybe she shouldn't be doing laundry at a laundromat in that part of the borough. (My mother is white and we live in a poor area, you can analyze what the police meant by that statement yourself.) My mother left a statement with the police and I have been trying to reach the detective in charge of the case, daily, ever since. Every attempt to reach him is either transferred to voicemail or answered by someone else who says the detective will be in the following day. I refuse to let this go, if this woman could assault my sixty-year old mom, in the middle of a busy laundromat, I can only imagine what else she is capable of. What can I do to get the police to take this case seriously? At the very least, I would like for them to identify who she is so we could file a lawsuit against her and maybe at least recoup some of the medical bills my mom has. Edit: Spelling. [link] [comments]  |
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| Girlfriends mom had me arrested. Posted: 31 Oct 2018 12:21 PM PDT Hello r/Legaladvice. Preface: I met a girl In a college class. We flirt for a few weeks, bring each other snacks, talk alot. The usual. Valentine's day rolls around I ask her if she want to skip class and go for a drive. We do, get lost, and have a fantastic evening. We begin dating but only really meet during or after class. Due to her family having a chokehold on her. Theres alot I can't say but they tried to marry her to a 40y/o guy in Mexico when she was 6. And she always seemed like she was justifying everything her family did. Anyway this goes on for several months. My parents go out of town and we decided to spend the night together. At arround 4 am we wake up to her phone ringing. It is her mother and she is screaming so loudly that i can hear it on the other side of the room. She wants her back home now. We comply and i drive her back home. Arriving at her home there is a police car outside and i brace for the worst. I am left in my car for 2 hours while they talk to her and her family. At they end of it they say I'm under arrest for sexual assault against her daughter. At this point I'm pretty confused and the officer says he can't tell me any more as it is an active investigation. They drive me to the sheriffs department and impound my car. I'm handcuffed to a wall in an interrogation room and left there for nearly 6 hours. During this time i am told they are speaking to my girlfriend in private away from her family. At the end of the 6 hours a detective comes in and un handcuffed me from the wall. I tell him everything that happened. He leaves and I am left alone for another few hours. The detective comes back and escorts me to my car gives me my keys and tells me my gf liked me very much and didn't want to get me in trouble. And she has gone back home. They tell me I'm free to go but they may be in contact. At this point I'm more confused than anything. And am kinda upset about being chained to a wall for most of this time. And am feeling multiple conflicting emotions. Was there something wrong done here or am I just crazy? I've been in contact with her a few times since, but she is saying her family forbids her from seeing me. I just feel lost right now. There is alot more to this story, but I'm on mobile rn so I can edit when I get back home. Edit: Detroit MI [link] [comments]  |
| Police seized my stuff!!! can't get it back Posted: 31 Oct 2018 06:59 AM PDT LOCATION VIRGINIA i am a photographer with a studio. back in 6/2011, my residence and studio got raided by a joint task force of the FBI and local police for claims of producing child pornography. long story short, i dated this girl. she is/was in her mid 20's. we broke up, she met a guy, she moved across the US. There were some photos that we took together while dating that we posted on adult sites as part of our thing. Well, when she met him and he found out, she claimed i took them without her permission. which you clearly can see it wasn't the case. but she also claimed that i took them when she was underage. I don't know how she was going to explain the math and how improbable that was, but he believed her. She told me to get the sites to take them down.. well, you know once you get posted in the internet, it can't come down. So she even told me, she is going to go to the site, and claim she was underage. i told her fine, but you can clearly see she wasn't. That wasn't enough, she went to the police, and fbi. so fast forward a few months later, they raided my business and home. they took all my electronics, and camera gear. the detective even told me, we have been watching you, you are a predator, you are going away for a long time... well, nothing happened. i wasn't even arrested. they took my stuff and nothing. it has been 7 years. i called every few years, and they said they are still investigating, and can't return my stuff. so as long as the case is still "open" they can keep it as evidence. how can i get my stuff back?!???!?! [link] [comments]  |
| Manager on Salary puts herself in tip pool on busy days (Arizona) Posted: 31 Oct 2018 10:09 AM PDT I work for an independent restaurant that's also a catering business and mostly in the restaurant portion, my manager who gets paid on salary and mostly works for the catering will on busy weekends add herself to the tip pool and work the service even though she doesn't get paid server wage like everyone else. She'll get up to a $100 and no one can say anything because she's the boss, is this legal? Or is the better question how illegal is this? [link] [comments]  |
| Being charged damages of over 2k by American Homes 4 Rent, only lived in house for 1 year. Posted: 31 Oct 2018 09:32 AM PDT So my husband and I rented an $1850/month 4 bedroom home for a year in a suburb outside Columbus Ohio. We had read all the horrible reviews about this rental company before signing lease but didn't have many options as we were relocating from Pennsylvania and were in a time crunch! So our lease was up in July of this year, we did month to month paying an extra $200 for 2 months until we closed on our first home in August. Upon moving out we were notified via email that they were going to keep our security deposit (we weren't surprised, they are known for doing that) but they are also trying to charge us for over 2k in damages. Damages for example being new air filter (husband literally replaced air filter days before our move) porch light being broken (it was broken upon moving in) all light bulbs being replaced (we replaced all of them upon moving), siding needing power washed (the siding was horribly dirty when we moved in last year, we even have pictures) and the worst of all they are trying to charge us for replacing carpet in the entire house. The carpet was brand new when we moved in last year and we had minimal spills, etc...there was not one stain on carpet bc we would always steamvac if we spilled anything. We are clean people. They literally pulled up the carpet and took pictures of the bottom side to showcase any stains (stains that are clearly not visible on the actual carpet). There are many other outlandish and trivial charges that just added up to the crazy amount. So my question is- what is my legal recourse? What should be our next step in fighting this? [link] [comments]  |
| [CO] I believe that my daughter's mother lied about her income to increase the child support order. Posted: 31 Oct 2018 01:55 AM PDT Greetings. A little history. I'll refer to the mother as M. M became pregant in early 2016 after being together for a short period. In mid-2016, I learned that she'd been cheating on me with several different guys over the past months. I wasn't sure any longer if the baby was mine, and promptly ended things with her. I did, however, want to be a father to my child if it turned out they were mine. When the child was born, I sent an email asking if we could do a paternity test. She suggested we meet up and talk about it first. At the time I was living an hour away. On my way up to meeting her she kept sending messages about her impatience and that she only had so much time and that she might leave. I had to keep asking her to stay so I could have a chance to know whether or not I was a father. She finally relented, and I met up with her. She was with her boyfriend, and no child. She told me I was a piece of shit, she wasn't going to help do a paternity test, and she wouldn't send me any information about the girl (she finally told me she was a girl) or pictures or anything and that I can get fucked, and left within 5 minutes. The gas I'd spent on that 2 hours of driving was a big deal of extra spending for me at the time. I was barely making ends meet paycheck to paycheck, but I was managing. I could not afford a lawyer or any of the legal fees associated with a paternity process, and my parents were unwilling to help out since they didn't believe it was my daughter. I struggled financially for a year and a half, at a call center, then 9 months driving for Uber. Suddenly in early May of this year, after over 1500 trips and an average 4.95 rating without a single accident or serious complaint, I was dropped after a new background check policy determined that my misdemeanor from 2012 (Obstruction of a Peace Officer, AKA I was randomly questioned on a side-walk and decided not to answer any questions) was grounds for termination. I wasn't even notified, just couldn't login until I called support. Numerous call, emails, and appeals were rejected. Thanks, Uber. So I was unemployed for an entire month feeling as if I might just lose everything, then suddenly, luck. I went into a retail chain to print resumes and asked if they were hiring. Suddenly I got my first manager position. The first thought on my mind after escaping near-homelessness was, I need to find out if I'm a father. Then suddenly, just as I was about to start my first week at my new position, as if someone who knew us both decided to let her know I now had money, I got a knock on the door from the police. I was served a warrant to take a paternity test. Thank god, I thought, I will finally find out. The test and the results took about a month to finalize, and I was confirmed to be the father. After this, M began to be a bit more open to communication about what was going on. A child support agency then reached out to me to schedule a meeting to discuss child support and custody. I provided all the necessary paperwork and an order was drafted. Full disclosure: My gross monthly earnings are $3033.33 a month, taking $17.50/hr and 40 hours into account. This is what I didn't understand; her gross was listed as $1198.50. The child support technician disclosed to me that she makes minimum wage and works full time. The minimum wage in Colorado is $10.20. The minimum number of hours to be considered full time is 32, which would make a monthly gross of $1,414.40. If she would be getting 40, which is pretty normal for call centers, here (which is where she told me she worked at), that would be a gross of $1,768.00. This order was also drafted first-thing, that is, before any custody negotiations took place, so the calculation for child support was based off of zero overnights. This order came to $514/month, including retroactive payments of 3 months of support which were split into payments of $103/month, bringing me to $617/month. Following the drafting of child support, we negotiated custody. M initially didn't want me to have any custody whatsoever. I couldn't afford a lawyer or court fees, so my only option was to mediate through the technicians at the child support office. After nearly a month of back and forth, we finally came to an agreement to a number of visitations following by a month of 1 overnight a week, then settling on 2 overnights each week indefinitely. So I now see my daughter two nights a week, which is fantastic and amazing and we grow closer ever time I see her. She just turned 2 on the 25th and I got to celebrate with her. I have plans to trick or treat with her on Halloween with M, who is now much less of a stone cold isolationist. I moved to the city she and M live in so I could be closer to her and save a crap-ton on gas and rent. When the 2 overnights a week started in September, I requested a child support modification with the agency I'd been doing all this through. I provided much of the same paperwork with just one change: I now had her two overnights a week. I provided all the necessary paperwork by September 18. I gave them a call in the middle of October 30th to see what progress had been made on the modification. I was told that since there would not be a 10% change in child support, that the modification could not be processed. Well, that really sucks. I decided to use the state child support calculator to see what it would've been. First I inputted the numbers from our first child support document into the calculator to see if it would get the same number as before. Yup, listed exactly as $514. Then, I added 2 overnights. This calculated as $465/mo. A 10% decrease in child support would come to $462.60...so I missed the mark by $3. $3, people. Then I wondered, if her gross monthly wages accurately reflected a 32-hour minimum-wage job (which would be 1,414.40), my child support would become $445/month. Almost a $100 decrease in child support a month and above the 10% threshold required for a child support modification. I feel as if I'm being cheated an extra $100/month. She lives with her parents and pays zero rent. I rent an apartment. She borrows her dad's car, while I'm paying off one. I'm still just managing to get by, thanks to how large this child support order is for me, and I feel it was dishonestly represented and enforced. She also told me early in October that she got a new job and that she still makes the same amount. I can only be deeply skeptical. I can barely afford the court fees associated with a modification, and the number of forms and process behind them are intensely daunting for me. I have a full-time job and I have my daughter on the two days off I have a week; I have barely any time or money to make a modification while also debating the documentation of M's gross income. I really need your help. Sorry for the long post, and if you've read through it all, I appreciate your patience. Please tell me what I should do or where I can get help. [link] [comments]  |
| I think my mom is going to try to kill my grandmother and make it look like suicide. Posted: 30 Oct 2018 06:40 PM PDT For some background, I live in WA and my mother and grandmother live together in NJ. My grandmother is 82, diabetic, mostly blind, has anxiety and needs help with some daily tasks (shopping, hygiene, etc.), but otherwise is doing fairly well considering. She had surgery about a week and a half ago to have a toe amputated, which is when this whole fiasco started. My mother is mentally ill and refuses to seek treatment for it, and has a long history of abusing other people and/or overlooking abuse of others for her own gain. That is to say that her killing her own mother definitely would be something in the realm of possibilities for her. She also has about 15 years experience in the medical field (EMS), so she knows a thing or two. Since my grandmother's surgery, my mother has been really playing up the fact that my grandmother is depressed. She's always been the alarmist type, so I just brushed it off, but the way she spoke about her was as though she was insisting she thought my grandmother was going to pass soon. At some point during this time, my aunt tried to call my grandmother to see how her recovery was going, but my mom answered (GM was napping), went off of my aunt, and to my understanding lied and said that my grandmother couldn't talk because something had happened during surgery and now she needs a speech therapist. I spoke my my grandmother on Sunday and there is no difference in her speech, so clearly the speech therapist was BS. My grandmother also expressed that she feels great, that her leg gets sore occasionally but they put a salve on it and the soreness goes away, and otherwise she's healing and recovering well, isn't on any pain medication or antibiotics, and her foot looks good. I know that she's my grandmother and doesn't like for me to worry, but all of this does align with my mother's updates, except that my mother keeps insisting upon the depression. Today my mom messaged me again insisting that my grandmother is depressed, she's having a hard time recovering, etc. and telling me that she spoke with a social worker who is helping her take the necessary steps to become her paid caretaker. She also stated that she's seeking POA for my grandmother's medical care and "affairs", that they're putting together a living will, a will, and making funeral arrangements for my grandmother's cremation. She says that my grandmother insists we use the cheapest funeral home we can find (I believe this is true) and that she wants us to use her life insurance to pay the cremation costs, and split the remainder between my mother, myself and one of my brothers (I suspect this is a lie). The problem is, my brother and I are the only beneficiaries on my grandmother's life insurance, which is where the POA comes in. I knew my mom was going to try to weasel her way into the life insurance somehow, and now I know how she's going to do it. Several hours after this conversation it dawned on me - I believe she's planning to save up money for a while and kill my grandmother, making it look like a suicide, and have everything left to her. I plan on talking to my uncle and explaining my suspicions to him, as well as trying to get in touch with the social worker, but I was wondering what other steps I can take to try to prevent this from happening. Can I request that a social worker check in on my grandmother and speak to her privately on a regular basis? Can I demand an autopsy upon her death under suspicion of foul play, even if it goes against my grandmother's final wishes? Is there a way that I can get the police involved to stop the cremation from happening before I'm able to get an autopsy performed? What steps could my uncle take to prevent my mother from gaining POA and putting herself on my grandmother's life insurance? Any and all advice is welcome, as I truly don't know what to do in this situation. Just a note: A caregiver other than my mom is out of the question - there's no way my mother would allow it, and my grandmother would vouch for my mother because my mother is the only person she's comfortable with taking care of her due to her anxiety. [link] [comments]  |
| Arrested for Saving a Dog [Indiana] Posted: 31 Oct 2018 09:57 AM PDT Okay to preface this is not me, I am trying to help a friend. I know what they did is illegal. I know animal services should have been called. My friend's family member was arrested for stealing her neighbor's dog. The neighbors were neglecting their dog so she decided to save it. Now she has been arrested, I'm waiting on an update to see if she did anything illegal to get the dog like breaking and entering, I will update the post when I get that information. I wanted to know if there is anything they can do while they try to get a lawyer. I'm mostly posting here to give the family some peace. That way they know they are doing all they can while they try to figure it out. Edit: Okay some more information. She called the owner and he said she could take the dog. It was chained up in their yard so she got it. However a couple hours later they called the police and accused her of stealing. She's being charged with "conversion." Apparently animal control was contacted "repeatedly." Apparently the owners had been trying to get rid of the dog for ages and the accused woman even offered to pay for it but they wouldn't bite after calling the police on her. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 30 Oct 2018 05:48 PM PDT So over a year ago my xbox was stolen. I wanted to pursue it, but, unfortunately, I forgot the microsoft exchange account email (I know- very dumb). My friend used his email account to create the gamertag, and due to never needing to sign in over the years, it was forgotten. In any case, recently, he received a notice that someone was using his card to purchase microsoft points, like $1000 worth. Because of this, we know the account email and password again. So, we have cancelled all of the debit cards attached to the account, and through the account been able to trace the address and IP address that the xbox was last logged in to. How do I proceed? Red Dead Redemption 2 just came out, I've got a hunger for justice, and I want to get my xbox back. How should I proceed? I live in Georgia and the xbox has been traced to Statesboro, GA. [link] [comments]  |
| Found teenagers living in squalor with schizophrenic dad. Posted: 30 Oct 2018 06:52 PM PDT Throwaway account because I'm paranoid. I live in Connecticut. I just want to know what I can do in terms of calling DCF (CPS), or the police even though this occurred quite a few months ago. Hi all! I'm 18 years old and last March I attended a house party thrown by a girl that was in the grade below me (she was a junior at the time.) Her brother was in my grade and had just been expelled the year before, due to him threatening to stab a teacher and kill her unborn baby. This came as no surprise to the whole school. He constantly talked to himself, had long, dirty hair, and wore the same clothes and shoes to school every day. Many said he was schizophrenic, which I don't doubt, but it is also worrying that someone would let their child go by every day like that. When I first entered the party, I saw that there was hardly any furniture inside the house. Whatever, I knew her Dad struggled financially and her mom was a druggie who ran away when she was a toddler. Being poor isn't against the law, so I just continued on and went upstairs to her room. Once I got to her bedroom, There were many full brand new vodka bottles, beers, nipper bottles, mikes hard's, etc. all on her dresser. She told me her dad bought them for the party and she was so excited because a kid would be bringing more. I thought this was incredibly weird and kinda shrugged it off, and I didn't drink but sat there while some of my friends did and we all talked. The party picked up speed a bit more and lots more showed up. My friend had become incredibly drunk so I went downstairs to get her a glass of water. Her brother (my former classmate) was in the kitchen, waltzing around and I asked him where his cups were. He started opening cabinet after cabinet, which had no food, dishes, glasses, or cups in any of them besides a few knorr pasta side packets and a box of cereal. He then opened the fridge, which had no light, and all that was in there was dirty dishes. I don't even think the fridge was on and functioning. He then walked over to a desk that was in the kitchen, picked up a pencil cup, dumped the contents out and offered it to me. I told him thanks, but no thanks. I went back upstairs halfway up, my friend started to wobble down and then fell after the first 5 steps. I was incredibly confused by how she was acting, because she hadn't drunk that much and she has gotten drunk many times before and is not a lightweight. When she fell, her shirt came up and revealed her bra, which then the father (and owner of the property) shouted "Ohhh, now it's a party! What a show" with a creepy look on his face. Someone took her to her house and put her to sleep and apparently she was acting very out of it. One of the friends stayed with her to make sure she didn't die. Back at the party, I was about to head out to go pick up my friend that I wanted to hang out. The girl who was throwing the party asked me if I could stop at the gas station on the way to pick up just a roll or two or toilet paper, and she would pay me as soon as possible. Apparently, she ran out two days prior and had been using McDonald's napkins. Her dad couldn't get anymore because they ran out of food stamp money and didn't get more until the 30th of that month (I believe it was the 25th on this day). I said sure, and left. When I came back with my friend, there was obscene writing and drawings all over the walls. As I passed, the father had walked up to the wall and said: "Heh, cool." A fight broke out between the boy in my grade and the father because the father tried to pull his son's pants off. I continued on and went back up to her bedroom, where the majority of the people were hanging out to get away from her creepy dad. He kept trying to come in, saying he brought weed up and we should all smoke with him. Finally, the daughter let him in and he looked at all of us girls sitting on her bed and said to a boy standing by us: "Hey, do you think I have a chance with any of these girls?" and the kid said "No, dude they're all way younger than you that's illegal" he just scoffed and kept walking around the house like a crackhead. My friend and I left, as did many of the girls because they were afraid to sleep in that house. About a week later, one of my classmates told me that after that party, (the only time she had ever drank) she felt weird, not hungover, but weird. She took a drug test out of curiosity and found she came positive for 2 different drugs. Now, I don't remember what. But all she knows is she drank the alcohol provided by the dad. I also found out from my ex-boyfriend who had attended one of the parties before this, that he tried to take his shirt off when he was drunk and sitting on the toilet when the dad barged into the bathroom on him. I told a few of my friends that in my whole 17 years of life I had never felt so uncomfortable, and I felt that something had to be reported. All of my friends talked me down, saying she was fine and I would be ruining her life if she had to move to a foster home. I don't feel I can let this go without doing something, as I've had a bad conscience whenever I've thought about it ever since then. Is there anything I can do now, report it to anyone, and will it even be of any merit? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 31 Oct 2018 08:01 AM PDT Location: US We're working on developing a game that's still a ways out from release, but would like to trademark the name. The name is the same as the main characters in the game, and is very important to us to have the rights to. From reading about trademark application, and when they actually take affect - it seems that even if we pre-register for a trademark, it doesn't actually take affect until the game is in market and actively being sold. Doesn't this create a chicken-and-egg sort of problem? For example, how can we advertise our game, and at the same time protect it from some unscrupulous individual or group swooping in at the 11th hour, pushing shovelware out to Steam using the name we've chosen, and then claiming they own the rights to the title since they were "first to market" with it? I'm hoping I'm misunderstanding a key detail in trademark protection, but as it stands right now, it seems like once the game is far enough to start advertising, its title is also at risk for being stolen. To give a more concrete example of my concern: Let's say Small Studio Games is working on a game called Foobar. A few months out from release, they've pre-registered the trademark with the USPTO and have started advertising. But since they are not yet "in market", they technically don't own the trademark. A week before release, Scummy Fellow Games releases they're own game called Foobar, that they "built" in an afternoon. They bought a pre-fabricated game from an online site, asset flipped it, and released it under the title Foobar on Steam with a price of $1.00. A few curious, and probably soon to be disappointed, individuals buy Scummy's Foobar game. Now they are considered "in market". Is Small Studio's only recourse at this point to rename to a less-fitting title? Thanks for your time. [link] [comments]  |
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