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    December 29, 2019

    Legal Advice Valet "Joy-rode" my Corvette

    Valet "Joy-rode" my Corvette

    Posted: 29 Dec 2019 07:07 AM PST

    I have a newer Corvette that features Valet mode, which when activated, monitors through the performance data recorder, and closely monitors everything that happens in the car while locking the storage bin, infotainment, etc. As I got home i wanted to check what the valet did and to no surprise, was pushing the vehicle hard to the back parking lot and at one point, looks like he got it sideways a little when bringing the car to its spot. There is no damage done to the vehicle from what I have seen, but the road the valet has to take to bring the vehicle to its parking spot, he was clearly doing over double (64 topped in a 25.) Is there anything I can do about this? This is in Florida.

    Edit: Location

    Edit #2: My biggest "Legal" issue here is the fact that I have on recording of this gentleman doing over double the speed limit in my personal vehicle, which was on a public road since the parking compound is off-site. Yes, he didn't get pulled over thankfully, because i'm sure i would have a mess on my hands then. But the proof is there and that's why I'm posting this for help & ideas. Thank you

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    Must I divulge the reason that I am refusing active shooter training? WI

    Posted: 29 Dec 2019 07:45 AM PST

    Hello. I work at 2 jobs, a regular job in the government and a weekend job at a large retailer. Yesterday I was told at Large Interstate Retailer that I must take their active shooter training. I said I would not. I was then told to talk to security and was basically yelled at for about 8 minutes. I still refused, although I did say I have had similar training at my other job and have a background in LE, which LIR did not know.

    So throughout the day, I was sent to talk to various managers. At this point they want a "detailed excuse". I was also told that I will be meeting with HR today when I start. I assume I will be fired.

    I was involved in a shooting incident years ago, was injured, and diagnosed with PTSD about a year after. I do not wish to take this training because I am sure my brain will mark my job as a "dangerous place" and I will have continual anxiety while there. I also am completely unwilling to disclose any of this to my coworkers. I don't need to work at LIR, but I enjoy my coworkers, have become mostly desensitized to crowds and public spaces, and the continuous polite retail conversation is therapeutic to me.

    I feel that this would fall under HIPAA. Should I offer a generic doctor's excuse? Does this qualify as a medical issue that would require accommodation? I am exempt from this training at my government job and did not have to offer any documentation at all.

    Thank you for your advice

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    Neighbors tree cutting

    Posted: 29 Dec 2019 06:53 AM PST

    We left town for a long weekend and to our surprise, 2 of our 100 plus year old trees had been topped, leaving only two 40 ft trunks with no limbs. It looks like the trees were cut exactly along the property line. The roots and trunk are on our property and all the limbs crossed the property line. We were not consulted and have never met the owners. The trees now look ridiculous and their viability questionable without any foliage. Is this legal? Thanks so much in advance

    Edit: we live in MA

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    Old job fired a guy 10 years ago for child pornography on company computers, never reported him, now he’s committed assault on a child and been arrested. Do I report or has it been too long to matter?

    Posted: 29 Dec 2019 07:24 AM PST

    Hi, this story could be confusing so bear with me and I'll try to be clear.

    I worked at a medical center in Tennessee about 10 years ago. During that time, an employee was quietly fired. I later found out from a friend in IT that this employee was engaging in online child pornography. The company did NOT report this to police, instead, they deleted his browser history and just moved on. I was naive at the time I suppose, but now realize they never should have covered this up for him. I believe they were afraid of bad publicity.

    Flash forward to today, when I see he's been arrested for sexual abuse of a ten year old girl. He put photos and vids of her on a foreign site where they were viewed over a million times.

    I'm pretty angry that this possibly could have been avoided had he been reported ten years ago for what he did at work. I can't believe they covered this up for him.

    Homeland Security is investigating along with local Police.

    All of this to ask, should I report what happened ten years ago at my old job concerning this guy? Or has too much time passed? Is the info I have relevant?

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    Neighbors cut down two very large trees in our backyard without our permission

    Posted: 28 Dec 2019 02:53 PM PST

    Update: located in Cincinnati, OH. Live in a single family home.

    Just got back home from a week long Christmas vacation and were shocked to find two very large, very old trees cut down in our backyard (probably 50 year old trees). The trees provide shade and privacy in our backyard, and now there's a huge hole and a giant pile of lumber against our back fence.

    There's a tree removal truck in our next door neighbors yard, so it's obviously their doing. They did not ask us for permission, and they had to trespass in our backyard in order to cut the trees down. What should we do? We tried to knock on their door and get an explanation but they weren't home. We left a note to contact us ASAP. We've never met them before so we don't know their names.

    For more background, the trees were not hanging over the fence into their yard. We weren't really maintaining the two trees but we never heard any complaints. The neighbors live in a million dollar mansion and we live in a normal starter home, so I don't know if they just didn't like the view or what.

    Should we go to the police to file a report? Or go to small claims court? Do we need a lawyer?

    Edit: Thank you all so much for your advice! My husband and I are first time homeowners so this is all new to us. We are going to spend all day taking pictures and documenting the original size of the trees. We are also going to confirm the property lines and have an arborist come check out the tree. I'll post an update here once we figure out what's going on. Someone posted that perhaps the trees were damaged while we were gone, so we'll try to get to the bottom of it. Again, thanks everyone for your help!

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    (California) I've been arrested for having my prescription medication outside of their bottles.

    Posted: 28 Dec 2019 11:49 PM PST

    I was driving home from work two days ago when I was pulled over for having a bad tail light, which I didn't notice and was hoping for just a warning, at worst ticket. I was super tired and I guess the officer thinks tired = under the influence, because he asked me to step out and said he suspected I was DUI (he thought I was on meth because he said my eyes "looked like it". I performed the sobriety tests and another officer searched my vehicle. I passed the sobriety test but then the other officer came out of my car with a box, which was my box where I keep my medication (Xanax being the main one). They said I had controlled substances and asked if I had a prescription. I said I did but I didn't have it on me, and then they arrested me for improper handling of my medication ("controlled substances") and intent to distribute! I managed to get bailed out thankfully but now I have a court appearance in a week for a preliminary hearing, and I'm facing both felony charges for intent to distribute and misdemeanor charges for the meds. I have all the paperwork and documentation to prove they are mine, I even told the cops I can get them in my apartment but nope, was arrested.

    I talked to a lawyer who said the intent to distribute would likely be dropped, but I would still be facing misdemeanor charges for possession. He said I'd likely have to do a plea deal to drop the felony charges and that I'll likely face some time in county jail and probation and a narcotics program. This is ridiculous! I can prove they are my meds, so I'm going to do that at my court appearance. What should I do in the meantime, is there anything I can do? Or am I just screwed?

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    RN Required to be on call and on an App 48 hrs straight, not overtime. Little sleep, feels dangerous. Indiana USA

    Posted: 29 Dec 2019 05:42 AM PST

    I work as an RN "on call" in a pseudo hospital in patient setting near Chicago (but in Indiana). I am on call for 48 hours straight. No overtime. I am paid a flat fee per day, regardless of hours worked. Some days it's 1 hour a day. Some days its 18 hours. Typically work is during the day, but often its overnight too.

    My issue is it's not typical "on call" with a pager or cell phone. My employer uses an app which requires me to be "plugged in" and responsive all 48 hrs. Including all night. Which is super dangerous to my patients because it makes sleep impossible. I take call from home and have a normal amount of time to report on site.

    My question is regarding legality and pay for on call work. I have attached Indiana on call info but I am confused about the fact we don't use the phone or pager, we use an app. So it's not like I am chilling the whole time I am home. I am working much of it.

    Is is correct that I should not get overtime? My confused circles around home engagement when I "should" be able to do normal daily activities etc.

    on call - IN

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    Got into a quick fight with a drunken man. I believe It was self defense but I was arrested anyway and the other guy got away.

    Posted: 29 Dec 2019 06:20 AM PST

    I am a 21 year old male who just started recently going to bars in my city as my birthday just recently passed. At around 3AM when all the bars were closing I was standing on the corner with my girlfriend waiting on the uber to go home. A man about 25 years old walks up was obviously extremely intoxicated. He started ranting about trumps America and said racial slurs towards my Brazilian girl, and then started sexually grabbing her then pushed her. I pushed him away immediately and then he spit on my girlfriend and then swung on me (but he was very drunk so luckily it didn't hit). Just as instinct I swung back hitting him in the mouth and once more in the eye and then stood my ground as he walked away. I didn't chase him, didn't hit him or kick him when he was or down, and didn't do anything extremely violent in my eyes.

    I did not think anything of it, as he was slightly bleeding but he was fine and I was quite literally untouched. As he's walking away still talking trash the cops put me on the floor and tackle me. They didn't even try to chase him and he was far but not uncatchable. I had no priors not even a speeding ticket and they booked me for assault and battery.

    Any chance I can beat this case? And will they ever try to charge the guy who got away or is he just getting off free even though he was the aggressor?

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    Cutting off toxic family; do I have to send a message or tell them?

    Posted: 29 Dec 2019 06:24 AM PST

    Hello! I'm in KY, and I'm trying to cut off my toxic and abusive family. I know they're likely going to try and file a missing person's report.

    I was wondering if I had to send them a text (preferred method if so) telling them "I'm cutting contact with you. I'm not a missing person." before doing so?

    Thanks for any advice/help.

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    Inherited a holiday home with 2 other siblings, they are uninterested in maintaining the property, want to start wedding venue business to help pay for maintainance, do I need their permission and are they entitled to profit generated?

    Posted: 29 Dec 2019 07:39 AM PST

    I inherited a property with my two other siblings, the split is 70% my ownership and my siblings have the remaining 15% each.

    They are completely uninterested in helping to pay for upkeep and I've paid a considerable amount of money over the years on basic things like the roof, electrics and plumbing without any financial assistance from them.

    The property now needs an extensive restoration to ensure its survival and I was thinking about opening the place up for weddings etc to pay for this.

    My question is: what entitlement do my siblings have to profits generated if the property is run as a business. I don't intend to take any profit myself from this but I'm worried they will demand their "share" (15%) and with 30% taken out of profits it will be very difficult to pay for the maintenance the house needs.

    Also do I need to ask their permission to start a business if I am the majority shareholder?

    The house is in Italy but I'm interested in anybody that has faced something similar anywhere in the world :)

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    It has taken it has taken almost 9 years for my husband to adopt my duaghter

    Posted: 29 Dec 2019 06:48 AM PST

    Ok, so I got divorced from my ex husband and after fell in love, got married to my husband. Ex was a meth addict and would only want to see daughter when he thought he could use it to control me. The last time ex was supposed to see her, he showed up tweaked and I wouldn't let him take her. We found a family lawyer to start the process of taking ex's rights and also have my husband adopt daughter. We started the process in probably late 2011, early 2012. Lawyer said the first part, taking his rights away, may be a longer battle because ex would keep digging his heels on and the get arrested or disappear, then show back up and dig heels again. Finally in 2015, we had a court date. Ex shows up at court and straight up tells the judge he will sign over his rights, he cant be a good father blah blah blah. The judge makes sure he understands that he said he is willing to give up his rights. He says yes. He was supposed to stay and sign paperwork, but as soon as we're dismissed he disappears. Lawyer tells us the adoption part now should be quick and easy, he gave up his rights, it's documented, no problem. Before the court date, everytime we had to try to figure out where he was to serve him or get in touch with, I had to be the one to find him. I found out everytime he got arrested, what addresses were listed, even reached out to the baby mama that he had currently. In fact, through this while process, I've been the one to find where he is, his probation information, and now currently, where he has been an inmate in for almost 2 years.

    About, 3 years, maybe closer to 4, we had noticed that we hasnt received any statements from the lawyer. We were always paying in advance, to try to make sure that we didn't get behind. Wed been in contact with them, via email, phone, and they never mentioned anything. We always updated them with our numbers or addresses if they changed, but out emails always stayed the same. I felt like it was taking much longer than it should have, but the lawyer or his paralegal would always say they were waiting on the courts or whatever. I didn't know enough legal processes to question to much, I didn't even know what to ask or where to begin. So finally one day, we grab the mail and see something from our law office.. saying the were behind about $1000 behind! What!? We kept all our receipts and correspondence with them. We hadn't gotten ANYTHING. And we notice that it had our old address listed on it. The envelop was to our current residence but the "bill" was our old one. And while even at our old one, we hadnt received anything for a month or 2 before we moved. So we're like, WTF? We call up our lawyer and set up a meeting. He smooth talked, we had a glitch in the system and the address never transferred over, it was our fault, and since this has taken so long I'm going to balance out your account and I won't charge you anymore. This has taken too long, we will get it done soon, we're almost there. My husband, who is logical and tends to be able to separate his emotions was like, cool, that's a fair deal you say it's almost done we will trust you. At this point I'm incredibly weary. I'm the one doing all the footwork, I'm the one who has had to deal with my drug addict, abusive, and manipulative ex, just for the lawyer to tell me ok we need more or we need this or whatever. Isn't that supposed to be the paralegal job?

    At this point he had a new paralegal who seemed ok. Things are still moving snails pace backwards slow. I've lost some of my fire and since hes no longer charging us, I'm trying to, I guess, give some leeway. Hes an older lawyer, it's a small office, im sure he has probably some other urgent cases. One night, last year, at freaking like 1230 in the morning, I get a call from his paralegal at the time. Shes drunk and crying but she gives me some interesting information. She says my lawyer had taken our case and had never done an adoption case before. He had no clue what he was doing, and he wasn't even trying to get it done. He would push it off to the side, he just didn't care. She said we had a right to view our entire case file, and we should report him to the bar association. She said she would bug him to get this done, and he would yell at her and would just never work it. He hadnt filed anything, he literally had done nothing. I told my husband and we mulled it over. Yes she was drunk and rambling, but it kind if made sense. We started researching step parent adoptions in our state. We found out that in a situation like ours, once my ex had relinquished his rights, it was maybe a 3-6 month process, and about 200 bucks. We've spent THOUSANDS on this lawyer. Still, though I wanted to go storming in and demand answers and a resolution, my husband says let's stay calm and just call, nudge him, see what we can find out.

    Nothing happens. Finally a few months later, I'm done. I call my husband and we show up at the lawyers office out of the blue, he has a new paralegal, and I demand to see my entire case file. We look through it, it's a big folder, with the same maybe, 20 documents in there over and over. I mean, just copies of the same things over and over.

    We make an appointment to.meet with the lawyer and he gives a bunch of bull, the courts messed up, we still need to contact my ex, it was filed to the wrong court division. This was, oh, 5 months ago?

    So we have been working with this slimy lawyer for the adoption for 9 years. We started calling about once a week for updates. He never answered, or his office girl would tell us hes with a client hes not in, whatever. I finally blow up one day and tell her that he needs to get it done, or I will find a way to report him to the bar. I didn't even know if I could but I was mad. So then things start to seem to get done, kind of. She tried to get whatever needed to be done, done. He tried to say we needed to contact my ex again! I said no, hes given up his rights, it's documented from the court date and in messaged between him and I where he agreed. They drop that. Then they say my daughter will have to go to counseling for the adoption. We fight that. No, she doesnt know my ex from a hole in the wall, my husband is her dad. She calls him Daddy. Hes the only dad shes ever known. They drop that. So we view the documents, everything looks good, all they have to do it file it. All the lawyer has to do is take it to the court and file it. That was it. We didn't hear anything for a couple weeks, we start calling again. Is it filed? No. Is it filed? No. Finally I call, the girl answers she had just talked to my husband, I said he told me it wasnt filed, I said, can you tell me why? This is ridiculous? She says he just hasnt taken it, he has to take it in person. I'm like he needs to DO IT. Then about 2 weeks ago, she tells us it's filled. He took it. So apparently now we are just waiting on the court date for a judge to basically sign the adoption.

    I believe this lawyer mislead and stole from us. He advertised and said he could do this and that it wouldn't take more than, maybe a couple years. It has taken NINE. What can I do? Is there even anything I CAN do? I really feel like this lawyer did us wrong? Please tell me theres something I can do.

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    My bank branch lost my wife’s social security card. What should I do?

    Posted: 29 Dec 2019 06:21 AM PST

    My wife and I went to the bank (a branch in NY of a large national bank) the other day to open a new account, among other things. We brought her social security card because we just got married and that is the only legal document we have with her current legal name on it. The bank branch employee went to the back to scan two documents: her passport and our marriage license. For some reason, he picked up the social security card, put it in one of the pages of her passport, and took it to the back as well. We didn't stop him, assuming he knew what he was doing. When he returned, he only gave us the passport and the marriage license. We asked him for the social security card, and he said it must still be in the back. Maybe 20 minutes later, after we finished signing things, he went to the back to look for it. It was nowhere to be found. The rest of the branch staff spent the next hour or so looking for it with no success.

    The bank filed a privacy incident with their (I believe third party) security company. We're still waiting for video surveillance footage to see if he dropped it in the lobby where someone might have picked it up. We have a copy of the report where the bank employee made it very clear that the card was under his possession at the time it went missing. We've also filed a police report. What should we be doing to make sure the bank remains liable for their mistake and fulfills their legal obligations (if any) to protect her identity?

    As an added complexity, this will likely cost us a lot of money. We just moved to this state (NY), and my wife needs that card to get a new state ID with her name on it. She plans to go to medical school here, so this delay will affect her in state status in two years.

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    Homeowner insurance threatening not to cover our claim unless we produce items we were instructed we could throw away. Advice needed

    Posted: 29 Dec 2019 09:01 AM PST

    In the state of Georgia. Top 5 insurance company. Homeowner claim is for significant water damage (pipe break, not a flood). Claim was filed mid-2019.

    Long story short, our claim has been a nightmare since day 1. Our first adjuster did basically nothing for 5 weeks despite many emails and calls from me and my husband to the adjuster, to his manager, and to the main line for our insurance company. He came by to the property almost 2 weeks after the claim date to assess the damage and reassured us that as long as we document ownership with pictures, we can begin to discard our items/furniture/stuff if it is non-salvageable. No specification of what "salvageable" and we were told to use our best judgment (verbally....sadly none of this was in writing), but kept a lot of our damaged valuable stuff anyway because we were wary to discard items before guaranteed reimbursement. After 5 weeks of doing nothing, he produced a skeleton of an estimate riddled with mistakes, and he was fired from the company. We were reassigned to another adjuster who came by the property and, again, saw the pile of furniture, electronics, and stuff in our living room and told us it was OK to discard as long as we had documentation. Again, nobody defined what "salvageable" meant, just that we should make attempts to save as much as we could, which we did (e.g. we have receipts of our rugs getting cleaned, so it's not like we just tossed everything we owned)

    Our second adjuster dropped our case for a personal family issue, and now 5 months after our claim date, we have a third adjuster. This adjuster's manager (the same manager from adjuster 2) is asking us to produce the repair assessments for our furniture and electronics....we wrote a detailed e-mail describing the many times we called the main line in the first 2-3 months of our claim when our adjusters were not responsive via phone or e-mail, how we called the manager himself, and how there were many, many opportunities for our insurance to instruct us to take things for repair but did not. We are not furniture/electronics experts...how could we know my laptop sitting in an inch of water or my swollen antique is repairable? (for context, I was aware rugs could get professionally cleaned, which I immediately did...but I assumed a water-logged antique side table was pretty much a complete loss of its value) We did as instructed and went beyond what I think is reasonably expected to get full and clear instructions. Now the rules have seemingly changed and we got a letter saying if we don't produce the repair assessments for items we discarded months ago, they may deny coverage to all or part of our claim. They even quoted a portion of our insurance policy in that letter, however nowhere in our policy is it stated that we are expected to take our items for repair assessment. NOTE: there is nothing in writing/e-mail that says we can discard our items, but we were told this verbally by multiple people...there is also nothing in writing saying we are expected to take things for repair, etc.

    We're ready to hire a lawyer because this is, to us, clear mismanagement of our claim. We are VERY scared to start down the path of a legal battle (not to mention the added financial burden) and would like to just get the money we deserve for the items we were instructed to discard, especially when our insurance company dropped the ball multiple times. Please Reddit, any advice is greatly appreciated.

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    (Missouri) Can I file for bankruptcy if all qualifying debt is in my name without my spouse's approval?

    Posted: 29 Dec 2019 10:09 AM PST

    My wife and I dont live together. Between two cars and credit cards we have about 30k in debt. I've exhausted all other avenues to pay off the debt and still cannot make ends meet. My wife is extremely controlling and won't "allow" me to pull the trigger on anything major that can turn our financial situation around. I was debt free with an 800+ credit score before we got married. So, I would like to file for bankruptcy and clear my debt, take the hit, divorce her ass and start rebuilding my empire the right way. I've already taken a 300+ point hit to my credit after shortsaling a home earlier this year and both credit cards are already charged off waiting for me to either settle or pay in full. Thank you for the advice. Also we have three small children and she doesn't work right now due to medical issues.

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    Non-liability

    Posted: 29 Dec 2019 06:50 AM PST

    I'm wanting to sign a lease on an apartment in the state of Missouri, but one clause of the lease has me pretty spooked. It basically says I won't hold the leasor liable for any damages or injury, even if the leasor is allegedly negligent. Let's say the roof is infested with termites, collapses and injures me, and the leasor knew of the infestation and that it could or would cause a collapse. How would the non-liability clause hold up in court?

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    Mother passed away with debt, canada

    Posted: 29 Dec 2019 07:17 AM PST

    Long story short. My mom passed away on the 20th of dec and I'm still working through her affairs. She rented and no car. When looking at the bank she has about 6000$ in line of credit owning and 900$ in credit card owning. Only money in the account is under 3000$. Me and her had a joint bank account but the line of credit and credit card were her name only. I am executive of the estate. When i went to the bank they said that since I'm joint the money and account is mine. But theres still the line of credit matter. If it becomes an estate account then they can collect what is owed. But in canada they cant come after me for her debt. Question being should I take the money out now while it's my account or leave it and be left with nothing.

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    What are my rights as a sibling?

    Posted: 28 Dec 2019 08:22 PM PST

    I'm 22F, and I have two half brothers (3&5 yrs old) that are in foster care in the state of CT. I work for my own living, have a place with my partner, I'm in grad school for elementary art education, and have a BFA from a prestigious university as well as spending lots of time working with kids.

    My mom (45F) lost them to foster care in about September after having an open DCF case for over two years. She lost them because of neglect (was the same when I was a kid), she was dating a felon who wears an ankle tracker and let him live in our house against CPS and then lied about it, and was accused of using/selling drugs (pills, psychedelics, opiates) and has a problem with alcohol. She has never been admitted to rehab, she's extremely manipulative and has supposedly had psych evaluations required by the state, but she says she passed and I'm not sure if I believe her (she has a history of lying). I also believe she is mentally unfit to parent, she has extreme paranoia, a compulsive lying problem, forgets her own stories, and I believe she does not even have a grasp on what is reality and what she does in her head.

    Despite my brothers being in a foster home that is a million times better than at home, she is somehow still dictating how often I'm able to see/communicate with them. I was told that I was not a safety concern and therefore I had full access to them. A few weeks later, I was told that my mom was now demanding that my visits be supervised and limited to only one hour a week, however I live in Boston so I am only able to visit once in a while, so one hour is nothing since I'd been previously able to take them for a few hours to my partners parents house and then bring them back.

    For Christmas, I purchased them each an old model iPad, set it up with a bunch of educational games, kids YouTube, and put in my and my partners contact info so they could call us. I found out today that my mom took the ipads away and deleted everything of my info from them on her last visit.

    As a sibling, what are my rights as far as communicating from afar? What steps should I take?

    The case worker is extremely dodgy, never returns my phone calls or texts, presumably because my mom told her not to. However, as a stable and responsible adult in their lives, I don't feel my access to them should be limited.

    I have not communicated with my mom since October- her number is blocked though I'm sure she has tried to text me and yell at me.

    Any/all advice is welcome. I'm thinking of getting a lawyer, but my time and budget is tight while I'm in school. Thank you in advance!

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    US Army/ DFAS threatening collections on Education Benefit I shouldn't need to pay back...Getting nowhere

    Posted: 29 Dec 2019 05:07 AM PST

    I'm separated over 4 years (technically had 2 years IRR on my contract, so 2?). All of my Education benefits were approved and followed through. The only thing I can fathom is an MBA I was going to work on through my mobilization in 2012. But the college never got their stuff together and I never received text books; then only checked on me about 3 weeks in and upon discovering no one set me up for success, we canceled the whole thing.

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    Regardless, I called DFAS when I received the letter (letter in my hand from my mailbox the 19th and my phone call first thing the morning of the 20th). They're insisting this is the 3rd letter they sent and it's going to go to collections (almost $2400). However, they couldn't tell me anything about what it's for. Why would I pay something that I don't believe I owe, especially if someone cannot produce proof that I owe it???

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    So, I called my local education office and asked them. This was also on the 20th. Conveniently, their system was down and they can't tell me what it's about--but suggested that it went to DFAS because they had an old address. True, I moved. No one ever tried calling me, or attempted contact any other way. Regardless, again, no way to know why I'm being asked to pay back a debt I do not believe I owe. I was told I'd get a call back later that day when the system was up. I did not.

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    I called back Monday, the 23rd and left a voicemail ( no answer--it's the holidays, so I don't know what I was expecting). Nothing.

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    According to my initial conversation with DFAS, I was told that if I didn't make my payment, in full, by the 6th of January, the debt would be forwarded to collections and this would hit all 3 of my credit bureaus. Needless to say, I don't have the luxury of $2400 lying around. And I'm not sure what else to do at this point... who else to contact or how to make it go away.

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    My instinct is to send a letter to the address they gave me to reconcile the amount, and send a copy to the education office basically with a testament of me saying "I don't agree that I owe you anything, and you haven't provided proof that I do, so let's figure this out and in the meantime agree that I'm not handing over any money." If there's one thing I know about our lovely government, if this is in error and I give them a dollar, I will never see it again.

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    Thanks for any insight you might provide...

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    Edit: TO be clear, I'm not trying to get out of anything here. My frustration is driven by the fact that DFAS, nor my local education office can actually provide me any information with respect to what I supposedly owe them for. When I left service, I had done so with the understanding that I was free and clear. Here we are years later and I get this surprise letter, with no explanation and should just pay some money on blind faith that this is not some sort of error? All of the above and everything posited within the context of responding to you kind folk are simply different avenues by which this *might* make sense (like, I owe for my MBA that I never started). I'm digging through my paperwork this afternoon to see if I can find the stuff for the MBA I never did take and will work from there, but honestly, it'd be a lot easier to perform due diligence on my end if I had insight as to *what exactly* I'm being charged for...

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    Trailer destroyed due to recalled oven

    Posted: 29 Dec 2019 08:55 AM PST

    We recently had a trailer fire burn down our entire trailer and we found out it started in the oven area. The dealer sold us this trailer without informing us of the recalled oven and we were literally within minutes of everyone dying. What can we do to get our money back. What grounds can we use. Anything we can do legally.

    Edit: we were denied insurance of the property and trailer due to the house not being finished and the trailer being in a hurricane/flood zone.

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    Using someone’s likeness in a doll?

    Posted: 29 Dec 2019 09:02 AM PST

    (mobile, so sorry for formatting) I'm trying to start a doll company and I'm wondering if I can legally use somebody's likeness without asking permission. I've searched the internet for this but I can't find anything that will help me because the people whose likenesses I would use... are long deceased. I'm sure this doesn't matter since it would be an online company, but I'm located in Massachusetts. My main question is really if it's okay to just use it without permission, and if not, who should I ask?

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    Bank let my $8,000 CD get escheated and wants me to put up another in its place

    Posted: 28 Dec 2019 05:44 PM PST

    ~11 years ago I got a mortgage for a 140k house just before the housing market crashed, at the height of sub prime loans and all that. I had little credit history and a condition of my loan was that I put up an $8,000 CD as collateral. The same financial institution has both my mortgage and 8k CD.

    About 8 years ago I drew off the interest on my CD to pay for some home repairs, with the bank's permission.

    Last week I was looking at doing some more home repairs and thought I'd check in with the bank about drawing off the interest again thinking I would have a bit more interest on it now.

    The loan officer types for a minute on his computer, then says 'Huh... it looks like 3 months ago your CD was escheated to the government for being abandoned property'. Then he says I should have received something in the mail to sign at some point before, like a renewal, and that I didn't sign it and therefore the CD was escheated.

    Then he tells me that because the 8k CD was collateral, it needs to be replaced or I might not get my loan renewed.

    Where do I go from here? I checked the website for unclaimed property but the loan officer said it will probably take a few months before it even shows up in the systems.

    Can anyone tell me what exactly is going on here? It sounds like the blame is on me, but I open anything that doesn't look like junk mail and don't remember ever receiving something like that the loan officer was talking about.

    EDIT: This is in North Carolina

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    Former friend changed my Account Number on my Season Ticket account. Has had almost $15k transferred to his account when it should have been mine. Is there any way I can get it back?

    Posted: 28 Dec 2019 08:22 PM PST

    I have season tickets to a popular NBA team. The tickets are in my name but people often split season tickets for the price. I went in originally with three other friends and whenever you can't go to a game, you can sell them through a linked Ticketmaster account.

    Whenever they wanted to sell a game, I would put the amount in, would get paid to my account, and then I would venmo them. For example, they want to sell two seats at $50 per seat ($100 total), it would go to my checking account, and then I would venmo them $100.

    One time I was unable to do this for my friend (was camping/away from a compute) so he asked for the login, changed the price of his tickets, and then sold them. What I didn't know at the time was he CHANGED MY ACCOUNT INFORMATION. He changed my checking account number to his but left all of the other contact info in my name, address, etc. There was never any mention of this happening.

    Since I had had money deposited into my account before this, I figured it would still be going to my account so I didn't check for the longest time. This was three seasons ago and I have since gone solo on the tickets for the following seasons.

    This "friend" had recently got caught stealing from his roommate so he could sports gamble. This is now his reputation and we have had a falling out.

    Flash forward to a couple days ago when I started to check and see if I had been getting my ticket resale payments and I hadn't since the day he changed the account number. The value of the tickets is almost $15k. I immediately contacted Ticketmaster and my bank to see if this is an error but then it hit me, all the funds have been going to his checking account.

    I reached out to Ticketmaster and they will be running a trace account on all the tickets that I told them I hadn't been getting paid for, but the'r account department won't be back from the holidays until January 6th.

    Is there anything I can do to get the money back? I haven't contacted the "friend" yet as I want to get it in writing from Ticketmaster but the fact that he has been getting thousands of dollars into his account on an almost weekly basis and hasn't tried to correct this angers me so much.

    Any and all help would be much appreciated.

    Thanks,

    (Los Angeles, CA Throw Away Account)

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    [IA] I am interested in starting a small side business for making/selling Kydex holsters. Is there any patent law that I should be concerned with?

    Posted: 29 Dec 2019 07:49 AM PST

    Hello,

    As the title states, I am interested in starting a small business making and selling Kydex holsters for firearms, knives, tools, and pretty much anything else that a holster/sheath could be made via molding. It is pretty straight forward; you put heated Kydex around the item and it forms to it via a vacuum chamber, and then cut away any excess material and rivet a [purchased] belt clip to it. Every product would be handmade, not mass produced or machined.

    My concern is patent law. Does patent law apply to processes like what I'm describing, even if all of the work is my own? Additionally, if my product comes out similar to an existing Kydex holster product, but not exactly, would I have to worry about getting a C&D notice in the mail?

    If I need to consult a lawyer for this, that's also fine. But if it's something that I need to worry a significant amount about, then I just won't start the business. This would be small, local sales, with the possibility of expanding to national sales if it gets popular enough.

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    Was drugged at work, now manager says I can’t work??

    Posted: 29 Dec 2019 04:39 AM PST

    So I have a morning job and night job. This situation took place Friday 12/27 I'm working my night job until midnight. Around 10:45ish my manager asked if I wanted to take a shot (yes on the clock) I said sure, it was slow and I thought it would make the time fly by. 3 shots later i feel weird, not drunk but something else so I go to the bathroom and call my brother it's 11:30ish. In the bathroom I noticed my pupils were dilated and I was having symptoms of MDMA (molly). He had asked me if I wanted some I said no, I'm tired and I have work at 5:30 the next morning 12/28. He put the MDMA in the alcohol and didn't tell me. I clocked out and went straight to the hospital for the toxicology report but the doctor said they don't test for MDMA (stupid I know). I didn't end up leaving the hospital until around 3 am. I texted the manger of my morning job and let her know what happened and this idiot didn't even text me back. But the text delivered to her phone. I get home still not feeling well enough to work in 2 hours, Also thinking it's inappropriate to show up high off what ever was slipped into the alcohol. So Sunday morning rolls 12/29 around and I go to work clock in and the manager there says I can't work until I have a doctors note, she's fully aware of the situation. I contacted the hospital and I can't get the report until Tuesday. I need to work, can I contact the HR or what can I do here??

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