Legal Advice Passport taken by parents. URGENT |
- Passport taken by parents. URGENT
- Fire in boyfriend's apartment because he removed smoke detector, wants me to pay for damages [FLORIDA]
- [NE] Poisoned at family dinner
- New Home owner. My sump pump pit is a pool of feces, because previous homeowner installed a basement toilet that flushes directly to my sump pump.
- Corporate Pet store sold a deathly ill puppy, who also had forged documents.
- Accidentally voted twice in Oregon?
- (WV) Neighbor paints curb yellow across from driveway on public street to prevent us from parking there, then paints it white so his wife can permanently park there for weeks. They left for vacation before Christmas and painted it yellow again so we, or our guests, couldn’t use it.
- Dog lost and dead due to dog walking app
- Mother stole 28k
- Fathers ex-girlfriend refuses to leave my house after his passing.
- [NSW, AUS] Received a 'cease and desist'/'harassment' letter from a neighbours lawyer
- Dog found, but person wants $600
- Went to the dentist 3 weeks ago and I still can't feel my tongue
- Subpoena to appear in Florida for trespassing that happened 2 years ago I now live in Michigan can I get out of it?
- [VA/WI] My cousin stole an irreplaceable instrument from me and will not make me whole. What are my legal options?
- Knocked co-worker's hat off when we were joking around, now he's filing assault charges
- [TX] My wife cannot handle being a mother, how do I protect myself
- Recovering AA Daughter is not currently in the picture. Her In-laws have custody of only grandchild. I saw grandchild for an hour over the weekend and gave her Xmas gifts. In-laws are mad. Can I see my granddaughter?
- Fired for theft but was given permission by manager to donate food
- [TX] My den flooded again last night. It's my neighbors fault
- Relative has ex-wife as beneficiary of his life insurance policy as per their divorce agreement. Ex-wife verbally agreed (no proof) to amend the agreement but is not honoring that agreement.
- Have to speak to DCF today about a patient complaint
- Received a motion for contempt from a debt collector. I have to go to court, but I am disabled and most likely won't be fully aware enough to answer the judge's questions. I don't want to go to jail, what should I do?
| Passport taken by parents. URGENT Posted: 27 Dec 2018 06:19 AM PST Right so, I'm currently in Algeria wanting to return to the UK, I have British nationality however my passport is being withheld from My by my parents. From what I know my mother took my passport back to the UK with her so there's no chance of me getting hold of it. I am 18 years of age which I believe is old enough to travel alone back to the UK. I have study opportunities to get back to so I need to go back. What can I do to get back as soon as possible, deadlines end in about a month/ 3 weeks. Money for a ticket can be obtained its just the legal papers (passport) that is keeping me here in Algeria. I cannot go to the police since here in Algeria the corruption is crazy, they will take the side of the parents everytime, what do I do? Edit: okay I've spoken to the embassy and they need my passport number to go ahead and give me emergency travel, problem is my passport is with my mother in th UK. What do I do or say to her to send me a picture without her being suspicious? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 27 Dec 2018 07:23 AM PST I have been terribly I'll these past few days coming off of my meds under doctor supervision. We both aren't close to family so on Christmas I came over to cook a nice meal for us. I'm a line cook by trade and consider myself a pretty damn good cook. I decided to go nontraditional and make my best dish, chicken alfredo. I had the chicken in the oven and the noodles boiling on the stove when I felt I was going to be sick. I went to the bathroom and was violently ill for no more than 20 minutes when I smelt something burning. I came out and the stove was on fire. Apparently I left a pot holder too close to the eye and it caught on fire. I was able to put it out myself. I wondered why the smoke detector didn't go off and saw that it had been disconnected! My boyfriend was pissed when he came home and blamed me for the whole thing, but I think it's his fault for being negligent. He brushed that off saying the thing beeped and drove him crazy, so he disconnected it. I had no way of knowing this! He claims he needs a new stove and wants me to pay for it. I told him to kick rocks and dumped his sorry ass. He claims he's going to get a lawyer and I'm a little worried. Am I liable for damages that were caused by his negligence? If he hadn't done what he did, I would have heard the alarm go off and rectified the situation before it got out of control like it did. [link] [comments]  |
| [NE] Poisoned at family dinner Posted: 26 Dec 2018 05:10 PM PST I'm currently on vacation visiting family for Christmas. I'm [20 F] a vegan by choice (however I am allergic to red meat.... I was bitten by a "lone star tick" which caused me to develop a severe allergy to meat) My family makes fun of me for being vegan (though I cook for myself for all meals and don't mention It much at all) Anyway, I guess some of my extended family didn't know the severity of my allergy because my younger cousin [16 M] chopped up steak (extremely finely I guess) and put It in my butternut squash soup. Shorty after I ate some of my soup I couldn't breath and was breaking out in hives. I woke up in the hospital on Christmas Day. (My mom called an ambulance when she saw my face was swelling). My cousin didn't say sorry when I started breaking out in hives. He started laughing and told me what he had done. I woke up to a text from him saying "stop overreacting you need protein" with a picture of a slaughtered cow. His parents aren't very well off (in fact I don't think they have insurance). I just want to know, should I pursue a legal case? Or is that an overreaction. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 27 Dec 2018 10:22 AM PST I'm from Michigan. I just closed on my new house this month. As part of our agreement, the basement was to have a new half bath installed. Unbeknownst to me, or anyone with common sense, instead of having a lift pump or a macerating toilet installed (For approximately $1,000), the previous owner decided to have a new toilet flush directly to my sump pump (Here-to-for called the "Dump pump"). We first found out about this issue during the Christmas party that was held in my basement. This work was completed after my initial inspection, but before final walkthrough and before closing. Everything appeared to be normal during my final walk-through, however the previous homeowner was there guiding the walkthrough. This new feature was never mentioned. It never would have occurred to me to stick my head in the dump pump crock. I feel I was intentionally mislead. Having an open air pool of feces is probably not code. Is there anything I can do? You could say I'm in a ... Crappy Situation. YEEEAAAAHHHHHHHHHhhhhhh! My thinking so far is that a "finished half bath" doesn't count if it's obviously not in a useable condition like it was advertised to be. Thank you all, and happy holidays. [link] [comments]  |
| Corporate Pet store sold a deathly ill puppy, who also had forged documents. Posted: 27 Dec 2018 08:17 AM PST My wifes father bought a golden puppy from a corporate pet store. The puppy was supposed to have come from a very reputable show-type breeder. My inlaw paid a large sum of money. 5 days before Christmas he arrives and appears fine. The day before Christmas he appears sick so they take him to banfield. Banfield says he has Giardia and releases him with antibiotics. Then the puppy appears much worse by Christmas. So Christmas morning they take the puppy to an animal hospital. The puppy tests positive for Parvo as well as Giardia. The first thing my in-laws do is call the breeder out of Ohio, to warn them of a possible outbreak. The breeder says he never sold the "corporate pet store" the puppy. The breeder also says that this is the second time he recieved this call in recent history. Then, my inlaws contact the corparate pet store. They say they will pay the medical bills and give my inlaws a new puppy replacement. The puppy ended up dying last night at the animal hospital. The animal hospital declares that the puppy was recieved by my inlaws with giardia and parvo incubating. What are my inlaws legal options? :::update::: my Inaws just spoke with the corporate pet store. They will not refund the large sum, only replace with a new puppy. [link] [comments]  |
| Accidentally voted twice in Oregon? Posted: 27 Dec 2018 06:02 AM PST I'm going to try and keep this brief, as I am confused and scared. In 2018 I changed my name, and had reregestered to vote. Our ballots are mailed to us here, and I got one for my old name. I sent that one in, and thought nothing of it. A couple weeks later, I got an updated ballot with my current name, so I figured the old one got rejected and they sent just sent me a new one. I filled it out, and sent it in. I just got a letter from the secretary of state asking if I had changed my name last year, and sent in two ballots. I wrote them back explaining what happened. What happens next? Edit: Spelling and clarity fixes. Talked with a lawyer, she said it sounds like a weird scenario, and if anybody asks what happens, just to say what happened. Otherwise, she said, do nothing. I responded to thier questions honestly, and that's what she would have said to do. Of course I had to legal Web MD this, and found instances of honest mistakes being made with the mail in votes in Oregon before, and that being resolved by the person losing thier voter registration. Which still sucks, but is better than most anything else. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 27 Dec 2018 12:11 PM PST We live at the end of a street that wraps around and essentially becomes a rectangle with another street. Our house sits on one side of this corner/"end" and our neighbor is directly across from us. He parks a huge RV/his truck in his driveway so his wife has to park her van around the corner on the other street instead of in his driveway. When we moved in, there was an area outside of our front yard that the curb was clearly not painted and we used it maybe 4-5 times when we had friends visit. This curb is directly across from his driveway. He asked us one day to not park there anymore because it was hard for his wife to get out of the driveway (whose van never moves from the spot around the corner?) and we agreed to avoid it unless we had guests. He didn't seem satisfied with our answer but left. A day or so later we noticed that he had spray painted (literally) the curb yellow overnight so that we couldn't park there anymore. We just shrugged it off because parking isn't a huge deal and I'm not about to go to war with a neighbor over something so silly. However, a few days later he spray painted it white, then parked his wife's van there and it didn't move for weeks. They just left for vacation before Christmas and he spray painted it yellow AGAIN, parked the van in their driveway and took the truck wherever they went. This all seems super petty and dumb, but my husband parked there since they were gone last night and this morning we had a parking citation. Our neighbor has a ring on his door and I feel that he saw the movement, saw the parked car, and called the cops. It is painfully obvious he is spray painting the curb (different color yellow, paint sprayed into our grass, cinder blocks just sitting there so he can use them again next paint job). What can I do? Is this behavior even legal? How can I contest the citation? tl;dr: neighbor is painting public curb to his benefit, we believe he called the cops on us for parking there while they were out of town. Can he continue painting the public curb as he sees fit and can I contest the citation we received based on his behavior? [link] [comments]  |
| Dog lost and dead due to dog walking app Posted: 27 Dec 2018 11:36 AM PST Asking for a friend since this just happened a week ago, in California. One of my best friends had a super sweet Chihuahua mix which she adopted over 3 years ago and she loved to death. Recently she had work and decided to use the Wag app to make sure her dog got walked while she was out. She had used the app a few times before with no problem but recently had this major issue. Unfortunately the dog walker, who was a full grown man, lost control of the leash of this 7 lb dog and it ran away from him. He called when he lost the dog but didn't keep looking, she came home from work and looked all night until she found her dog had been hit by a car. I know that these apps probably have you agree to stuff in their terms of service, but is there any way she can help get over this loss? Is it the app or the walker responsible? Trying to figure out what would be the best for her [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 27 Dec 2018 06:23 AM PST I have an annuity due to a wrongful death case involving my father. From age 18-21 I received lump-sums in the amount of 28k (mother said it was strictly for college, and whatever was left goes in pocket). I struggled with heroin addiction from 15-22 years old. When I was 21 I was in a 30 day inpatient program. Probably about 10 days in my mother shows up for a family session. During this session she quietly slides me a check and tells me to sign the back, so I did (apparently, I do not remember signing). For context, I was roughly 10 days off of a heavy IV heroin addiction, and I had recently been put on Depakote thrice daily and Zyprexa twice daily due to a wrongful bipolar diagnosis. Basically, I was not in my right mind. The check I apparently signed was my year 21 annuity check in the amount of $28,000. My mother later told me she cashed it and put it into an account for me for when I was ready to return to college (I had finished 2 years at this point). Great, I'm not worried about it. More worried about staying off heroin. Fast forward to now, it has been about 3.5 years, and I have been off of heroin and all psych meds (with no indication of bipolar) for nearly 3 years. Roughly six months ago I told my mother I was applied for a school and was going back to finish my bachelors and I needed my 28k. She spent it all. She has no money of her own. She received a large settlement in my father's case, but she blew through hers on crack benders and the like. She now lives paycheck to paycheck with no money saved. She recently told me she has 75k equity in her home. That I know. I realize some of this information may be revealing, but at this point it do not care. I have no idea what to do. I do not care if I bankrupt my mother. This occurred in Illinois where my mother lives. I no longer live in that state. Thank you for your help. [link] [comments]  |
| Fathers ex-girlfriend refuses to leave my house after his passing. Posted: 27 Dec 2018 08:20 AM PST My father passed in mid October. His ex-girlfriend has moved SOME of her stuff out of my home, but is still coming up with excuses as to why she cannot move all of it. I have offered to PAY for her storage. I've offered to buy a U-Haul and move it myself! She comes into the house and has a huge chip on her shoulder as if to say "Why do you get to stay here and not me?". Because it's my childhood home, you're not his spouse, and the house isn't paid off and we will be moving in the future! I've been very cordial. She is not homeless. She has 20 places to stay at and she does. She just uses my house as a place to store her stuff. I am not telling her this to be mean or personal, but the process has to start. We need to get moving. My thought is that she will not move her stuff until she sees what happens with the estate payout, but that's not happening. You are not using my own home as leverage. There is no documentation say it's her house. My father never intended for her to stay / have the place after he passed. I have been VERY, VERY delicate about this. I've helped her move everything I could. I've given her entire days - WEEKS of time to get her stuff out and it is always another excuse. At this rate I am considering renting a U-Haul, buying her a storage locker and moving it myself. There is no time in this process for emotions or petty mind games. I have to move too, she's lived here 1 year, I've lived her 15. It's not easy for me. What do I do!? I am from PA. [link] [comments]  |
| [NSW, AUS] Received a 'cease and desist'/'harassment' letter from a neighbours lawyer Posted: 27 Dec 2018 05:31 AM PST A couple of years ago a neighbours house was partially destroyed in a fire. He hasn't done anything with it until recent months, in which he decided he wanted to... Remodel the house, I'm guessing. There wasn't a fence around the house for a long time, and it was known there was asbestos in the building. When he first started work, no one was in any protective clothing, there were no warnings about the asbestos removal, and it was a generally unsafe environment - especially seeing as the interior he had pulled out was just dumped out into his yard, and there are a lot of children in this street. Also the house had a demolition order on it... A few of us around him had reported him to the local council and workplace and safety. They acted quick on it, making him go through proper removalists and to put a fence back up around the property. The councilman we spoke to assured us our identities wouldn't be compromised, for this neighbour is a nasty man, and we have had many issues over several years with him. -- Today, 27/12/18, however, those of us that had reported him have received a rather threatening cease and desist letter, simply addressed to "THE NEIGHBOURS", claiming we are harassing him. Part of it reads:
-- He is threatening legal action/suing us. They are not baseless complaints though... I can't go into detail anything he's done over the past 10 years - but he is the kind of person to use money to pay off judges, hire people to do illegal activities etc. So, a couple questions...
-- ** The law firm is closed for holidays from 21/12/18 - 14/01/19. The date on the letter itself is 21/12/18 however, the postal stamp is dated 26/12/18. I don't know if this has any significance, the whole thing is just seeming very suss to me. **During typing this up I did some more research, and it seems that the specific law firm they name isn't registered anymore. It was cancelled last year. Any help and advice is appreciated [link] [comments]  |
| Dog found, but person wants $600 Posted: 27 Dec 2018 12:01 AM PST UPDATE: 12/27 dog has been returned. Thank you for all your help. On December 23 my aunts dog got out of our house while we weren't home and didn't realize it till after we got got back home, we put up posts on Facebook on lost and found animal groups where I offered a cash reward, but never specified how much. We also put up flyers around my neighborhood but didn't advertise the cash reward on them. We got a call Christmas Day that someone had found the dog and explained that they almost hit it so they picked it up. ( they also mentioned the reward even though we didn't advertise it on the flyer)And the next day on the 24th their grandson saw our flyers and told them to contact us. So my aunt and mom set up a time to meet them that day at a local Walmart (The people that had the dog went to Pasadena for Christmas Eve so they said they'd be a few hours) after a few hours of no response they text them for an update and finally getting a reply that they were sorry and were a bit busy so they wouldn't be able to meet. (Understandable since it was Christmas Day) After we got home from Christmas my aunt texted them again and didn't get a reply until this morning, again saying they were sorry and should be back up today, however they also said they'd get off between 4-430pm and would text them an address to pick up the dog at (this sent off a bunch of red flags in our heads and we planned to bring a relative who's in law enforcement with us) 430pm passes and there's still no update until they finally contact, but saying their suspension broke and would need $600 to fix it. So we filed s police report, but I'm not sure if there's anything else we can do Any suggestions? We live in CA if that helps [link] [comments]  |
| Went to the dentist 3 weeks ago and I still can't feel my tongue Posted: 27 Dec 2018 05:00 AM PST I went to the dentist for a routine filling and the dentist hit my lingual nerve. They brushed it off for a few days, then sent me to their dental surgeon who confirmed she caused nerve damage. This essentially means I have constant pins and needles in my tongue now. The surgeon said it could take up to 10 months to heal completely. Think there's enough of a case for dental litigation? [TORONTO] [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 27 Dec 2018 07:43 AM PST 2 years ago I was a shift supervisor at a CVS in Florida we called the cops on a nightly basis. I have moved since then about a year and a half ago. I just got a subpoena saying I need to be in Florida for a trespassing trial as a witness. Will I be forced to go. I can't afford it and it would be a $2000 expense for something I don't even remember [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 27 Dec 2018 10:24 AM PST Hi LA, my situation is not the most urgent or complex but I'd still love to get some advice on how to proceed. Tl;dr, a cousin sold my instrument without my permission and has refused numerous attempts to reimburse me. If I ask him one last time for reimbursement and inform him if he doesn't reimburse me I'll be going to the police, is that extortion? Are there any other options for me? I live in Virginia, and my cousin who stole from me lives in Wisconsin. The long version - one parent's side of the family is pretty screwed up. My uncle George (names changed of course) has lived a long life full of doing shitty things. A few years ago he was indicted of a sex crime and spent a few months in jail, but it does not seem to have changed him at all. (This is an important factor in my decision-making.) He is emotionally and physically abusive, so I have a lot of sympathy for his kids. One of his kids, Tim, is 17. A few years ago he asked if he could borrow an instrument I kept at our mutual grandparent's house. I said yes on the condition that he would give it back to me when I next visited and he said yes. (Unfortunately I don't have record of this, since I deactivated my Facebook after - and also didn't think this would turn out this way.) The first time I visited after he borrowed the instrument, I let him know in advance that we were coming and we'd like it back, but he didn't give it back. The second time I visited was this past September. I gave him advance notice that I'd like it back. He gave my parent a different instrument that was clearly not mine for me to bring home, before leaving for school for the day. Another family member informed me that Tim's mother knew Tim had sold the instrument to a friend. I left the "fake" instrument in his house with a letter politely telling him I knew the instrument he gave me was not mine, that he had sold mine, and to please Venmo or PayPal me $200 to go towards purchasing a new instrument. This was at the end of September. I do have pictures of the note and instrument in their house. The instrument in question was purchased across the world, in an entirely different country, back in 2010. It was a starter instrument and $200 is about what it will cost to buy a comparable starter in today's market. Same brand and features. Much of the value of my instrument was sentimental, and it's irreplaceable, but the reimbursement will at least make me whole financially and allow me to replace it with a new one. Here's the issue - Tim is refusing to pay. He was incredibly hostile and offensive when I reached out to him in early October to touch base on reimbursement. For a while he tried to tell me he would secure the original instrument for me and ship it to me if it meant he didn't have to pay the $200, but that conversation was back in October. He stopped responding to me and giving me updates on the status of returning the original instrument in November. I have all of this in writing via Facebook Messenger, including the phrase "I'm sorry I sold your [instrument]" and other admissions of guilt. My parent related to his father will not get involved because of father's toxicity. Financially, not being reimbursed is not the end of the world. I am fortunate that $200 is something I can swing to replace the instrument. However, I shouldn't have to - my cousin stole from me by selling my possession without my knowledge or consent and pocketing the cash, and has admitted guilt in writing. More importantly, I do love and care for my cousin, and he has watched his dad do immoral and illegal things for years with minor consequences. I want him to have to face some kind of consequence for stealing, hopefully just reimbursing me. I really, genuinely hope it will deter him from going down a path of stealing. (He lives with his parents, works after school, and makes good money doing so - he can afford it, he just doesn't want to. He has an instrument worth ~$2,000 that money from selling mine could have gone to!!) I feel my last option at this time is to file a stolen item report with his local police department and have things progress from there. I really don't want to involve the police if I don't have to. I have been trying to avoid it but he's no longer responsive and he never made it right. So here's my main question: if I tell him (and cc his mom) that I'm filing a police report tomorrow if he doesn't reimburse me, is that technically extortion? I really want to solve this without police involvement and have made numerous, good faith attempts to do so. I have been trying to treat him as an adult, as he wants to be treated, but I think he doesn't take me or the situation seriously and therefore it would take a more legitimate authority like the police for him to make things right. Additionally, I'm the victim of the crime, and I am not asking him for more money than it would take to replace the instrument. If informing him beforehand would be illegal, do I just file the police report tomorrow and let the chips fall where they may? A minor question would be: is there anything else I can do legally beyond filing a report with the police? I lurk regularly and often see people suggest a lawyer writes the offender a letter - but that could cost as much as my reimbursement. I should add that though I do love my cousin and want the best for him, I don't care if the final legal action I take pisses him off/could be considered a "relationship-ender". The disrespect he's shown me in selling my instrument, concealing the sale from me, and the awful things he's said to me were "relationship-enders" anyway. Thanks in advance! Think I got all the details. [link] [comments]  |
| Knocked co-worker's hat off when we were joking around, now he's filing assault charges Posted: 27 Dec 2018 10:48 AM PST Hey guys, so last night me and a co worker were joking around like we always do and he was trying to get a ride out of me because that's the kind of guy he is. I jokingly hit the brim of his hat and it ended up knocking his hat off and then walked inside to take care of some other business. I thought nothing of it because we normally just mess around and I saw it as just a way to mess around. I come in this morning and my managers pull me into the office and make me write down in my own words what happened with the incident and when I go to apologize to the guy and say i didn't mean it maliciously he says he has already filed assault charges with the police. He is the kind of guy who takes advantage of any situation he can and I can see one of 3 things going on with the first two being the most prevalent. 1) he is trying to get a lawsuit and make some quick money right before his retirement 2) he is trying to get me fired because then there is less competition (we are in car sales and I'm generally one of the top guys) 3) he actually felt assaulted. Is there any legal grounds for this? Do I need to get a lawyer? What should my next steps be? I'm in California btw. [link] [comments]  |
| [TX] My wife cannot handle being a mother, how do I protect myself Posted: 27 Dec 2018 11:45 AM PST My wife has always had a difficult time being organized, but the past few years have been too much. We recently moved from CA to TX. I am a full-time professor in Dallas, and we have two children (boy and girl). She stays at home to take care* of the children. I felt that with time, she'd improve, but it's been 6 years and I constantly worry about our children. It's gotten to the point of depression and anxiety disorders, seeing a therapist. She believes that I am overprotective of them. I find food all over the house, doors left open at night, dangerous objects (knives, trash, broken toys, pills) around our messy home constantly. The children have been hurt before by her carelessness before, but she promises improvement every time. I don't believe her anymore. Is there a way to keep a record of her negligence to protect myself if/when something bad happens again? Will I be in trouble for not reporting this sooner? I am willing to divorce her, but I fear losing custody of my children. At least like this, I can take care of them when I am not at work (though I may need a second job to make ends meet soon). Where do I begin? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 27 Dec 2018 07:28 AM PST California My adult daughter (27) and her husband are raging alcoholics that were sheltered by in-laws (Daughters husbands parents) for several years and, IMO, allowed to continue lifestyle. They drove drunk with child in the car and generally made fools of themselves at social functions. In-laws eventually is enough and kicked them out a few years ago. Daughter and husband finally went too far and got arrested. DUI. Since I have younger kids I am raising, I told Daughter that I hope she gets better, but that we have no room for her in our home until she recovers. After shelling out $10,000 for rehab once and being told to fuck of afterwards, I am tired of exposing my younger kids to this situation. My resources are finite and I would rather use them to raise younger kids right than drag an adult in and out of rehab and be abused for doing it. She crossed my line. In-laws ended up with custody of granddaughter after daughter went into new rehab (Florida) and moved several hours away with granddaughter (still in California). Daughters birth-mother (we had Daughter many years ago after a short relationship) called me over the weekend and told me she had granddaughter visiting from in-laws for the day. I asked if I could pick her up and giver her some presents we had purchased for her (had them under the tree not knowing if we would actually see her). She said yes. It was great!!! Some ice cream and many pictures later, we returned her after an hour. In-laws found out and got mad. Texted me saying I have no right to see granddaughter because I abandoned my Daughter. Granted, I have not seen her in a year, but that's because they live far away and I started anew job. Do I have a right to see my grand daughter? [link] [comments]  |
| Fired for theft but was given permission by manager to donate food Posted: 27 Dec 2018 10:43 AM PST This is in NY, NY. I work at a grocery store (national chain). I work in the bakery, and was closing on Christmas Eve. We were closing early on Christmas Eve for obvious reasons and I was told to clear the bakery and shelves of a large amount of baked goods from bread, cookies, pies and cakes before closing my section. Since we were not going to be open on Christmas we were to throw out a lot more than usual. Being it was Christmas I asked if instead of tossing it all if I could donate it to two local shelters, I asked my manager this in a text message and received a response back saying yes I could and even leave early to do the drop offs so the time it took to drive there etc didn't eat into my Christmas Eve too much. I had to call up my brother to come on down to the store and help me load it all up and deliver it since it didn't fit into my car. So all goes well, we ended up going to 4 different shelters in the area to drop everything off. They are happy, we feel good and I text my manager again to say we are done and where we dropped stuff off at and wish him a merry Christmas. He responds and is happy we could help. I come in last on Christmas day well after the holiday is over and start baking what's needed for the next day. I receive a call at midnight from my manager asking if I am baking, tell him yes and get says my counterpart who usually gets in early AM is on the way now and to be in the store at 9:30am and that the store manager wants to see me. So I wait for him to show up and head on home, I honestly thought it was going to be some "good job" pat on the back thing for the Christmas donations. I was really wrong on that.. get in and am immediately asked if I donated all the baked goods, then told I am being terminated for theft and if I return to the store again that they'll bring charges against me that would be felonies because of the amount >$2500. My department manager is there along with my store manager and my department manager, the one who gave me permission is silent. I speak up saying I asked my manager if this was okay and showed them the texts. This kind of took the heat off me and I was asked to leave the office. After about 20 minutes sitting around I'm told to go home and report in for my shift that night. Whatever I figure, miscommunication and they never bothered to ask my manager what happened before talking to me. I head in last night to start my baking for the night, finish out and head home. I then get a call early today telling me to again come in. I head in again this morning and informed that my department manager has lied and said I faked the text messages. I am then fired for theft and told to not come back. So here I am, fired and being threatened with felony charges for doing what my department manager authorized. Is this worth taking to an employment attorney? I worked there for 6 years and was never even written up once, never stole anything and now I'm being fired when I did nothing wrong [link] [comments]  |
| [TX] My den flooded again last night. It's my neighbors fault Posted: 27 Dec 2018 08:24 AM PST My house is built on a kind of slope, so it's not unheard of for our den to flood when it flash floods outside. Usually my dad and I will go out and dig a drainage ditch in our side yard, but those have only barely worked in the past. A few months ago, the den flooded, and my dad determined that the reason is because our neighbors (whose house we once owned) have a drain on their property that has gotten clogged. My dad then asked the owner of the property if he could dig out the drain, because it is causing our den to flood. His message was ignored. Last night, it flash flooded, and my dad and I spent the better part of an hour cleaning up our den, which was 3 inches underwater. The tiling is damaged, many electronics have been ruined, and our rugs are all but done for. All because our neighbors refuse to dig out a drainage ditch. We cannot afford a lawyer, but I'm wondering if we have any other options available. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 27 Dec 2018 08:29 AM PST As the title suggests, my relative (let's call him F) has recently divorced his wife of about 10 years (let's call her X) in the US State of CO. F now finds himself in a situation where he has agreed to maintain X as the sole beneficiary of his life insurance policy in their divorce agreement. X has verbally agreed to relinquish this claim but is now backing down from that. From my layperson perspective, it does not seem like F has much recourse given the situation, but he is seeking legal counsel to investigate his options nonetheless. Any advice on how F should proceed? The details of the situation are as follows: · F mistakenly signed a divorce agreement that stipulates "Husband will maintain the term life insurance policy with X as the beneficiary for as long as he shall survive. Husband shall reinstate Wife as beneficiary following the date of the decree and shall provide Wife with proof of insurance upon request." · F realized this before the 90 'grace period' that CO law requires in divorce agreements, and confronted X about changing this (rather than just amending the documents first). · X blew up at this point. She started crying claimed that for emotional reasons she needed the divorce to become final the next week. F, in an apparent moment of ill-advised weakness and trust, told X that he "will let the divorce go through if she promised to, in the next 30 days, get a legal document drawn up that negates that stipulation. X verbally agreed to these terms and promised to act as F requested in return for allowing the divorce to proceed without amendment to the agreement. There is no proof of this agreement. · The divorce became final, at which point X began calling F requesting proof that he was paying the policy and that X was the beneficiary. F sent her proof that he was paying the policy but didn't offer her any proof that she was his beneficiary because she was not. As soon as I realized what she was doing, F made his son and 2 stepsons his beneficiaries. · Since then, despite repeated attempts on F's part to get X to get the legal paperwork to him, she refused to respond. · After a bit, X agreed to meet F to discuss the situation. They met at a restaurant in nearby. F confronted X with her lack of fulfilling what she had promised, and although she never once denied making the promise, she began attacking F personally and started trying to negotiate, saying at one point that she would take 50% and then in the next breath upped that number to 75%. After F continued to deny her request, X finally got up and walked out. Thoughts on any recourse for F? As I mentioned, F is seeking actual legal counsel, but any advice would be greatly appreciated. [link] [comments]  |
| Have to speak to DCF today about a patient complaint Posted: 27 Dec 2018 08:30 AM PST So I'm currently a mental health technician in the state of florida and I've been working at my hospital for 4 years. For the first time, I've had a patient file an abuse claim against me saying I stomped on her toe and broke her foot... her foot isn't broken and I didn't stomp on her foot. Yesterday, the DCF investigator called me at work and was asking me a few normal questions. Then he asks me for my social security number, I told him I wasn't comfortable giving that info out over a phone call, especially when I can't verify who he is. He got very obviously annoyed and told me I needed to come into his office yesterday. I told him I was at work and I would have to speak to my boss about leaving. My boss calls him up and the investigator says that I'm impeding an investigation by not giving my social (I said I wouldn't give that out over the phone) and that if I was a nurse that my license could be revoked or suspended for not giving that information. My question is is that actually true, if a situation like this came up as a nurse and I refused to give my social, would that be grounds for revocation or suspension. And how far do I have to comply with this, I don't like handing out my social out if I don't have to. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 27 Dec 2018 12:09 AM PST (I am in Wisconsin.) So I took horrible advice online that said that, because I have no income or assets and am disabled, I should just ignore the debt collectors calling after me. I am jobless and currently house-sitting a family member's fully furnished home, so I have no money coming in besides disability nor have any big ticket items for them to take, so I figured they really wouldn't bother coming after me in court. Bad advice, stupid idea on my part, when I ignored them threatening to take me to court. I thought it was a bluff. They demanded I give them my last two pay stubs, last two bank statements, and last two year's worth of tax returns. I obviously have NONE of those things and I figured that as lawyers they would know this. ...but now I've been served papers for "creditor's notice of motion and motion for contempt" and have to show up to court in a few days. To answer why I failed to give them the non-existent papers they asked for and to be punished for being in contempt of court, which I'm guessing means jail? I'm terrified because I have severe epilepsy and social anxiety/agoraphobia and rarely leave the house, and when I'm out for too long the anxiety attacks trigger seizures and I wind up out of it for the day... so I'm about 99.9% sure that the stress of being in court is going to trigger one the minute I walk in there, leaving me completely spaced out and unable to answer questions or defend myself while the judge and debt collectors decide my fate. Is there a specific way I should go about this, like a certain department at the courthouse to contact about my disability, or am I just going to get tossed to the wolves and thrown in some loophole debtor's prison? I know literally zero about trials and courts except for the exaggerated crap on legal dramas. [link] [comments]  |
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