Legal Advice [Update] [TX] I (14F) do not feel safe at home and am convinced i need to leave. Where do i go? What do I do? |
- [Update] [TX] I (14F) do not feel safe at home and am convinced i need to leave. Where do i go? What do I do?
- [GA] Tattoo artist is threatening to sue for libel and defamation for a Google review I wrote about my bad experience.
- School Requiring $15 For Students to Receive Phone Taken By a Teacher
- Sister (25) has been finding her clothes with semen on them, most evidence points to it being our uncle. What can she do?
- I got sent home from work on Friday and told HR would be involved but I have had no communication since. What should I do?
- Child support in NY is 17% of their income. I know he works FT - and the $50 Im getting doesnt add up. What am I missing here?
- [IN] My ex and I are still legally married as far as I know but I just found out she remarried.
- My employer is trying to force me into mental health counseling by putting my employment on the line.
- Attempted Second degree murder?
- Employer in California is requiring servers to pay 3% of sales back to restaurant for “tip pooling” this is a privately owned franchise of a huge chain, you might even say that they are “international”
- Catatstrophic flood in apartment building has permanently displaced me. What are my options here? (Ontario)
- Stolen Super Bowl Tickets from Hotel Room
- School next to our house has been pushing all of their snow/water runoff directly into our yard and it’s causing severe property damage (IA)
- Disability hearing, tomorrow, and Crohn's Disease.
- Divorce paperwork
- Moved from FL to NY thinking our home would be ready but it wasnt even close to being ready.
- Several people are effectively squatting in my apartment. How should I remove them.
- (MS / LA) Rescued my disabled brother (21m) from his highly abusive father, now threatened with kidnapping.
- Someone got a traffic violation in my name
- [SC] my father-in-law passed away with no will and a lot of medical debt. House is possibly being foreclosed on. No clue what to do or how to proceed.
- Eviction of renter: renter claims she gets a “free Section 8 legal team.” Says she will sue me (her neighbor) for “racism.” Bonus - in her home is a convicted pedophile.
- [CA]Friend suing me for $100K
- [IN] No recorded easement on property
| Posted: 03 Feb 2019 07:59 AM PST Update for tx_i_14f_do_not_feel_safe_at_home_and_am In my edit I said a friend was taking me to the police station. We got there and I told them basically what's in my post. They called my mom and she got to the station and acted all innocent and sympathetic, but denied anything was wrong. The police I talked to said they couldn't really do anything because no crimes have been committed, but they did contact CPS. We then discussed about where I would go and my mom agreed to let me stay at my friends house for now. I haven't heard from my mom since. My friend and I drove past the house this morning and would have gotten some more of my things, but her boyfriends car was in the driveway so we kept going. Not sure what will happen next, but I'm a bit worried because obviously mom is still with him and I don't think I can feel safe with him around ever. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 02 Feb 2019 10:19 PM PST I wrote a Google review about my negative experience I had with a tattoo artist. I got an email from his lawyer stating that he will sue me if I don't take down the review by Monday, February 4th. Does he have grounds for a lawsuit? Should I take my review down? Here is the review I wrote (tattoo artist name omitted): My review is on my experience with (Tattoo artist's name) at (Tattoo artist's studio). (Tattoo artist's name) has made permanent mistakes on my body that I will have to live with forever. When I confronted him on the mistakes, he said that I couldn't expect everything to be perfect in a piece this big. It is shocking to hear that from your tattoo artist and I hope nobody else has to experience hearing that. I paid $3,500 for my tattoo. If I'm paying that price, I expect things to be perfect. I had to blackout parts of my body to cover his mistakes. (pictures attached) (Tattoo artist's name) is a poor planner and made mistakes in the design that he completely abandoned in the MIDDLE of the process. The lines he did during the first session are the same lines he left me with after the final session. I can prove this with pictures sent through time-stamped emails. When I confronted him about it, he said that things got "too busy looking" in that area to work on any further. I have saved correspondence where he admits this. He left me with lines that are so sloppy, only pictures can explain what kind of work he left me with. Those lines are what he calls straight and complete. (pictures attached) (Tattoo artist's name) is heavy handed and left me with some serious bruising and infections. I witnessed him puncture through too far and it caused a serious infection that caused a viral wart in my elbow ditch. (pictures attached) (Tattoo artist's name) was 30 minutes late to our first session because he was working on someone else but still charged for the full time. He also scheduled a 30-minute consultation during my second session. Time that I paid for. When I asked why he did that, he said he forgot I was scheduled all day. I asked him to reschedule the consultation and he refused. (Tattoo artist's name) has left me with unfinished work that he is refusing to finish. I have it in writing where he admitted it was uneven. Anyone with eyes can see that it is STILL uneven and he is refusing to make it right. I debated for months on whether I should leave this review. I tried to get used to my tattoo and live with the mistakes but it has bothered me everyday since I've gotten it. I decided to write my experience so other people don't have to live with permanent mistakes on their bodies forever. I spend hours every single day thinking about and looking at the mistakes in my tattoo. Go to an artist that doesn't make mistakes. Attached pictures are after over 27 HOURS of scheduled tattoo time. That is the work he left me with. That is his definition of complete. Don't let cherry-picked Instagram photos fool you. I think (Tattoo artist's name) does some great work (that's why I chose him) but my experience with him has been a nightmare. Pictures are worth a thousand words so if you don't believe what I'm saying, just look at the pictures I attached. EDIT: Photos aren't showing up yet, probably due to google's servers updating. I will check later to see if photos show up. If you can't see them, message me and I'll gladly send pictures proving everything I've written. [link] [comments]  |
| School Requiring $15 For Students to Receive Phone Taken By a Teacher Posted: 02 Feb 2019 03:09 PM PST I'm asking this due to having this happen personally to me. Basically what happened was I was on my phone, a close family member had been having medical issues and I was keeping tabs on them. I decided that since my teacher wasn't teaching I could check my phone. Long story short she took it and sent it to the office, requiring a parent or guardian to retrieve my phone for me(pretty standard stuff for a school). My guardian came to pick it up, but the office worker said the school requires a fee of $15 to any phones brought in by a teacher. Both my guardian and I were very confused, we even asked what the funds did, the lady replied with "the school, the students". My guardian and I were very confused, but we paid the fee anyways. As we left the school we discussed wether what happened was legal or not. We both came upon the conclusion that their loophole had to be "for the students". I'm in Texas and I have friends all across the state, but not one of them have heard of their school requiring a fee like that. I was interested if anyone could explain the legality of it to me. (Sorry for the poor editing, I'm on mobile) Edit: Fixed indention for PC Edit2: Thank you everyone for your comments, I've come to the conclusion that it is legal and in there rights. Thank you so much! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 03 Feb 2019 11:43 AM PST Let me start by saying our uncle is around 65 and had a stroke that caused him to be on a feeding tube three years ago, but has lived with our parents for over 10 years. My sister also lives with our parents because she's currently in school. My younger brother (22) lives with my parents as well. They live in the state of Massachusetts, as do I. This whole fiasco started about in October, where my sister left her a clean set of clothes on her bed for when she got out of the shower, and her underwear went missing while she was in the shower. She looked everywhere in her room but didn't find it, so she put another one after drying up. After getting dressed, she finds her underwear covered in semen underneath the kitchen sink. She immediately screams for my brother to come into the kitchen, where she shows him the underwear but he says it wasn't him. The only other person in the house at the time was our uncle, because the outside cameras show no cars in the driveway other than my sister's. They confront uncle about it but he says it wasn't him, so nothing comes out of it. Fast forward a day after that, and my sister again leaves out her clothes on her bed for after she's out of the shower. She makes sure to lock her door and brings the key with her into the bathroom, where she also locks the door. The only one in the house at that time was our uncle and our mother. Sister comes out to find her door open, and her underwear is missing. She screams for my mom who rushes to her room. Sister tells my mom what happened the day before, then tells her she's afraid it happened again. Our mother was furious, and goes to look under the sink where my sister found her underwear last time. Sure enough, there's her underwear covered in semen again. This continues to happen once a week over the course of a month, so my sister decides to change her door and lock. This stops her clothes from going missing for about three months. So now it's January and my sister, brother, and parents all go out for dinner with me for my birthday , but our uncle stays home because he "isn't feeling well". When they return home, my sister finds two of her shirts on her bed covered in semen. She's had enough and yells at my uncle telling him to leave her alone or she'll call the police, but Uncle says it wasn't him and goes into his room. My sister decides to buy 3 EXTRA LOCKS for her door the day after for extra security, and gives her spare key to me since I live in my own house. Ever since then it hasn't happened, but my sister is very afraid that our uncle might try and rape her. She refuses to shower at our parents house so she goes to her friends house to shower. I let her sleep over my house whenever I can, but I fear for her safety. My mother doesn't want to kick out our uncle because he can't work and needs special food packs for his feeding tube. What kind of legal action, if any, can we take? I'm willing to buy a camera to catch him in the act if need be, but I am very worried for my sister's safety. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 03 Feb 2019 09:35 AM PST I'm in California. Ever since I started at my new job in Nov 2018 I have had issues with my boss. Every time I asked for a 1X1 to discuss work-related things he canceled it. He handed me lab work (I'm a chemist) and when I couldn't reproduce his exact results he would get angrier and angrier. When I asked for help to understand where I was going wrong, he told me he only deals in facts and the facts are he can do it and I cannot. When I worked a half day to take my son to an appointment (I had disclosed to my boss he was newly diagnosed autistic and we needed to get him services), he later told me he didn't hire me to have a son with "issues". I have emails of me asking what my job is, asking for clarification, asking to be trained. I have emails of him telling me to falsify my timesheet (do not put down more than 8 hours, I was expected to work 10 hours). I have experienced a lot of abuse from the man. But I documented things, tried to continue to communicate, and it all blew up on Friday. He stormed into lab, told me everything I do is wrong, drop my work and leave immediately. "I'm talking to HR this isn't working out". Clearly, he sent me home in a manner to illustrate I was fired/going to be fired. I literally did nothing but not reproduce his exact results and he flew off the handle. I have had no follow-up from HR. Or him. Do I email HR at this point to ask for a meeting on Monday? I certainly am not going to work for this man any longer but I will seek some sort of compensation. I'd like to at least get terminated so I can collect unemployment while I look for a new job. He clearly hasn't looped HR in on anything and has no true understanding about labor laws. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 03 Feb 2019 06:25 AM PST I also suspect hes working under the table. Can I find out where he works or his address from child support paperwork? [link] [comments]  |
| [IN] My ex and I are still legally married as far as I know but I just found out she remarried. Posted: 03 Feb 2019 09:35 AM PST My ex and I have been split for a little over 3 years but we never got a divorce. Life just happened and I assume we both got busy, I know this was stupid. I am an America citizen. She is Hungarian, with German citizenship, who is living in Hungary. I saw through photos that she recently got married to another American man there in Hungary. She isn't the sharpest and would absolutely take a stupid risk like illegal remarriage if it meant getting her back to the states. I don't want to drag anything out or go after her, I just want it to be done. How do I go about finding whether or not we are still married if I can't get in contact with her about it? We lived, and were married in, Missouri. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 02 Feb 2019 05:48 PM PST The Incident: On Wednesday January 23rd I was pulled into the office of my boss (lets call her Nancy), she mentioned it came to her attention that I had made statements of suicide and 'did I have anything to say about that'. In shock, I said no. She went on to explain that the Texas University we work for offers services for mental health counseling. She handed me a single sheet of paper with basic contact information obviously cut and pasted off the university website and made me say I would tell her when I scheduled the appointment. This meeting I found WILDLY inappropriate for a multitude of reasons. Mostly because it was conducted in the least caring way, obviously done as a measure to release herself or the university of blame in case of any incident and it was conducted not by my supervisor but by my supervisor's supervisor, with whom I do not have a great relationship. If anything, it was conducted by the person that causes me the most grief in the office. After explaining that I have plenty of doctor appointments and personal appointments clearing out my paid leave hours she just made me promise to tell her when I scheduled an appointment saying they would find someone to cover the student services front desk. (Not that they would find a way for me to attend these appointments without missing out on pay, which would cause WAY MORE problems than all 5 appointments could solve). In a state of shock and just wanting the meeting to end I just went along with what was said about her saying the least believable statements of "we care", which once again came off as uncaring and essentially verbal paperwork to cover her/the university if anything happened. I took the paper and just went back to work, upset but willing to just let it go. As time bared on, and shock wore off, it became more obvious how terrible that incident was. I decided to not call and set up any appointments because I did not want to waste my time on partial care and tell Nancy that they had been scheduled, which is wildly inappropriate. on 02/01 at about 2:00 pm Nnacy interrupted a happy office conversation to pull me into her office, both embarrassing me and plunging me into a discussion about how I had not scheduled an appointment. She then presented me with a form stating that I need to seek counseling else I would be terminated, referencing that it is 'policy' but she would not provide me with the university policy number. Not once in the previous meeting was it mentioned that the counseling was mandatory, or that my employment was contingent on it, more that it was an option that, under duress, she made me promise to take advantage of. I refused to sign the paper that would have had me comply or force me to resign and she told me I have until Monday to complete it. I have since emailed the HR Rep that Nancy was working with to set this situation up (lets call her Jill), about the university policy number and as of 3:58pm on 02/01/2019 she has confirmed there is no university policy stating that I need to seek mental health services in order to retain my employment. These incidents, as well as countless others, have taken a toll on my ability to work, as well as dissolved any comfort I experienced in the work place. I have a concern for retaliation against airing this grievance (which has been submitted to HR, and the office of Equity and Inclusion), and a conflict of interest has risen since this grievance is being processed by Jill. I also requested the VP of student affairs as the grievance officer and was assigned Nancy's boss, with whom she has been working with for years and does not even fully acknowledge me when she comes into the office so, I do not trust her to be fair and balanced in this resolution. This is not the first collection of incidents where Nancy has used her power to harass me, this is just the most egregious incident. In lieu of this incident, I have submitted several claims and reports through the university, but I don't think the system will process them in time. As I mentioned before this meeting happened at 2 pm on a friday, it took me a while to fill out all the paperwork while still completing job duties so the last one was submitted in full at 4:30 pm, 30 minutes before closing. Neither Nancy nor the paperwork mentions a timeline outside of 'Monday, February the 4th" as the timeline for termination. I am wondering if my side holds any water, legally. It feels like a huge violation of privacy to demand I seek treatment/evaluation at the risk of losing my job, especially since there was no inciting incident during work hour in the office. I have been told there are potential legal violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 based on presumptions and on the threat of the termination of my employment if I did not disclose personal and protected information such as medical records and psychological disability. Location Reference: The campus I work at is in Round Rock, Texas The university mostly operates out of the main campus in San Marcos. [link] [comments]  |
| Attempted Second degree murder? Posted: 02 Feb 2019 09:26 PM PST So me and my girlfriend were at a kids party and she started getting drunk, before the party I said I wanted her to give me a heads up if she was about to start drinking because In the past she always surprised me and just would pop up on me belligerent drunk and expect me to roll with taking care of her. So when she came back from chilling with her friends I was in the living room, and noticed she was tipsy, I was offended cuz she promised me she was gonna tell me if she decided to drink ( note: this happened a lot in the past which is why it was brought up for her to give me a heads up.) and I was offended I said I was leaving and she followed me out to my car ran up on me and started punching me, I got in my car and she got in too, she decided to leave with me and in the way home it was a kind of quiet ride until we were driving 60 on a back road and she's suddenly grabs the wheel and jerks it with all her strength and we fly off the road into somebody's front yard and almost run right into their living room (we were about 15 ft from running into trees) I was so shaken I literally got out of the car shocked and sat on the ground for like 20 mins while she never got out of the car. When I pulled it together a bit and drove home cuz I couldn't leave her stranded in the dark on a back road with no phone. I said wtf is wrong with you? And her response was "I was trying to kill us" What is this legally considered? It was so surreal I was shocked for like 2 days cuz she literally almost killed us and maybe innocent people in the house and had not a bit of remorse or realization of what she did.. TIA. Virginia, USA Edit: I broke up with her about 3 weeks ago, but she is.. pregnant, it's confirmed. She admitted to cheating on me and that the baby isn't possibly mine so now I'm in the twilight zone as to whether the baby is mine. I've cut off contact with her but she is slandering my name on social media and to everyone she comes in contact with and telling everyone I left her cuz she's pregnant, she left nasty voicemails at my job and I'm constantly running into people who are acting some type of way because of what she is going around saying and excluding all of the real reason I've left her. I told her not to speak to me until a dna test and if it proves the child is mine. If the child is mine I don't feel comfortable with her around a newborn or young one in general she's violent/explosive (to herself and others including her own parents) drug and alcohol prone and very immature, and I believe has and undiagnosed personality/emotional or mental disorder that her parents won't get her help for (she's been this way since she was small, I found out after dating her for 5mos) if the baby is mine, I want to go for full custody and am building a case for it, which is what brought me here. There have been a ton of instances that she's taken out of control similar to this one. I'm just mentioning this to get exact "label" for what happened. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 03 Feb 2019 08:03 AM PST So this money is allegedly going to be divided up between the bussers, cooks, and hosts. This was not a requirement til Feb 1. We get a new manager about a month ago and all of sudden we have to give him 3% cash, no receipt, on money I'm being taxed on. I don't know where this money is going. There is no transparency and I just feel like the owners and managers are pocketing the money. They tried to say it's a new company policy but the other franchises in town are not doing it. Also while I'm here, when I show up to my shift and clock on, they have me immediately clock out on break and then I will work the next 8-9 hours straight, no breaks, but I am not being paid any overtime. Please help! Thank you so much! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 03 Feb 2019 08:51 AM PST Hey LA, A few days ago, the main sprinkler system line in my building froze and burst, causing a catastrophic flood in my building (I cannot understate how much water there was pouring out of the ceilings. Ankle deep to shin deep in some of the units). The flood was from the third floor down, and I live on the fourth, so none of my belongings except for food when they turned the hydro off were affected. The fire department and the hydro company has determined that the building is completely unsafe and we had to evacuate. When they assessed the damage, they determined that the building will not be able to be occupied for at least a year. I will have to move out. The fire fighters could not get my cat (she has an anxiety disorder and flipped when they tried to get her) so she is still in my unit – I did get them to leave out extra food and water until I can be escorted in on Monday. The fire fighters were also pretty pissed because the emergency lights in the building were not working. I have been staying at my mother's for now, though there is something in place for tenants to get temporary shelter from this tragedy. The owner and the property management company are not arranging or paying for this, the city is. An issue that I am having that I will definitely correct in the future is that I did not have renter's insurance. The owner is refunding our first and last month's rent to get us back on our feet for first and last on another place, but that's all that I will be seeing from them. My rent was really cheap – the chances of me finding a place for what I was paying within a week in this location is pretty much zero. My city is having an issue with a lack of rentals for the number of rentees looking. This situation has left me without a home and needing to move immediately in the middle of a bitter winter. They are refusing to cover moving costs. In order to collect the first and last month's rent, I have to sign something stating that I will no longer be a tenant of and will no longer return to my apartment building. I WILL be reading over that document very carefully before signing. My question is, can they really do that? Not pay for my moving costs? Do I have any damages here, perhaps in small claims? I know that I don't have insurance personally, but I'm being uprooted in the middle of winter facing unexpected costs. My monthly expenses are going to skyrocket unexpectedly. I have to take time off work to pack, tour apartments, find a new place, and move in, basically within a week. When I talked to the property management, they said that the owner's insurance only covers the building, and nothing to do with the tenants. How can I get hold of this insurance policy? I've also been told to get hold of RIBO and get in touch with an ombudsman if possible, what can I expect from that process? Of course my hard copy of the lease is still in my locked-down unit and their "portal" online seems to be inaccessible right now to get the digital copy. I understand if some of these questions can be answered by looking at the lease, but even telling me that would be helpful for when I get my hands on it finally so I know what to look for. And to anyone reading this for funsies, if you are renting, get rental insurance. You might think, "oh, but my belongings aren't worth much" or "it won't happen to me" but hell. You can get your moving expenses, hotel stays, food replacement, pets kennelled, belongings insured, all covered. They'll fight your legal battles for you. All when you are dealing with the absolute chaos and emotional turmoil of losing your home. It's worth the $15 or whatever a month. Don't make my mistake. If I'm in the wrong here, please be kind. My father took his own life a week ago and his funeral was two days before this happened to me. I'm already facing a legal battle as his only beneficiary – his common-law girlfriend intends to take me for a ride for his estate. I am at maximum capacity. I just want to make sure that I'm not being wronged anymore than I already have been. I'm so overwhelmed by what's going on in my life. (Edit for grammar) [link] [comments]  |
| Stolen Super Bowl Tickets from Hotel Room Posted: 03 Feb 2019 11:24 AM PST Hi, Not me but family member... Two tickets stolen from a hotel room in Atlanta this morning. Beyond the traditional routes of escalating with the hotel, reporting to ATL police (surveillance footage, etc) - anything further that can be done? Will obviously contact the stadium and determine if they can stop whoever has possession of the tickets from getting in. Not expecting them to be able to get in but hoping justice can be served. And apologies if this isn't the appropriate forum to report this - just let me know the best place. Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 03 Feb 2019 11:01 AM PST Basically, our backyard abuts an elementary school (shared fence) that did a parking lot renovation a few years ago. Since this time, there is now a ditch from the parking lot that funnels directly into my back yard. The water run off has caused severe damage. Our foundation shifted, the concrete cracked, and our basement floods so often that it's basically unusable. The basement is almost 50% of our house's square footage so it's especially difficult. My husband and I have already spent tens of thousands of dollars trying to fix the foundation, but the continued water run off means that it'll continue to get worse. The school currently has a snow pile about 6 feet tall, melting into our yard, and I'm preparing to spend my day bailing out the basement again. With spring around the corner, I know it's going to get worse again. Do I have any legal standing here to get them to redirect their water run off? [link] [comments]  |
| Disability hearing, tomorrow, and Crohn's Disease. Posted: 03 Feb 2019 11:46 AM PST Living in South Florida. A short background first. I was diagnosed with Crohn's at the age of ten. Spent decades in misery, in and out of hospitals, multiple times a year. Numerous surgeries and procedures. I lost large chunks of my childhood, and ultimately my life, due to this disease. Eventually I was approved for disability. It was the greatest thing to occur. I finally had medical coverage, and if I missed some work or had to quit a job it wasn't the end of the world. I started receiving an infusion every six weeks, a very expensive procedure ($25,000 every six weeks.) For the first time in decades I was experiencing genuine long term relief. Years without hospitalizations, fewer episodes, and best of all, issues with peri-anal fistulas finally disappeared. Jump to a few years ago, now, I had to start fighting to keep my disability. Mind you, Crohn's is not curable, and I was finally able to treat it accordingly. Over two years I went back and forth, finally I lost my benefits and coverage. There were many issues on the state's end. I asked for a final appeal before a judge, years back. Suddenly this appeal appeared in their office after an entire year. After I'd already lost my benefits and all. No more infusions that helped. I'm also being asked to pay back $14,000.00 in overpayment because it was considered unnecessary. Now, tomorrow, I have the hearing before a judge. The best case scenario, I get my benefits back and work on getting my symptoms back under control. The fistulas resurfaced with a vengeance, I've been slowly declining since everything ended in May of last year. Second best case is, they don't afford me my benefits, but decide to waive the overpayment of fourteen grand. Worst case, I lose on both ends and have to maintain on failing health and pay back something I honestly can't afford. I don't know what to do. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 03 Feb 2019 06:53 AM PST For any of you reading and any advice coming, thank you. So I just got served with papers in Tennessee. I knew this was coming but not quite like this. I received my papers today and have some questions in lieu of getting advice from a lawyer as it's a small town and best I can hope for is Monday. After I have been served, is those papers how things have to be? She stated in the papers that I only get my kids every other weekend and i am not sure if that's how i have to do things now that it has been filed. She always agreed we would do 50/50 so to have just got into town but to not he able to see my kids is heartbreaking. Will that be the way things are until I see a judge to make those changes or can my lawyer attempt to negotiate before hand. She wants to move in with her boyfriend and that is unacceptable to me so I at least want to challenge her way. I was a fool who let her file as i trusted her and the things that she said. I am really only concerned about losing access to my kids...and I will be trying to get a lawyer asap but my heart is breaking. [link] [comments]  |
| Moved from FL to NY thinking our home would be ready but it wasnt even close to being ready. Posted: 03 Feb 2019 10:19 AM PST Ok so our jobs moved back to NY so us loving our jobs decided to follow. We talked to a rental property and had everything set up to move in on the 1st of Feb. We packed everything up and headed out on Wed. We arrived on the 1st after making sure the Utilities were turned on (couldn't move in w/o them) and come to findout the home wasnt ready. No appliances and the remodeling wasnt complete. So now we are in a hotel and are going to miss work untill we register our child in school ( need a lease for that). We just need to know if theres anything we can do because of our inconvenience. The rental company is a legit place our bosses rent from them. Thanks for any advice. Im trying to keep it together but its kinda hard. [link] [comments]  |
| Several people are effectively squatting in my apartment. How should I remove them. Posted: 03 Feb 2019 10:49 AM PST So, as a background, I live with two other people. They are baseball players for the university I'm a graduate student at. The two players are gone most of the time, but they let every other player (and I mean like 6 different people) live at our place at the same time without contributing to rent. What's more, my possessions have started going missing, they are constantly leaving the doors unlocked, cracking and not cleaning my dishes, and worst of all they let out my house cat who was my best friend because one of them is allergic. She's been missing for 10 days now, and I've spent nearly two thousand dollars on searching for her. They are up at all hours of the night and we constantly have Uber eats barging down our door. I live a waking hell and neither of them want to do anything about it. They refuse to speak now because they don't want to take any responsibility for my missing cat. I feel entitled to monetary compensation for the expenses of lost items, groceries, and cat search equipment, and emotional damage from running on 3 hours of sleep a night trying to balance graduate school and keeping the search for my cat alive. But at this point, I'd settle for forcibly removing them and making sure I never see them again. The thing is, because my roommates are the ones letting them in, I feel like I need to take legal action to remove them. Any precedent for something like this? How should I proceed. I'm in NC btw. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 03 Feb 2019 08:57 AM PST Not sure how much backstory you might need, but basically, my 21 year old autistic brother called me terrified that his horribly abusive father was finally going to kill him after an incident where his father intentionally sabotaged a family trip he was going to take with my sister to see our grandmother. He asked me if he could come live with me, and I asked him when. He said as soon as possible. So we planned, with my sister, a way to get him out without his father finding out, so none of us would get hurt or killed. Both of which we all knew was very likely if he found out what we were trying to do. We showed up down the street from his house after midnight when everyone was asleep, he walked to our car, and we took him from where he lived in Mississippi to my home in Louisiana. This morning when my stepfather (my brother and sister's father) found out, he called my sister and accused me of trying to steal my brother's disability which is in my stepfather's name. I didn't even know he was on disability until my sister mentioned it while we were planning how we would rescue my brother. My stepfather said that he was 'sole overseer' and he would get us for kidnapping, because he said my brother couldn't make his own decisions. My sister called and relayed this information to me immediately. I asked my brother if he had been to court for them to decide he couldn't make his own decisions and he said that he went when he was trying to get disability, and when he told them he had problems with math they told him he couldn't manage his own finances because of his math problems and that he had a 60 IQ. I know IQ is really arbitrary and stuff and labels are used to deny agency, but when we were little and he was tested for autism they said he was high-functioning with a 120 IQ. My questions are: 1) Can he charge me with kidnapping if my brother came up with the idea? My brother was legitimately terrified for his life. 2) Is there a way I can find out if he has guardianship? Overseer is not a term my Google results have offered any guidance about. I know my third question but I'm not sure if it's a legal one or not: What is my next step now that he is here? [link] [comments]  |
| Someone got a traffic violation in my name Posted: 03 Feb 2019 10:44 AM PST I haven't been home in months. I come home finally and begin checking my mail to see a letter from the DMV saying that my license will be suspended because I didn't appear in court. The fine had had my drivers license number but the name is incorrect. The first name on the violation is the feminine version of my name and the middle and last name are correct. I don't know if somebody used my information and made a new DL or what. I'm going to go to the court on Monday to see what I can do, I don't believe the dmv actually suspended my license because I just ran a check and it says my license is still valid, however there is a $200 balance for this violation I didn't commit! Proving that I haven't been home won't help my case, I've only been an hour away and I have been back in my home city several times I just never checked my mail. I know it's irresponsible. Summary - Someone got a ticket using my DL number. The first name is incorrect but the middle and last name are correct, DL number is correct. I live in California [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 03 Feb 2019 02:08 PM PST My father-in-law passed away last week. He had been in an out of the hospital for a few years and has massive medical debt. He "owned" his home, but was behind on his mortgage payments and might be close to foreclosure. He was legally separated from his wife so she is being told she cannot be the designated person in charge of his estate by the probate court. He has 3 daughters, I am married to his eldest. How quickly do we need to get everything out of his house in case of foreclosure? How quickly can they take the house? Does the court take control of his property to pay the debts? Any and all advice on how to advance with this would be greatly appreciated. Thank you [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 02 Feb 2019 02:01 PM PST Location CT. The renter who was arrested for threatening to kill my family (because I asked her to quiet down at 3am) has been served with eviction papers by the condo association. She rents, I own. The renter says "she has a team of Section 8 attorneys at her disposal" and "she's not going anywhere." She now claims the association is evicting her due to her race, and said she plans to sue the condo association, and me personally, for "racism." How? She's being evicted because she threatened to kill a child as retaliation for a noise complaint, and she was arrested for it, not because of her race. Does she really get a "free legal team" from Section 8 for housing court? Could this drag out for months? I just retained my own counsel, as victim in the renters criminal case, and for civil bullshit she filed against me. She filed a false restraining order against me, her victim, which I have to fight in court even though it will likely be tossed out. This may cost me a couple thousand in legal fees by the time we're done. Can I recoup any of this from her absentee investor landlord? She made it clear she's not done taking me to court. At her criminal arraignment yesterday for threatening, she also asked the judge where her "free section 8 attorney" was (her words, not mine). The judge told her to go down to the court appointed attorney's office (register for a public defender.) Will she also get a free attorney for the civil protection order case she filed (falsely) against me, or are public defenders just for criminal cases? Then my own amazing (and expensive, so I hesitate to call with every small question) attorney did research on all adults in her household, discovering the adult son who lives there is a convicted felon, a pedophile, under orders not to be around children. His victim was just 12 years old. Of course this has me shaken up as a mother. How did he get approved by Section 8? I thought the criminal background checks were strict? Do I have any recourse with Section 8 for this failing? The landlord? Thanks for any clarification you can give me. I've never had so much as a traffic ticket so this is all unfamiliar. Edit: Words [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 03 Feb 2019 12:05 PM PST I was driving my car with my friend in the passenger seat. We were at a turn signal and when the light turned green I had started driving then another car came and hit us. Long story short, it turned into a "he said she said" even though the other driver was driving on a suspended license and without insurance. My friend claims to have blacked out while not remembering anything so she did not act as a witness when I filed a claim to my insurance. I have full coverage. My car was totaled. Fast forward 6 months, my friends dad is suing me for $100K claiming emotional stress/trauma. He claims that she(my "friend") has been failing classes and has been on anti depressant medication due to the trauma from the accident and is suing me and my insurance. We are both college students and I know that she has always failed many classes in the past. In fact, she had failed 2 classes the semester before the auto accident. She also has claimed to have had depression for years even prior to this auto accident. Now she is stating that she is flunking and depressed solely due to this accident alone. What should I do? [link] [comments]  |
| [IN] No recorded easement on property Posted: 03 Feb 2019 07:30 AM PST We live in Indiana. Our house backs up to a greenspace which has 3 natural gas pipelines on the greenspace. The rearside of our property does not have ANY easements on record with the county recorders office, and the pipeline management company is claiming they have an easement on our property of roughly 25'. They have marked 3 very large 30+ year old trees for removal from my property, and dozens others on adjacent properties up and down our road. I found the secondary development plat for our neighborhood from when it was constructed in 1992, and this plat ALSO does not show any easements on our properties (the pipelines are very old, and were built decades prior to 1992). There are many elderly / retired couples in my neighborhood and it feels as if the pipeline company is terrorizing them by their actions. They forced one lady to remove a small picket fence she put in her back yard, and now they have marked several of her very small rose bushes near her house for removal. This is totally unnecessary. Apparently she had hired a lawyer to fight them about 1.5 years ago to try to save her fence from being removed, and she eventually gave up and caved since it was proving to be too stressful for her. Now they have returned and marked her small bushes for removal. They are set back at least 65' from the center-line of the pipeline.. What should be the first course of action here? I spoke with the president of our HOA and he said he has been battling them for years. He sounds defeated and doesn't know what else he can do to hold them off. Obviously if they illegally remove my trees I can fight for compensation after the fact... but I'd rather have the trees than anything else. Should the HOA hire legal representation for us? [link] [comments]  |
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