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| I believe my babysitters boyfriend touched my 2 year old son inappropriately. Posted: 29 Nov 2018 10:13 PM PST I believe my babysitters boyfriend touched my 2 year old son inappropriately. This is a throwaway account, due to certain circumstances I worry for my safety of myself, family, & friends so thus the throwaway. I am currently residing in Wisconsin. I believe my babysitters boyfriend touched my 2 year old son inappropriately. Information: My very first inkling something was up, is the day I believe this happened he came running crying into my arms when I picked him up, previously he was excited to be dropped off and picked up because he loved being there. And they had both previously baby sat my child and other children for a year, and there were absolutely no issues at all. After this had happened, my 2 year olds entire demeanor has changed negatively, he has become angry and aggressive toward everyone in the house, including the family animals. That night I had picked him up, I changed his diaper before bed and his body had become stiff as a board. This is extremely unusual as my 2 year old usually is a playful child and tries to squiggle away from me or "washes his hands" with the baby wipes. This time he was not himself. He was scared, eyes wide as a deer in the headlights. As I took off his diaper he covered his eyes and began weeping softly, then moving his hands to cover hisgenitals and shouts, "No! No no [Friends boyfriends name]!" And began crying hysterically. My heart sank. As a mother, my gut feeling is screaming that something happened to my baby. I know something was done to my baby. I looked my friends boyfriend's criminal records online and he has many petty things starting from 1999 but most notably he was charged with 3rd degree rape of a minor under 12. This man is dangerous, and I didn't even know this. My Concerns And What Can I do?: Notably in Wisconsin, cases involving you children, how often does CPS investigate the person reporting? Both myself and the party involve? Will the investigators / CPS take this matter seriously when regarding my child's age? How do I go about reporting this and keep me and my family safe? What kind of things will they (either CPS or law enforcement etc) look into? If reported, and nothing happens, what things can I do to protect my child(ren) And my family? For a two year old child who has been sexually molested, what are some other signs I can keep my eyes open for? Any advice, any help at all will greatly help. I'm absolutely devastated and need help as I'm at a loss. Edit: I need to mention that this man has gang ties that originate from a very large city near us, hence why I'm scared for myself and my family. Edit 2: I am currently on my way to my appointment with CPS and Law Enforcement that specializes in sexual abuse cases I will update later, thank you all so much for your kind words of support and advice, I honestly appreciate it and will update on the outcome. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 30 Nov 2018 08:59 AM PST Oh boy, here we go. A bit of backround: 2007: BF and I have child. BF refuses to sign birth certificate because he doesn't want to be held financially responsible for her. 16 year old me is 16 and dumb and to happy about our little family to notice the wrongness there. For the next 5 years bf goes off the hinges and is severely mentally, physically, and sexually abusive. It gets to the point where our daughter is old enough to realize whats happening and begins to defend me. It got to the point where our little 4 year jumped in front of me like a shield and starts screaming and kicking out at him. I realized we needed to get out of there. I talk to a few lawyers and they all advise that I can leave without any custody issues. Cut to the day I'm leaving: I've got two options, I can go to an abuse shelter that is 1 mile away from bf parents house or I can get on a flight to my mom. I chose mom. I called up to my local Police department and the conversation goes as follows. ME: My name is Mykeeetsaa, I reside at (location) my child's name is Mykeeetsaa 2.0 and your about to get call from my BF stating that I kidnapped her. I inform the officer that BF and I are not married, he is not on the Birth Certificate, and there has never been any custody orders in place. I inform P.O that I will be leaving to my mother in SC and that in aprox. 2 hours when BF wakes up, he will call saying that his child was kidnapped. I informed PO that I would be at LAX for the next 9 hours waiting for my plane and I ask PO if I would be stopped and arrested, and if what I'm doing is in fact "kidnapping" PO informs me that no, I am not kidnapping and that they will not pursue any charges against me for leaving the state with her, and that I am free to go. Once I arrive safely to my mom's house in SC I have her call BF to inform him that we arrived and are safe and that he can talk to his daughter whenever he wants. I send him a certified letter with return receipt as advised by an attorney, letting him know where I am and why I felt it was necessary to leave. I then immediately try to establish custody and am told that since I am the only parent listed on the Birth Certificate I already have "Sole Custody" and therefor cannot bring an action to establish custody, unless I wanted child support, which I did not. BF and I continue to talk for over a year, he is rarely concerned with our child and just wants me to come back. Things go sour, like calling me 24 times day while I'm at work or school, threatening to harm my family if I don't return, and so on and so on. We break off direct contact, however he still can call my mom if he wanted to talk to our daughter. Cut to the charges: During that year unbeknownst to me he has also been working custody proceeding's in CA. Here's the kicker though, he never informs me of any of it, not by phone or mail or anything. He then convinces the Family Court judge that he doesn't know where I'm at and is unable to locate me, ALTHOUGH on the very first page of the custody documents he writes in my current address. Somehow the judge never noticed this and allowed him to post a notice of hearing in the CA court house, which since I now live in a Different State is completely wrong and improper. Since I never knew about any of this, I never showed for any hearings and BF got full custody of our child. He then files a complaint with the D. A. saying he hasn't spoken to his child in over 4 years and has no idea where I have taken her, and he cant locate us... blah blah blah. Police arrive at my home at 4 am and arrest me, I'm held for 12 days without an attorney or anything awaiting extradition back to CA. Meanwhile he then tries to fly out while I'm locked up and take custody of our child. My mom thankfully gets involved to stop officers from handing her over to this horrible man who absolutely does not care for her and has not visited her once. CPS gets involved and they take her instead. I finally get to CA and am handed a restraining order against my own child. I can't even speak to her over the phone. I eventually get a hearing in front of the Judge that issued custody and present evidence (certified mail receipt, phone logs, ect.) to him. He is furious and rescinds the order. (Daughter is still in custody of CPS though back in SC. So at this point neither of us parents have custody) D.A. however does not care at all, and still want's to pursue criminal charges. For the next year I have to fly, drive, and bus myself to my Criminal hearing in CA and then back to SC for CPS hearings. Our daughter is put through intensive therapy and is berated with questioning as to what happened and as to whether I "coached " her all these years. At preliminaries the Judge finally agreed to 995 dismissal. I got full custody of my daughter back, but the D.A. appealed the dismissal, and basically flat out lied and hid evidence at the Court of Appeals Oral Argument. What is typically a 30 minute hearing went on for an hour, where a bunch of men got together to deliberate, "Whether or not I was abused enough to warrant a good faith claim for my leaving." I. Kid. You. Not. Cut to right now: They still have 60 days to issue their decision, but based on the audio of the hearing I feel like I already know what it is. This horrible nightmare is going back to trial and I feel like a sitting duck right now, and no one is telling me anything, as to what I should be doing to get prepared for this. You hear so many stories of woman in abusive relationships, and the question always asked "Why didn't she leave sooner?" Well folks this is why. They literally asked whether or not I was abused enough. After I left I did everything right. I never once looked at myself as a victim. I looked at myself as a mother. I imminently got a decent job, got my own car, apartment, got my G.E.D., enrolled myself into college. My daughter had the best care that I could possibly give her. And they took her away with out any reason, and I'm terrified that they will do it again. Since all of this between bail, hiring an attorney, and getting back and fourth from SC to CA I'm in 20k debt, I longer have the means to afford my own place so my daughter and I share 1 room in my mom's apartment, and College is on an indefinite hold. My daughter who was the happiest, most caring person ever, now no longer trusts anybody and hates the world. She is prone to anxiety and over thinks and questions every single little thing that happens in her little world. The only thing I have going for me is a decent job which I will most definitely lose if I have to go back to jail/trial. What can I do to make sure that I don't lose my child, and stop all of this madness? Tl;DR: Boyfriend lied; got custody without my knowledge; lied some more; had me arrested; child taken away; life in ruins; BF doesn't even care about child. [link] [comments]  |
| Shipping company left my friends computer in the rain and forged his signature on delivery Posted: 30 Nov 2018 01:10 AM PST So my friend recently ordered a pc from ibuypower on their Black Friday sale. The pc he ordered was about 800$ and obviously requires signature upon delivery because it's such an expensive item. He had ordered the pc to his new house that he was moving into but currently not living at. (obviously a mistake on his part because he wouldn't be there to sign for it) He realized his mistake and called ibuypower to change the shipping address, he looked at the website after the call and the shipping address had changed on his request. Couple days go by and the tracking number says it is out for delivery set to be delivered by end of day. He keeps checking back all day to see if it's been delivered yet and finally at 9 o'clock at night it said it had been delivered and signed for and he immediately though well that's pretty odd because I don't have my pc and never signed for it. He then decides ok so maybe they delivered it to my new house even though I changed the shipping address. He gets there and sees his pc sitting in the rain with his signature forged by the delivery driver the driver even spelled his name wrong. What can he do about this? Also forgot to mention the delivery service was called ontrac. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 30 Nov 2018 09:00 AM PST I found a fossilized tooth of a Pleistocene era Camel while wading through a shallow river on my property. I had it identified through a friend who practices geology and it was confirmed to be an actual fossil. Am I legally able to keep it or do I turn it in somewhere? Edit: The picture album of the fossil. https://imgur.com/gallery/8IiRkef [link] [comments]  |
| Minor gets kicked out of parents house Posted: 30 Nov 2018 04:46 AM PST Location - Illinois, USA Hi, I have a friend who is currently 16, and his family and him got in a horrible fight last night. He lives with his mother and step father, and both of them are extremely verbally manipulative and abusive. Anyways, he was with his friend, and his friends tire popped. Because his friend didn't know how to change her tire, he stayed and helped, when his mother told him to come back home because "he's not really helping his friend." Anyways, he stayed and his mother pulled up to where he said he was, just to see if he was lying, and stayed until they finished putting the new tire on. Once he got home with his mother, she started screaming at him, to the point where it escalated as far as she was going to call the police on him for not coming home when she asked. She ended up telling him to leave the house, because she cannot handle him right now (it was about 9 at night.) She proceeded to take his car keys and car insurance, so he couldn't drive anywhere. My friend left the house and walked for a little, until his friend picked him up and he stayed the night there. So my question is, 1. Is it illegal that she kicked him out, when he is a minor? 2. If the police were called, does anyone know of a standard procedure for things like this? My friend has evidence to back up that his mother is manipulative and verbally abusive, and has videos of situations it has happened before. If this is unclear/need more info let me know :) [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 30 Nov 2018 06:07 AM PST I hope my title makes sense, this is a bit bizarre so I will try to explain. I am a civilian 9-1-1 dispatch supervisor for a police/fire department. Our Communications Center is in the police department. Recently, one of our officers was involved in a use of force where he tackled a female and she had several bruises and injuries and is alleging police brutality. Several nights ago, late at night, I received a message from a commander saying "Set all your social media to private. Some anti-police people have pulled your photo and are claiming you are Officer "X". I logged in to my Instagram and had hundreds of messages. My photo had been screenshotted and reposted on tons of anti-police Instagram pages. The alleged victim in this incident is insisting that I am the officer in question and has my photo up on her public Instagram page. (I am not a police officer, it most certainly was not me). My department has reached out to her and asked her to take posts down. She is adamant that I am the officer in question and refuses to remove my photo. A prominent "anti-police" page now has my picture posted, and people are leaving comments saying things like "If you see this guy, take him out" , etc. and other similar things. The officer in question and I do not look very much alike, but we are both the same race and are males in our 30's. As a result of this, I took down all my social media pages but the damage is done. Somehow, people have gotten ahold of my personal email and cell phone number. Just yesterday I was at a doctors appointment (about 60 miles from where I work). As I walked out, someone walked up to me, said: "I know you, you are Officer X. F*ck you" . I have received texts and calls from friends saying they've seen my photo all over and want to know what is going on. My department hasn't reached out to me to let me know what is going on. I told my boss what's happened and she says they are working on it. I am obviously concerned for my own safety and have already received hundreds of messages and now my photo is floating out there. I know its' not my department's fault this is going on, but I am frustrated and am not being told what is happening and what is being done. They put out a post on the department's instagram (not on any other of their social media pages) saying the photos floating around are not the officer in question and to please stop posting them out of respect for my privacy. I contacted Instagram and Facebook, but they were not helpful and all I could do was "flag" the posts for removal. Now there are so many of them it's not possible for me to track them all. People have said I should consider "suing" this girl for libel to have my photo removed from her page. I have no idea what to do but I don't even want to go out in public anymore. What steps can I take to protect myself and what do you suggest I do? Thank you in advance for your help. (I am in California, I forgot to mention this) [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 30 Nov 2018 10:13 AM PST So, my 28 year old autistic son is in jail right now and I need some help. So he likes to hang out at a local video game shop and make friends there. One of these friends, well call her K, he had a relationship with that me and his father didn't know about. I have texts between the 2 of them and she told him she was 19. Well, she apparently (on multiple occasions) brought him to her house and had sex with him. So this is where the problem comes in, K is 15. K's parents found out about him and went to the police and now my son is in jail. I talked with the police and they say he most likely will be charged with statutory rape. Along with this, K claims he recorded them having sex and sent it to people over a internet chatting service. The police confiscated our computers and said that if they find evidence of that they will charge him with child porn possession and distribution too. I really don't know what to do here. I'm getting funds together to bail him out and looking into lawyers and I wan't to know what can I do. My son is autistic and is unable to work or live on his own and most likely will never understand what he did was wrong. Do we have any chance to fight this? I have texts between the two of them showing that K lied and manipulated him. Because he is autistic does this count as her taking advantage of him? thanks. [link] [comments]  |
| My friend's stepmom tricked her and her siblings into signing over their dad's entire estate. Posted: 30 Nov 2018 08:52 AM PST So their dad passed away about a year ago and left around 300k between my friend and her 2 siblings. She had them sign paperwork shortly after his death when they were all heavily grieving. My friend doesn't even remember signing the paperwork and the other siblings said the stepmom said it was just paperwork about the house, not his entire estate. The paperwork was 36 pages long and they only ever saw the page she had them sign. They just now found out because their actual mom looked into everything. Is there anything they can do? This is in NC. [link] [comments]  |
| My AirBnB guest is shooting pornography in our rented room Posted: 29 Nov 2018 10:14 PM PST Our kids have all grown up and moved away, so we rent out their old bedrooms a few times a year on AirBnB when there is a large conference or other tourist draw near our home. We've never had notable problems and even have some reoccurring renters. Most usually get to know us, but one man would come rent our place (not correlating to any conference) and be uninterested in making chat. He was always perfectly pleasant and would rent for between one week to nine days at a time. He has rented from us one-three times a year for the last five years. Recently our son contacted us to inform us a room of our home appeared in several videos on a porn website. We do not want porn videos shot in our home. We could not figure out who was posting these videos and decided to stop renting to anyone we didn't know, but continued renting our regulars. This man is here and a new video has just appeared, giving us reason to believe he is filming the videos while we are at work during the day. He is scheduled to stay for another six days and we are not comfortable with his staying any longer filming pornography. They are quite graphic and involve bringing at least one, as many as three, strangers into our home. We have read the website and cannot figure out a way to lawfully evict him or anything that explicitly forbids him from making pornographic films in our home. I am physically ill at the idea of my children's bedrooms appearing in a pornography. Is there anything I can do to get him out, or do we have to just take alternate days off work to supervise the house until he leaves and we never rent the rooms again? Thanks. [Alaska] Update: unfortunately our area had a shocking earthquake today. We informed him the area was under a tsunami alert and that we were considering evacuating and strongly encouraged he do the same. He packed and was gone within ten minutes. We're never renting the room again. This problem is solved. Thank you for the advice. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 30 Nov 2018 06:26 AM PST My ex wife and I divorced. I am remarried to a wonderful woman. We have one child who is 3 months old. My son from the previous marriage is 8. I asked for a divorce because my ex wife had beat me for many years, and I couldn't take it anymore. I do have a photo of one incident where she tore holes in my arms with her fingernails when I tried to leave. I have a lawyer, who unfortunately has been dragging his feet and caused this to drag on for over a year, with nothing being done about my ex wife's behavior or actions. The divorce agreement stipulates many things, including: a) there shall be no overnight visitors of the opposite sex unless they're related by blood or marriage b) husband shall have a visit with the minor child the third weekend of every month, wife is to be notified 7 days in advance c) husband shall have a phone call or virtual call each night with the minor child with no interference I have proof she has had at least two men, one of them a convicted felon, living in the home with them, and my child telling me he hates them because they fought in front of him all the time. I have proof she ignored my visitation notification and disappeared with my child, denying my visitation after I drove over 12 hours and spent hundreds of dollars making the trip. She then sent me a text message demanding money, and if I didn't send it to her "don't count on us being here. I'd hate for you to make another trip for nothing." During that next visitation pick up, she refused to hand over the iPad I own and pay for when I respectfully asked for it, then denied me the right to pick up my son. I instructed my wife to begin recording video if my ex wife began acting erratic, and she did. My ex wife and her mother then came at my wife, who was 6 months pregnant, and got in the window of our car and began yelling obscenities at her. My ex wife's mother had to physically restrain her. I put my arm between them and my wife, never touching anyone, and politely asked them to please take a step back from my wife. My ex wife then pushed me across the hood of our car and was yelling about it was illegal to film them on their property. I said nothing, got in our car, and backed it out on a public road and parked it. My ex wife then called the sheriff's department on me, who arrived in less than two minutes. With my divorce agreement in hand, I politely informed them I was simply there to pick up my son for my visit, at which point they took my agreement and read it and said I had no right to pick him up, even though the agreement clearly states I am to pick him up at 1pm and drop him off at 5pm at my ex wife's residence. They told me they could not interpret an order, yet did so and for over an hour allowed my ex wife to be in the home alone with my son, terrorizing him and denying my visitation. I did not press charges for the attack on me and the threatening behavior against my wife because I did not want my son watching his mother being arrested. I do my very best to be amenable and not escalate things in front of him, out of respect that she is his mother and he doesn't need to see that. It was a regrettable decision, in hindsight. I just didn't want my son to see things like that. She's his mother. I have missed over 300 daily calls with my son since the divorce, all documented with screenshots, and my ex wife began sticking her phone in his face when I call, intimidating him. He rejects my calls when she does this, but waits until she leaves and calls me, or hides in another room away from her and calls me. These calls have been our most enjoyable and productive. There have been several instances where she has taken the call away from him, screamed at me, cussed at me, threatened to take our gaming time and movie trips away, said she has gained knowledge of my HIPPA information without my consent, and said she wishes I wasn't his father, all in front of my child. Fortunately I have much of this recorded. She has now made false claims about me and contact with my son in a court document. A guardian ad litem was assigned to investigate, who then ignored the evidence I presented to them and wrote an extremely biased report that paints me in a terrible light going strictly off statements by my ex wife and her mother, while ignoring and not mentioning any of the evidence I showed them, including an audio recording of my son telling me the children of one man his mother had in the house were physically abusing him and when he told his mother she did nothing about it. The GAL has even gone as far as saying my ex wife's violations of having men staying in the home against the agreement were "innocent". I had one sit down with the GAL, told her I had far too much evidence for an hour and a half meeting to go over, and requested additional interviews to present it. She ignored my requests and did not meet with me again. My ex wife had unfettered access to her for nearly 3 months, gave her false statements which she included in the report, and has since cut my phone calls with my son down to one call a week for 15 minutes. I also have evidence my ex wife has coached my son to answer questions with her words. As I said earlier, I have a lawyer who I've been reporting all this to for over a year, but has yet to get this case in front of the judge so I can present my evidence in full. My ex wife has threatened to have me arrested if I don't do what she says and pay her money I question the validity of. She's violated the agreement multiple times in a large variety of ways yet has faced zero consequences for it. To this day she still restricts my communication with my son and has now gotten him to say he doesn't want my wife or his baby brother around him. I'm so worn down at this point. It seems like every corner I turn, it just keeps getting worse and nothing is being done about it. I've only had one court date, which ended up leaving me in the lobby for over an hour while a back room deal was attempted with the judge and my ex wife refused. Now I've missed my opportunity to have any meaningful time with my son for the holidays for a second year in a row, and the situation just keeps getting worse. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. There's so much more to this case I just don't have the time to write here. I'm just trying to play by the rules and be a father to my son. I'm desperate because she has devastated my relationship with my son that will take years to repair now, but I'm not given the opportunity to. Thanks to any who reply. I just don't know what to do at this point. [link] [comments]  |
| 2YO daughter found to have high lead level in blood. Posted: 30 Nov 2018 03:41 AM PST
Update on what I am doing - Chilling out till I get off of work. Then I can go through the contract.No sense going on with speculation. I really appreciate everyone's help. Edit: Grammar and spacing [link] [comments]  |
| I was raped about 6 months ago and I want to take legal action now Posted: 30 Nov 2018 09:41 AM PST I was too scared to do anything about it when it happened else than seek medical care. I have x-rays, bloodwork, a medical report and two MRIs. He damaged my spine so it is twisted and shifted to the right which is obvious on my x-rays and noted by the technician. My hamstring was torn and is documented with an MRI. I just got an MRI on my back because I am in so much pain I can't sit up. My back muscles are also damaged and strained. My jaw and neck has some minor muscular damage. This has caused serious mental issues and I am seeing a therapist multiple times a week. I'm constantly terrified and scared to go to school because I think he's going to hurt me again. He also has photos of underage girls without their consent. He would take pictures up their dress when they weren't looking, when this was taken to the principal nothing happened. So what can I do? I told all the doctors that I just didn't know how all my injuries happened but I don't want him to hurt anyone else or get into a good school or get any scholarships. I have messages of him admitting to raping me as well. Do I have enough evidence to do anything? Did I wait too long? Edit: I'm also scared as to what my family will do to me if they find out Some more context... I have had sex with him once before but I didn't want it this time. I said "no", I tried to fight him, I cried. He ended up forcing my mouth open and choking me, pushing my leg up behind my head which tore my hamstring and my damage to my back is from the whole thing happening [link] [comments]  |
| [Virginia] Does my medical ID bracelet fall under reasonable accommodation? Posted: 30 Nov 2018 10:17 AM PST I work with food and wear nitrile gloves; my place of employment has a no-jewelry policy which includes bracelets. I wear a medical bracelet on one wrist that is easily covered and secured snugly under the glove, so it is never exposed to food. I take care to wash it and under it when I wash my hands/wrists throughout the day nonetheless. I had it approved by my manager, but his manager noticed it, and is now claiming this is a sanitation hazard and policy issue despite it never for a moment being exposed to food. They want me to wear a medical ID necklace and hide it instead. (Necklaces are still jewelry but don't fall under the "policy issue"?) I do not trust myself to take my ID on/off because of poor memory so I must keep it on at all times, but a clunky necklace is so much more in the way than a stationary bracelet. It is also urgent medics see my ID immediately because they cannot administer medicine, and if it's tucked under clothes I'm concerned about the speed they'd discover it. I understand it's a small issue but switching to a necklace would be an annoyance IMO and potentially a greater hazard. Is it my legal right to have a medical ID bracelet under reasonable accommodation, or must I cave and wear a necklace? [link] [comments]  |
| My employer is discriminating a against me for being Jewish (Mississippi USA) Posted: 29 Nov 2018 10:24 PM PST I'm Jewish and half Middle Eastern (other half is Italian). I work at a unionized grocery and gas chain store In Mississippi. When I first started I just let people think I was just Italian and didn't bring up religion. All was fine and nothing different than what the other employees deal with until last year. Last december I was talking to a coworker and unthinkingly mentioned being excited for a Hannukah get together I was going to that night. This co-worker then repeatedly started trying to convert me. It became so uncomfortable that I had to go to management. Since that day this job has been absolute hell on Earth. I have been working with the union on each of these issues but I've not brought up the fact that I firmly believe it to be discrimination and I want to have a legal route planned in case they're going to be anti-Semitic too There's some examples of things that have gone on.
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| Posted: 30 Nov 2018 06:57 AM PST this is in regards to my mothers moving experience from NJ to MA. I apologize for limited details, but I am getting this all second hand. She arranged with a company to be moved on Wednesday 11/28. They agreed on price and times, etc. She signed a contract. Come Wednesday the movers never show, so she calls the office and they explain that she never verified the move the day before when they tried to call her. She never received any call and expects that they tried to call her work phone, which she used to originally make the arrangements, despite her telling them repeatedly that she will be leaving that job and to call her cellphone. They suggest they can do the move Wednesday Night. But my mom says no, because her house is on a steep slope and there's hardly any light outside and its a 5 hour drive to Boston and it is totally impractical to do the move that night. So she arranges for the movers to come Thursday the 29th. The company charges her an extra $500 because this is now an expedited one day move. She's pissed but agrees. The movers arrive Thursday morning, and have another contract for her to sign for more money because now its some specialized truck or something (she doesn't really get the details on this one let alone me hearing it from her). At this point the cost of the move has just about doubled, but my mom is already a day late on her move, and the movers are there now, so she signs the contract because she has to start a new job on Monday. She drives up the MA, and the movers never arrive. My mother ended up sleeping on the floor last night (which isn't relevant to this conversation, but I'm pissed about it). She'll be contacting the movers today trying to get her stuff back. Were also wondering if its worthwhile to try to find a lawyer as several things aren't ringing true to us. Particularly, is a company allowed to ask for secondary contracts on the day of an agreed upon service? How does my mother ask for a refund for her expedited one day moving, considering her stuff never arrived? Is it worth getting a lawyer involved to review contracts and be present for the rest of these proceedings? Did this company just steal my moms stuff? How do I get my legos back? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 29 Nov 2018 11:54 PM PST Basically as the title says, we were picking up a few friends who were enjoying themselves at a local bar. The officer pulled us over and didn't cite a reason to do so. Asked for a breathalyzer and he said "we don't do those here." Did a field sobriety test with no issues. Officer returns to the vehicle with a warning about an improper lane movement (had a turn signal on as I was departing the lane). He fails to say anything about the reason for stopping us, only cites that if anyone lives in the area for more than 3 days, even as a student, and doesn't rent directly from the university they are required to apply for a residency in the state (SC) and have a state drivers' license. "This ticket would be $445 and we give a lot of these out as people don't know this rule." I would love to be a resident of the state as I'd save a TON on tuition but I don't think that's how it works... I don't want it to become an issue in the future, is this correct? Or was the officer trying to scare us because he didn't get the DUI bust he was looking for. If so, everything I've looked at says you need at least 12 months continuous status in a house or a full time job to apply for residency. I would think this is something that the University should communicate to out of state students when applying. [link] [comments]  |
| Sons deadbeat dad threatened to call police Posted: 30 Nov 2018 08:27 AM PST TL;DR - My four month old son's deadbeat father (has never been involved) told me out of nowhere that he is taking our son on Monday or he is calling the police on me. He knows nothing about our son, and has never had him alone before, and I'm concerned for my son's well being. I don't know what to do. Is he even able to do this? We don't have any legal custody or visitation agreements set in place. My son is only four months old. His father has never been involved and more or less abandoned me during my pregnancy and that was that. He HAS seen our son a handful of times but has never taken him alone. He's come to my house or I've gone over to his house with the baby. He is the stereotypical deadbeat. Sits around making excuses and making things up, lying about me "keeping his son from him" but never making a single effort to see him. I stopped going out of MY way to try to make plans for visits because every time I did, he would agree to meet up somewhere or come over, etc. but always ends up ditching us (never showing up and ignoring my calls/texts). Yes, babies all have the same basic needs, but our son is definitely a fussier baby that benefits from certain activities and routines or he becomes really upset and sometimes inconsolable. He doesn't have any major health issues but does have special dietary needs. I've tried discussing all of this with his father previously but I get cut off and dismissed and he kept telling me I'm overthinking everything. I'm the one taking care of him 100% of the time so I think I would know. We also do not have any legal custody or visitation set in place, but I know it's getting to the point where I will most likely have to go to court or repeatedly be faced with this behavior from the father. Is he able to just take our son from me like this? It just seems so wrong and doesn't make sense to me why he is doing this all of a sudden. We are in New York State. [link] [comments]  |
| Expected to clock in early without more pay Posted: 30 Nov 2018 04:41 AM PST So the company I work for has a time keeping policy that states that clock in and out times will be rounded to the nearest fifteen minute mark. Due to this anytime we clock in 7 minutes or less early it is not paid. The department I work in specifically has a policy that states that we must be at our desk ready to work at the time that our shift starts. Though there are also other things I must do to make sure my department is ready to go in the morning, so for me to be at my desk ready to work I must clock in early and get my pre-desk duties done. If I do not and I am not at my desk at my scheduled time I will be punished with a "point" (Each point getting me closer to being fired). I work in the state of Wisconsin, is this legal? If not what can I do about it? I do not have any union I can join currently. And I feel like I should state that I do not have any issues coming in early, it makes my day go a lot smoother having those things done before people come in that I have to talk too. I just have a problem with having hours upon hours of unpaid work time because of these policies. Edit: Also if we clock in more than 7 mins early without previous permission we get a point. Thought that was important to add. Edit2: I cannot clock out early, I will get a point. If I clock out more than 7 minutes late I will also get a point. Edit3: looking more into the policy of my workplace here is the policy directly speaking about this. "Minimal deviations (not exceeding 7 minutes) from the employee's regular start or stop time will be disregarded when paying for time worked, as allowed by the "de minimis rule" of the law." The hell is de minimis rule? [link] [comments]  |
| What are possible options for a husband with two kids and an abusive wife. Posted: 30 Nov 2018 09:40 AM PST I have a close friend who told me today that her brother in law is having a hard time dealing with his wife (her sister) more and more. They have been married for ten years and have two kids. My friend and her sister have serious mental health issues running in their family. From schizophrenia to bipolar disorder, depression, multiple substance abuse and anger issues. My friend along with her sister have had pieces of those since they were very young, they're now middle aged. The only problem is her sister does not have medications for it and does not take the ones she has and refuses to get actual help and fuels it with drinking and drugs. In the most recent incident HIS kids have started to pick up sarcastic, underhanded talk about him from their mother and feeding directly back to him. And it's starting to bother him a lot. He has talked to my friend many times before about this type of treatment going on. Spanning from screaming matches to her getting physical and hateful. I do personally know him but he has never said as much to me, just that he understands some of the relationship issues I deal with in my personal life, at least those that we have talked about with each other. My friend told me that he came to the point of breaking down and crying in front of her and that he didnt know what to do. I advised my friend to talk to other family members about her sister so she had a few people backing her up to deter her sister from getting out of control. My friend was really worried about trying that because of how "evil" her sister gets in using other people's short comings as a way to shift focus from herself. In my mind it's starting to sound way worse that I initially thought. She has the whole family in fear of her wraith when they agitate her by talking about her problems. My friend is afraid to confront her alone but has tried before. After hearing this from my friend I told her that in the worst case if her sister doesnt wake up and realize what she is doing that her brother in law should consider telling a lawyer or the police or child protection that he is removing his kids and himself from his wife and taking them somewhere else. My friend didn't think that was a good idea but I managed to at least get her to consider it as an option if things dont change or get worse. I'm not a lawyer or that in touch with the law. What I told her was my own "common" sense reaction to the problem and what I was hearing. If the family is that in fear and the husband is reaching out like he did, it seems appropriate in my mind for him to be able to do that. My main points to my friend were that the father has a solid career and provides for his kids and wife and himself. His wife is a career bartender that doesnt get any benefits from her job and the most she does is work 1-2 days a week, relying on tips to help support her family. The rest is spent at home watching the kids. My friend was worried that because of that there would be no way for him to take the kids because no one is around to take care of them while he is working. That's simply not true. They are also at school for the majority of the day this time of year. As it stands my friend and her family are all too afraid to confront her sister, it's not my place to either though her sister does know that i'm aware of some of the things she has done. I have only been involved in this for two years or so and dont know everyone all that well. I gave my friend the best advice I could but I would like to do better to make sure nothing goes completely wrong legally and so nobody gets violent. I dont know if the whole seperation thing is doable. [link] [comments]  |
| TN - Passed stopped school bus 3 lanes over Posted: 30 Nov 2018 07:04 AM PST I was driving down a road that had 5 lanes, 2 North, 2 South and 1 in the middle for making left turns, getting in, etc. I was on the North bound inner lane and 3 lanes over from a school bus that was stopped. I only recently started driving again after 12 years, was in NYC so didnt need a car. So I'm not used to being aware of a bus stopping, first time I've encountered it in my 2 months here thus far. I did slow down as I wasnt sure the protocol until I realized in my rear view everyone else had stopped. Sure enough a block up was a police car and pulled me over. I understand what I did and will be more cognizant going forward. However the citation is for a court appearance and no details about fine costs. A coworker got riled up saying its an outdated TN law as no sane bus driver would stop in a fashion to allow children to cross 5 lanes of traffic and in KY the middle lane would qualify as a valid divider. The officer said the median had to be physical like grass or such. Should I get an attorney? Just show up on my own and follow procedure? I genuinely care that I messed up, lesson learned to be mindful of the school buses as I have children myself and take it seriously. Only 2nd and 3rd did I think about fines and insurance raises. And on that note what kind of fine am I looking at? How will my insurance be impacted? The date is 3 months away so now I have this anxiety of impending doom about what it all means. Coworker said this area likes to just send people in to pay court fees and noted that it was a State citation and not a municipal and is potentially worse. [link] [comments]  |
| I think a guy I met on the bus started following me on my way to school. Posted: 30 Nov 2018 06:00 AM PST A few months ago a guy on the bus smiled at me and I smiled back. He then spent the whole trip staring at me and I felt really uncomfortable but I didn't say anything. After the bus I always have to take the metro and he has to do that too, but in the opposite direction. But the day he smiled at me he took the metro with me and watched me from the door before taking the opposite train. He did that for one month at least. One day he followed me out of the train and he asked me my name and my phone number. I told him they I didn't want to do it, but he insisted so I got scared and I gave him a fake phone number. He then tried to kiss me so told him I was 14 (he was probably around 25) but he could hardly speak my language (Italian) so I don't know if he got that. Finally a friend arrived and he let me go but not without kissing me on the cheeks. All of this was in February. He continued following me to my train stop and watching me. Luckily I see him only in the morning. Recently anyway I saw him twice behind me and my friend near my school. I'm disturbed and I don't know what to do. What are my rights? Edit: I'm in Italy btw [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 30 Nov 2018 09:04 AM PST Hello, r/legaladvice. I'm posting here on behalf of a friend who lives in West Virginia. A few months ago, her mother and herself moved from her childhood home into an apartment. Her mother is still the owner of the house. They kept some sentimental valuables there and other household goods while they lived in the apartment. Her house has been destroyed by squatters who sprang on the house as soon as it became vacant. They have stolen so many things, taken things inside like clothes, torn apart furniture, even going as far as to rip apart the floors and walls and pulling out wires, presumably to scrap. In one incident, someone inside the house overdosed on drugs and DIED in the house. Law enforcement and paramedics entered the house and removed the body, but never notified them that it had occurred. They found out from a neighbor. So many disgusting this have happened to the house, including leaving bottles of urine on the outside of the house. They have contacted law enforcement several times and absolutely nothing has been done. It once took two phone calls and two hours for any police to show up. Parts of the house have become inaccessible due to walls and floors being torn apart. They don't have any homeowner's insurance and are hesitant to contact a lawyer because of financial hardships. Does anybody have any advice on the steps they can take to retake their property? What can they do to save their home? [link] [comments]  |
| Am I obligated to provide my License to my roommate’s insurance company? Posted: 30 Nov 2018 04:43 AM PST Like the title, my roommate changed insurance recently. They apparently contacted him yesterday and told him to ask me for my drivers license. The agent requested my NCDL so they can run a background check "to make sure I'm not a dangerous driver". A few things: I solely own my house and pay the mortgage. My roommate pays me rent. His name is not on any bills or anything (all in my name). I never drive my roommates car. Never have. Never plan to need to. I've never had insurance through his agency. I have my own insurance. I have never heard of this being a thing. So, do I have any legal obligation to provide any information to his agency? Don't I have a reasonable right to privacy? They're threatening to cancel his insurance if I don't; not sure if it's a bluff. I'm recommending him to find a new insurance agency even though he just signed up with this new one. I'm in NC. He has State Farm Bureau Insurance [link] [comments]  |
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