- Recently found out I am not the biological father of my 2 year old son. She is aware of this and threatens for me never see him again over any minor parenting disputes. Is there anything I can do? Also, first ever reddit post, very new to this.
- [Illinois] Girlfriends employer assigned a natural family planning training course in her online training requirements after having a miscarriage. Can anything be done about this?
- (MA) Almost arrested at Walmart for "stealing"...
- [OH] Fired wedding officiant is threatening us for our 1-star review
- Got the shit beat out of me by my dad
- Is it legal for my employer to withhold my commission because I missed a day for court & brought two notes to them ( the actual court date information and the time stamped note the court provided me with )
- I’m not the father
- Manager is asking for employees to fill out a form disclosing which coworkers they've slept with (NC)
- Does my school have publishing rights to my homework?
- Neighbor keeps flying drone above privacy fence, recording us during private moments..
- My roommate died in our apartment
- Can a private college add window stoppers to residential buildings, making it impossible for residents to open windows at any height that are directly in their bedrooms?
- Farmer landlord wants to use a helicopter to spray pesticides on the corn fields that surround our horse fields, our yard, our pond, and our house. Can we stop him?
- "Okay we can play that game" when confronted by a cop over an unmarked parking spot, what should I do?
- Employer docked exempt employee’s pay for jury service NYC
- [UT] Master bedroom door won't open or close without excessive force. Tennant deemed fire hazard, landlord won't fix.
- Employees rolling overtime hours to following weeks??
- Got arrested for heroin possession when I was 18. They never filed charges on me for it. I'm 23 and in college now, been clean for almost a year. Can I get the arrest expunged??
- Paying someone off with notarized paper.
- Landlord Changing Lease
- Someone is stealing my patterns, can I do something about that?
- My mother is planning to leave $20k in savings to my sister and I.
- In negotiations for a house in NY, there was a financial deal being made because the seller is having problems closing. I specifically gave my lawyer what I wanted but she ignored me, writing a contract that favored me less. She lost it when I called he out on it and refuses to present my offer.
- In California, a fruitless search warrant was executed upon my residence while I was not home. Need advice. ASAP if possible. Thank you
| Posted: 07 Aug 2019 03:10 AM PDT I live in the UK. Me and his mother haven't been together since before he was born as we broke up when she was pregnant. We agreed we didn't want to be with each other but wanted to do right by our son. However long story short, I did a peace of mind DNA test (private - not legally binding) found out he wasn't mine. However I want to just carry on raising him as i love him as if he were my own son and have been having every weekend since he was born and some days in the week. We have a very loving rather & son relationship and he calls me Daddy. However she is aware that I am not the biological father and the real father is not interested and is staying away. Here is the kicker, she seems to have it in her head that now I have a gf who also has a child, she kicks off all the time even though absolutely nothing with my son has changed, not the relationship with him, time spent with him, nothing. I have no idea why on earth she is so bitter towards me other than catching her out I guess. She has already said that my gf can never meet him as she doesn't like her (literally never met or spoken to her) if she does she will take me to court have my name taken off the certificate and bye bye. Is there absolute anything I can do to legally protect myself against this major abuse of power? Or to stay in his life do I just have to jump to her tune and do what she says for 18 years? Any help or feedback would be great, thanks. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 07 Aug 2019 09:43 AM PDT I don't think anything can be done about this, but I just wanted to be sure. My girlfriend of 8 years works at a Catholic hospital and the woman who oversees the entire hospital is a catholic nun. My girlfriend had to take time off work due to having complications with her pregnancy, eventually we lost our baby due to those complications. She also visited the emergency room twice while pregnant at this same hospital she works at, as it is where her primary care doctor is as well. Yesterday she received an email stating that she had a Natural Family Planning training assignment added to her training course. I feel like this is very inappropriate, she was the only one in her department to receive this training, and I feel like this is an over reach. Because this is also the hospital she received care at, I also am worried that the head of the hospital was some how able to get information on her medical records, though that's just a feeling I have. My question is, is the type of behavior allowed under the law? I feel like it's inappropriate for the lead of the hospital to be involved in her business like this, especially when the training she assigned talks about how you should only have sex when married and shouldn't use any form of contraceptive except NFP. Like I said, just because something is inappropriate doesn't mean it's illegal, so I wanted to get other opinions on it. Edit: the training course is mandatory, meaning she could be reprimanded for not completing it. Sorry if that was unclear. [link] [comments]  |
| (MA) Almost arrested at Walmart for "stealing"... Posted: 06 Aug 2019 07:00 PM PDT Last Friday night I had some shopping to do, so I headed down to the local Stuff & Things to pick up a bunch of Stuff, and Things. I spent about $200.00 at the store, and on my way out the door greeter/ security person came over to me to check my receipt and make sure I paid for the items that were not put in shopping bags. (This is not unusual) All was well and I went to leave the store. As I made my way towards the entryway, where they keep the carts and things, some young kid in a red shirt and a lanyard comes over to me and asks to check my cart. I was fairly oblivious and handed this person (he surprising did turn out to be the head of security) my receipt and mentioned how the other door person already checked my receipt. He told me they had different authority, and then without warning he started to rifle through my purchases. Unlike their typical security, which usually only checks items that have not been put inside shopping bags. Apparently, the young security guard had told the police that I had stolen rice and bug spray, and had attacked him, so the LEO's responded with due diligence. Eventually, after things had simmered down, and I was in handcuffs on the pavement, the officers listened to reason. I told them that if I had my receipt that I could show them that I did in fact purchase rice and bug spray, but could not produce my receipt bc the security person stole my receipt from me. They radioed back to the officers that were taking the security guards statement to find out if he had my receipt and he admitted he did. At this point things get weird. The officers told me that the security guard, was "barring me from all Walmarts nationwide" and that he wouldn't press charges. I said I wanted my receipt, bc I didn't steal anything and the proof was on the receipt. Well, they took the cuffs off of me and invited me to follow them back to Walmart to prove my truth. When I got there, the security guard hands one of the officers he had been talking to clipboard and that officer tells me to sign a document saying I will not go to any Walmart for a year. I refused to sign anything and demanded my receipt. After some delay they handed me my receipt and sure enough, the rice and bug spray I was accused of stealing was on there. One of the officers that had detained me rolled his eyes and said "Oh Jesus Christ!" shook his head and told the security guard I didn't have to sign the document, looked at me and said I could leave. As I went to leave the security guard told me to not return. I turned around to ask the officer if that was true and he told me it was a civil matter now. I walked out the door to hearing them yell at the guard for causing such a disturbance over nothing. Beyond the fact I have no idea why this guard got it in his head that I stole rice and bug spray. What the Hell just happened? Am I barred from Walmart? The officers did give him my license (I forgot to get it back from them when they took it from me after they pulled me over, and when we went back to Walmart they gave it to him to fill out the document I did not sign- bad move probably). I guess I'm asking if this is all on the up and up, b/c this entire situation feels pretty weird to me. Was it ok for this guy to accuse me of something that I didn't do, get me put in handcuffs, and then bar me from Walmart? And can some random petulant, lanyard wearing just exiting his teenage years, still has peach fuzz on his face, security guard come rifling thru my purchases? I always thought only LEO's were able to perform searches like that, and only then with a warrant. What gives? [link] [comments]  |
| [OH] Fired wedding officiant is threatening us for our 1-star review Posted: 07 Aug 2019 10:14 AM PDT We go on Thumbtack and search for a wedding officiant for this coming Saturday. We've been planning to wed for months but we decided to "just do it" this weekend. We wanted something small. It's actually been relatively less stress to do it this way and everything is coming together - except for the first wedding officiant we hired. It all started fine but the morning after we hired her and paid a deposit, she sent a rambling long email titled "confidential and emotional" to my fiancee, in which she reveals that she has doubts about me. She suggests that he is having doubts about following through with the service. The subtext seems to be that she wants to break us up because she doesn't believe in my motives for getting married! My fiancee is furious and says "I don't want this person to marry us". I mean that's all it takes in my book. Fiancee wants to write a nasty reply, I stop her and say "just try to get the script out of her since you both worked on that together and we've already paid a deposit anyway". I write a one star review:
She responds to the one star review with a long rambling list of accusations. It's literally 1000 word essay. It contains private information and accusations that we are fraudulent in our acquisition of a marriage license. I opened a ticket with Thumbtack about this, and I actually offered to just remove my review because its not worth the grief. Thumbtack insists that we leave it up "for the community's benefit". Okay cool but I ask them to remove her reply because its clearly inappropriate for a public review. They haven't done this yet. In the past few hours, the fired wedding officiant has been sending me written threats. She claims she is filing a libel suit against me, that she is using her license to petition the Secretary of State of Ohio to invalidate our marriage license, and various other nonsense. Its so rambling and long that I haven't invested the time to break it down into logical points. We're considering changing our venue, hiring security in case she shows up. We're wondering if we should go back to the Marriage Dept and ensure our license is sound. A judge inspected our application and validated it. Now we're concerned that there will be scrutiny or delay with our marriage certificate. I haven't engaged in any threats. I've just said please stop and if she keeps it up we'll ask the police to get involved. Do I really need to worry here? [link] [comments]  |
| Got the shit beat out of me by my dad Posted: 07 Aug 2019 08:34 AM PDT As the title suggests I got the living shit beat out of me by my abusive father, whenever we get into arguments (mostly about me moving out) he takes my car keys away so I can't leave the house, then blocks all my devices from using the internet so I can't text anybody about what's happening. This in particular happened when I got nose piercings (where he also stole my military ID) and he threatened to "rip the nose piercings out of my face" there have also been previous times where he's hit me, but nothing as severe as this time. He had tackled me to the ground and choked me out, then dragged me across two rooms and threw my head into a staircase corner and I might still be bleeding and probably have a concussion. (This was over 12 hours ago) I'm stiff throughout my whole body and my right eye is also still blurry. I can post pictures of the gash on my head if requested. I'm scared to do anything or move out because every time I mention moving out they threaten to take my college funds away, and I really want to go to school to become a teacher. They're extremely manipulative and controlling and J don't know what to do. He has also put a keylogger on my pc before without me knowing and has gone through my pc and messages and belongings and I don't know how many times. For all I know he could've even found my girlfriends fucking nudes man. I'm scared to press charges because I gave him a black eye in this incident when I punched in the face to defend myself, and I also put a fuckload of holes in the drywall. And I've forged his signature to get him off my bank account because my parents used to threaten to freeze my accounts so I couldn't move out and I used to work my ass off for money, sometimes going 70 hours a fucking week, and I wasn't going to let them take that from me. I also changed a check from my dad to get back the money that I had spent on the nose rings that he had threatened to rip out, because I had to take them out to get my shit back, and I also got sick of being called a fag for it. (He's also pretty emotionally abusive and insults me regularly). I believe he also tracks my phone because I get messages from verizon saying so, but he also denies this claim. I'm scared and don't know what to do, I believe I have legal justification for the things I did because I did them out of necessity because I'm scared in my household and want to escape, but I'm scared they'll press charges against me and fuck my life up. I don't even want my dad to go to jail, I literally just want the college funds that were saved up for me, and I want a restraining order so I can move out in peace. If anybody has any advice it would mean the world to me. Sorry my post was so jumbled up, I'm a bit of a wreck rn. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 07 Aug 2019 05:06 AM PDT I work at a large phone/cable company in the mobile department. We are not the corporate office but authorized retailers so some of the practices are slightly " shady " I make a base rate , get compensated for training ( I train new hires in the mobile department ) , commission for sales and tier bonuses for the amount of sales( 15 sales - 100 21 sales 150 26 sales 200 etc. etc ) My work took my commission this pay period & my tier bonus. Now I told them I had court , put a ticket in and called that day to remind them. I also gave them the ticket , the court papers I got in the mail and the note the court provided me with that day. They said it was an un excused absence & I should have made the day up. I worked everyday following my court date so it is impossible to make the day up. This company will take your commission for everything. Mine never gets taken because I'm a high producer , don't call off and I am rarely late. They also will take one sale per 10 minutes you are late. But is it legal for them to with hold my commission even though I provided documentation? My boss said the only " excused " absence was a medical emergency with a note. How can court not fall into excuses absences. They don't do vacation or PTO either so I couldn't have done that but they knew I wasn't coming in and didn't tell me my commission would be withheld. I'm in Ohio if that helps. Thank you !!! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 07 Aug 2019 06:12 AM PDT This is the first time I am posting so sorry if the story is a bit scrambled. Around a month ago I received a letter from the Child Protection Services, claiming that I am the father of a 4 month year old. For the past 2 years I have been in a committed relationship and have never cheated once on her. The child would of had to of been conceived around June of last year. During that time I was doing taking a full summer semester, since I am using the GI Bill and want to finish college as fast as possible. I can account for nearly every single weekend between May-August of what I was doing, whether it be with friends, family, or my girlfriend. I have pictures and receipts of everything I was doing, or it is on my debit card statement. This woman claiming that I am her child's father lives in the complete opposite side of the state than me. I have never once heard of this woman, nor do I even have a single friend who I have talked to about this who knows who she is. Tomorrow I am going in for genetic testing and had to take a day off of work since the closest place to me to take this test is nearly 2.5 hours away. After the test comes back negative I want this to be done and move on with my life. Even though my entire family knows that this is an outrageous accusation against me, they all know that I cannot be the child's father. After digging through Facebook we finally found a picture of the child, and even by looking at it you can tell that I can not be the father at all. I am as white as a piece of paper and this child is as dark as night. I've read stories that even after the results come back negative, the mother has still tried taking the alleged father to court and chase after him. I want this to be done with as soon as the test comes back that I am not the father. My family has also helped research this a bit to see how this is even possible. We have come up with a theory of how it happened. She went to try to get state benefits for herself and her child. When the state asked for income records of herself and the child's father she must not of known who the father truly was. She either blurted out a random name, or the fathers actual name which just so happens to match my name. She lives right on the boarder to a very large city in a different state, which is only 15 minutes away from her. I looked up my name in that city and found multiple men who fit the description a lot more than I do. CPS more than likely didn't look for my name out of state, and i was one of the very few in my state that matched this name. Without any actual knowledge they sent me the letter instead of the true father. My entire family, as well as my girlfriend, fully trust me and have had my back during all of this. I know 100% that it cannot be my child and want to know what I should do when the results come back negative. Is there anything legal I can do to ensure that this woman doesn't keep coming after me? I've read on other reddit posts similar to this that once the tests come back that she cannot do that much, but I have also seen that the mom is capable of taking you to court still. I want this done and over with as soon as I get the results back. I've also read that I can counter sue for emotional distress, as well as lost day of pay since I had to take a day off work for this test. More than anything I just want this over with and know that this woman cannot pursue me any more once the results come back. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 07 Aug 2019 06:48 AM PDT Hi all, asking for a friend here. This friend works at an upscale restaurant, and they have apparently had a problem with coworkers sleeping with each other and quitting because of the toxic environment it's allegedly created. Manager has decided her resolution would be to have each employee fill out a form disclosing who else on staff they've slept with (never mind she is married to someone that works there) She told my friend this form would "remain confidential" but also that sleeping with coworkers would make her respect you less, so... Is this legal to even ask for? I understand NC is a right to work state with weak employee protections, but this seems like an extreme violation of a right to privacy. Additional info is that they do have a "no at-work relationships" policy in their employee handbook, which I'm sure could affect the legality of this. Any info I could pass on would be helpful. Thank you! [link] [comments]  |
| Does my school have publishing rights to my homework? Posted: 07 Aug 2019 08:25 AM PDT I'm in Arkansas. So I took a literary magazine class at my community college this past spring. The aim of the class was to create a student-led literary magazine from scratch. All of the work put into the magazine was by us, students. The name of the magazine was a name that I myself came up with. We were never paid by the school to do this project - in fact, we paid the school for this class ourselves. The literary journal turned into a passion project over the summer. This is a non-profit journal with the singular goal of giving a voice to underrepresented creatives. I and another student finished the work over the summer and decided to publish the journal online. We put so much hard work into it. I even got a few "successful" writers who were kind enough to give a few of their original pieces to the journal. I am so proud of everything us students have done. Last week, we published the journal. A few days later, we were contacted by the school and asked to take it down. They said that the journal was College property and that they had to go through an approval process before we publish - thus setting back our publishing date for another few months. This journal was a group project in our class that was overseen by a professor. This was our homework for the class. This is what we were graded on. We were never paid by the school to do this journal. The project was never funded by the school. Besides English faculty, nobody else knew that this student project existed. Is it illegal to claim property over student homework? We never signed any type of contracts. We have been told that this is a "student-led journal" from the very beginning. If they do have the rights to that, that means they have the rights to every creative piece I've ever written for my professors. I designed the entire journal myself and we designed the entire website ourselves because we are passionate about the message of our journal and want to help other writers. If anybody has any advice please let me know. I wanna just say "this our class homework and we own the work" but I'm not sure if that's the case. If it was owned by the school, shouldn't we have been compensated for the school for technically working for them? Or at least signed an internship contract? Those things never happened. Thanks for your help [link] [comments]  |
| Neighbor keeps flying drone above privacy fence, recording us during private moments.. Posted: 07 Aug 2019 01:45 PM PDT I'm trying to figure out what the laws are in TX for drones in neighborhoods. Not long ago I was sick and went out into my backyard with my husband to get some fresh air. He went back inside and went to the bathroom. Due to being unwell, I suddenly needed the bathroom (we have 2) and went to rush inside, but my husband had locked the door out of habit and couldn't hear me banging on the door. Someone must've heard, because suddenly I heard a drone approaching. This camera-equipped drone flew over our fence and had the camera pointed at me for a good 5+ minutes while I desperately knocked on the door, doubled over, trying to get my husband's attention. It was pretty embarrassing, and I'm sure whichever neighbor owns it got a kick out of it (and who knows if they showed the video to anyone else). Since then, there have been numerous times when my husband has gone out for an early morning cigarette while wearing nothing but his underpants, only for the drone to fly up and stay pointed at him until he comes back inside. I'm agoraphobic and don't leave my house unless I'm with my husband. I bought a washing line just to give myself an excuse to get outside more, because I'm otherwise cooped up inside 24hrs a day, 5+ days a week. I've now stopped going out in my own yard for more than a couple of minutes in case this drone comes to record me. We have a 6ft privacy fence just so I could feel comfortable in my backyard, but that doesn't help with a drone. If this drone were to get [link] [comments]  |
| My roommate died in our apartment Posted: 06 Aug 2019 11:50 PM PDT I live in Chicago, IL, a few weeks ago I found my roommate dead in his room. Because of his state, a lot of clean up had to be done, including the replacement of all the carpeting in our apartment. Our lease was finalizing at the end of the month, but now our security deposits are in limbo and my landlord won't give me a straight answer about whether or not I'll be getting anything back. What are my options? Am I considered liable for this damage or can I contact them when it's appropriate to get my deposit back? Edit: location Update: to my misfortune, I don't have renters insurance. Dealing with the sudden and traumatic death of a friend/roommate wasn't something I thought to have on my radar. So... I guess as of right now I'll be hanging tight and waiting to hear from the landlords about what they're gonna try to take from me. But thanks for the advice, might try to find some legal help and see if there's anything I can do to avoid having to pay for any extra damages. Fingers crossed. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 07 Aug 2019 06:34 AM PDT Throwaway account because this has identifying locations. Location: Lake Forest, IL TLDR: My private college (the only college in Lake Forest) has sent out a student announcement that residential buildings with air conditioning will be installing window stoppers in two weeks to completely obstruct any opening of the window to prevent mold outbreaks. Previous actions to prevent mold include window stoppers to prevent openings after 2 inches. School says this is legal since residential halls only fall under commercial building codes. Is this actually legal? Though I do not live in these affected buildings for the upcoming year (and instead live in a building without air conditioning), I have lived in one this summer. The AC is dependent on the temperature outside, and only kicks on above a certain temperature. Likewise, the heating kicks on below a certain temperature. As such, we've experienced many times where the inside of the room was 85F, as a few rainy days would turn the heating on. These buildings have struggled with mold problems as a result. The school has a history of not actively removing mold until it becomes a legal problem and parents become involved. To prevent this, they installed window stoppers about a year and a half ago in all residential buildings with AC, which limited the window from being opened more than two inches. Despite this, obviously mold won't go away without it being professionally removed - something the school only did as a last resort. This led to the earlier email being sent. Without going into detail, the ability to open windows, that were installed in the actual bedrooms, seemed to be a legal right of residents. Right? According to the school, this is wrong. I sent an email asking if this was legal, citing Article 150.165 of the city of Lake Forest building code. This partial quote is taken directly from it: "(5) Every sleeping room shall have at least one operable window or exterior door approved for emergency egress or rescue. The units must be operable from the inside, opening without the use of tools." The residential office then responded with this email: "You may not have noticed that the section of code you're referring to falls under single-family dwelling and duplex-dwelling. It is not applicable to apartments or residence halls within the city of Lake Forest. Egress from a room in a residence hall is through the door, not the window. The City of Lake Forest's code does not cover this and instead it is covered by commercial building code and the Fire Prevention Code, which does not require egress from a window. Section 150.221 covers this in more detail." None of the rooms doors lead to outside, and instead lead to a hallway indoors. Some rooms, which are suite style rooms, have actual bedrooms leading to a shared middle room, which then lead to the hallway. Is this actually true? Do residential halls from private colleges actually count as commercial buildings, and thus are exempt from these codes? Thank you for any help. Note: I am not looking for a legal battle. My best shot at standing up for my legal and safety rights was by emailing and asking if it was legal. I just want to run it by others to see if this is true. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 07 Aug 2019 07:47 AM PDT (Also posted in the Canadian advice page but figured since this page is bigger I'd try here too) Hello there! First post in a legal advice sub so bear with me please! Our landlord let us know today that in the next few days he's having a helicopter spray the corn fields that surround our house. Obviously, this would be devastating for the area. We have two horses, who have two pastures to graze in. With a layer of poison covering them we won't be able to use them anymore. We also have a pond on the property which is a very lovely ecosystem for a lot of critters, which will also be ruined. Even our yard will be unusable for the dogs. I don't even know what's gonna happen to our water well or our hay that's stored in the barn. We've been living on this property for 5 years now, and in the last two years two of our horses have dropped dead for no apparent reason. Both too young, both of cancer. Not saying it's due to the landlord and his pesticides he's been spraying for years but I doubt it helped. We're calling the township at the moment attempting to get an idea of what we can do but it's gonna take too long, hence why I'm reaching out on reddit. If anyone had any insight I'd greatly appreciate it! Thank you! LOCATION: Ontario Canada [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 06 Aug 2019 09:31 PM PDT I've just moved into an apartment complex in North Carolina and everything has been going great besides the fact that there seems to be a power tripping cop living nearby. Just to give a little background: my apartment complex does not have assigned parking. You are free to park anywhere, as it says so in the lease. Just today I took a visit to the front office to lodge a complaint against the cop who always parks in front of my building as he took it upon himself to put a sticker on my windshield that had "DO NOT PARK IN THIS SPOT AGAIN" with not other information on it. So I spoke with management and the told me that they "would speak to him". Okay. Fast forward to tonight and I'm cleaning my windshield because I have this fucking sticker residue that STILL won't come off. My neighbor comes up to me (we were talking yesterday about the same police officer as she got an aggressive sticker on her car as well) and we start talking and I tell her about the sticker. Well lo and behold the cop comes out of his apartment building: "HEY, is this your car?!" "Yes it is" "You can't park here, this is my parking spot." "No it's not, there's no assigned parking here." "Yes there is for my car, I have to park here I'm a trooper and I run patrol around here" "I don't see any markings on this spot. Where's your name on this parking spot?" "I pay rent here. I keep watch (he said something to that effect) and I need to be able to park here. "I pay rent here and do you see my name marked on any of these spots??" "Okay you wanna do that, we can play that game." I proceed to start recording and I catch him saying the same thing again, "It's okay, we can play that game". And as I ask him to please explain himself, he walks away in the video. Also, my neighbor has a picture of her sticker that said something to the effect of "I don't want to see your ass parked here again." As of now I intend to make another complaint to the office as the situation seems to be escalating. Honestly it's starting to feel threatening especially with his comment and I want to report him for an apparent abuse of power, however I need some guidance on the best way to proceed. EDIT: A lot of you are saying that I should report this officer to state police along with the apartment complex office. I will be doing just that once I figure out WHO exactly this guy is. I guess I'll take a picture of his tag and show the state police the video of him being an ass to me as well as the front office. Hopefully this at least gives me a decent paper trail in case he does try to do something to me. I'll update if anything escalates or if there's a resolution, if anyone cares. Thank you! [link] [comments]  |
| Employer docked exempt employee’s pay for jury service NYC Posted: 07 Aug 2019 06:06 AM PDT My company has around 80 employees. We are a nonprofit. I am a salaried, exempt employee. I served nine days of jury service late June/early July. My employer docked my pay for those days. I can't pay my rent. From my understanding of the Fair Labor Standards Act, subsection 541.602 part (3): "(3) While an employer cannot make deductions from pay for absences of an exempt employee occasioned by jury duty, attendance as a witness or temporary military leave, the employer can offset any amounts received by an employee as jury fees, witness fees or military pay for a particular week against the salary due for that particular week without loss of the exemption." Would imply this docking of my pay is illegal. Am I right? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 07 Aug 2019 11:07 AM PDT I'm renting a townhouse from an independent landlord. Everything has been very cordial and easy up until this point. I mentioned that the master bedroom door doesn't open or close without me exerting all of my body weight and physical strength, and mentioned this a few days after we moved in around April of this year. The landlord hadn't come to look at or fix it until just last week. He said it was just the house settling and that repairing it would damage the frame so he wouldn't be able to do anything about it. He deemed it a nuisance, not a safety hazard, and suggested it was actually a good thing because "it would keep the kids out." I always sleep with mine and my children's doors closed after seeing the video of how quickly fire can spread. My children are also young and often come to sleep in my room with me. They even occupy the master bedroom if the dogs outside are being too loud during the summer. My landlord doesn't agree that it's a fire hazard because it's not an exterior facing door and doesn't want to fix it. Do I have any recourse? [link] [comments]  |
| Employees rolling overtime hours to following weeks?? Posted: 07 Aug 2019 07:48 AM PDT I'm currently working a job as a shift manager/maintenance-person/lifeguard/swim instructor at my local waterpark. This is my fourth year working here, and we have never been allowed to work overtime hours (which I'm fairly sure is okay) however, it is common practice to punish workers for working over 40 hours and to have the extra hours "rolled over" to the following week. There are a number of minors who work at the park, and I have heard tell that the "no hours over 40" rule is due to this. Unfortunately an equal, if not greater number of employees are adults. It is a seasonally open outdoor pool in Montana, funded in part by the city. What should I do? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 07 Aug 2019 08:24 AM PDT This is in Texas btw. I've had background checks for jobs and it's never popped up, but I really wanna get rid of it. I know when I get done with school I might have some serious background checks and I don't wanna risk anything. I got arrested, got bailed out that night, and paid a whole bunch of money for a lawyer, and they just never filed charges or did anything about it. Anyways thanks in advance for anyone who has any advice. [link] [comments]  |
| Paying someone off with notarized paper. Posted: 07 Aug 2019 07:50 AM PDT In Texas. Wife left the house. We aren't being messy. We still talk. We both agreed if I paid her $50k she'd let me keep the house. She's filing for the divorce. Can I just get a paper notarized stating that I will be giving her a cashiers check for $50k and that she will be removing her self from The loan and not fighting me for the house. (Mortgage company is letting me refinance on my own once divorce letter is sent in). She'll sign and get notarized as well. Once she files, the paper will be submitted with the Divorce Decree. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 07 Aug 2019 07:35 AM PDT So myself and a few roommates are moving into a new place in California. Our lease, which we already signed and payed our deposit, starts on September 5th. Yesterday I received the following email from the agent at the complex I've been working with: "Hi Everyone! I hope you all have been doing well! I just wanted to reach out because my manager caught an error in the rent prices when I initially sent the lease to you. It looks like the initial rent price of $2765 was for a move-in date of August 31st. Otherwise, if you would like to keep the move in date at September 5th, the price would change to $2872. I do apologize for the inconvenience and error that occurred for your move in. Please let me know what you would like to do so I can make the correct changes." Can I challenge this at all since we've already signed? Or are we out of luck? Edit: spelling. [link] [comments]  |
| Someone is stealing my patterns, can I do something about that? Posted: 07 Aug 2019 10:53 AM PDT I live in a third world shithole where pretty much anarchy rules. I asked around about copyright laws and people kinda laughed in my face. Apparently I have to add location, is Europe enough? The thief is from America (I think California but I'm not sure), no idea which laws apply in this situation. Here's the whole story. I do all sorts of cratfts, I don't have an online store yet cause we don't have paypal (which makes sales incredibly hard) but I take pics of my crafts and post them on social media. I gathered an ok following and make the occasional sale. I do a lot of crochet, there are 3 basic stitches that you can use, adjust and manipulate into infinity, so I'm not talking about crochet patterns. I'm talking about combinations of shapes and colors. For example, I post a picture of white blanket with lilac flowers and peach borders, this person makes a print of lilac flowers with peach border on a white background and sells it. I post a basic chevron scarf made from scraps, the combination of colors looks like a bad acid trip. This person makes a chevron print with the exact combination of colors in the exact same sequence. The most blatant act of thievery of them all, I made a hat with interchangeable yarn, this person is now selling illustrations of the exact same hat! I can't copyright a blanket or a hat I can only make once, I can't own shapes and colors. Still, can I do something about this, apart from public shaming? The person stealing from me is from the states and makes pretty penny from my creations. Another edit- She also started making stickers and pins and 99% of the designs are my original ideas. [link] [comments]  |
| My mother is planning to leave $20k in savings to my sister and I. Posted: 07 Aug 2019 09:54 AM PDT I live in Oregon. But I'm not 100% on the way she is going about it. She plans to leave $10,000 for each of us, but she wants us to just transfer all of her funds from her bank account to our own, and that be that. I do not know if there would be any legal implications that this would have, if any, whether it be tax or anything I'm just not sure. We currently live with her and are helping support the bills, we all live in an apartment and so there's no property distribution to be had, but she does own a car she wants to leave to me. Help please, I don't really know if this is the way to pass one's savings on, and also belongings and stuff too. Would a will be worth it for that amount of money? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 07 Aug 2019 01:56 AM PDT This is a situation where I want to back out if I couldn't get what I was asking for. It was not drastically different, but material enough I am hesitant to sign. the seller is a builder who has been playing games, misleading me a lot about why the deal cannot close. I take issue with the fact she did not present what I wanted to the other party and is pushing me to sign it as is. She is risking losing the deal by not following my wishes. Is this a normal situation that a client gets in with their lawyer? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 07 Aug 2019 08:13 AM PDT 5 days ago, our local LEO's conducted a search warrant at the residence of my spouse and myself. At the time of the search, only my wife had been home. After searching, the officers had apparently not found what they were looking for. (I might add that nothing was being concealed within the residence, nor would their have been reason to do so as we do not have such items in our possession in our home, nor anywhere else. My most concerning question here relates to the fact that, upon leaving the residence, the acting Detective left a phone number and instructions to have me call him in order to set up an 'appointment' for questioning (for whatever that means). My concerns: Is this common. Should I be worried that the Detective is attempting to make further contact with intention to arrest? To my knowledge I haven't done anything outside lawful boundaries. At this time I am becoming quite concerned that the intentions of the department regarding their request for an interview are not the same as they had presented to my wife. Per the warrant, they had been looking for items relating to the commission, or attempted future commissions of a felony concerning a firearm that I recently discovered has either been lost or stolen for (possibly years now). For context, the asked my spouse during the search of premises to look at the picture ID's/DL's of several people of which were not recognized. For brevity of this post I will stop here and answer any questions that may arise in order to glean more specific information. I am unfamiliar with this sort of process where my spouse had been told to have me contact the detective to set up this 'appointment' and am beginning to feel as if my freedom is possibly in jeopardy if I were to follow the order given by said detective. Thank any and all of you for any insight you are able to provide. If you do advise the default response of "get a lawyer", would you mind elaborating as to the other-than-obvious reasons for doing so? i.e. what paths await should I cooperate with the request for appt/interview, as well as the other than obvious reasons to 'lawyer up'. I am willing to cooperate so long as I can be certain that this interview is not a ploy to get me to incriminate myself for things I don't yet even understand. Again, any competent help is greatly appreciated. Thank you redditors Edit - per all of your no-nonsense responses: I just spoke with a highly regarded defense attorney in our area (referred to by friends and acquaintances). He's a pit bull. Advised me to ignore the request for this detective's 'interview' and that if I ever happened to be arrested that I should invoke my rights and call him immediately. THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR INPUT!. I AM HUMBLY GRATEFUL! [link] [comments]  |
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