- I'm an illustrator/designer who came up with a drawing app idea. An app developer contacted me saying he liked my idea and asked if I wanted to create it. We did just that, it's been out a few months. Then I get an email me to say I've been dropped and won't receive any money..
- (PA) My neighbors' son destroyed my bee house and killed my mason bees. Police were not helpful. Do I have any other options?
- [ILLINOIS] Hospital assigned late wife's medical bills to me
- (PA) Landlord keeping $2000 security deposit and demanding hundreds on top in two weeks time. Charging for painting entire house over patches after a multiyear lease.
- Adopted son's bio mother might still be receiving child support. Not sure what to do next.
- (Upstate NY) Employer expects me to work while furloughed and on unemployment.
- Father was ordered by the court to pay outstanding child support but he still has not paid.
- Wife resigned yesterday, employer backtracked the resignation to April 17th
- My 16 year old niece (USA) is having an online relationship with a “25” year old man (Turkey)
- Neighbor took my dog off her leash, kept her inside and blackmailed my brothers out of $100 due to minimal pear tree damage
- [US-GA] My (22 M) dad committed suicide yesterday. Do I have the "legal right" to his service/handling/ashes or his mom?
- Forced to charge hours to an unrelated client
- Builders Want to Tear Down my Fence, will not Replace
- I stumbled upon a trove of child porn, what do I do now?
- Car Dealer Requiring a Signed Form 6 Months Later
- I think my roommate faked her death, and I'm unsure as to where to go from here.
- Police stole my money and ID after throwing me in jail for a crime I didnt commit. I was almost homeless that night.
- (WA) Is it illegal to post video of a death threat in a one party state?
- Fired because of Interim Background check? CA
- A very popular music agent has threatened me and my family for thinking i'm someone else
- Ex camgirl being blackmail?
- Does a disabled adult need to consent to be claimed as a dependednt on someone's tases? [PA]
- Can I quit my job and receive unemployment after being reduced to 30% of salary?
| Posted: 30 Apr 2020 05:02 AM PDT I'm willing to accept that I didn't have a patent and therefore he was free to take my idea. But we had a contract that promised me a percentage of app sales based on completion of work. He had me doing a thousand things not in the contract which I did for the good of the app. The only thing he can say I didn't complete was some text (I was struggling with it due to some limitations with the app). I asked for help but he didn't give any. He gave no warning and just dropped me to hire someone else, ignoring all the work I'd done and the fact that the app was my idea. Seems he didn't give fair warning and that he just dropped me because he didn't want to pay me.. He's boss of a registered company, I'm a freelance illustrator. Do I stand a chance fighting him on this? *I'm near London btw. The app developer is in Paris [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 30 Apr 2020 11:41 AM PDT This spring I decided to finally indulge my interest in bees. I bought bee houses so I could keep mason and leafcutter bees this spring and summer, as well as a stock of mason bees. My neighbor, who I'd always had a cordial relationship with prior to this, was mowing his lawn and asked me what I was doing while I was setting up the bee house, and I told him. He freaked out and said that the bees were going to sting his children. I explained to him that mason bees are super gentle, they aren't guarding honey or a hive so they have no need to be aggressive, that they only sting if squished or trapped, and their stings are relatively painless. He was still unhappy. My neighbors became very angry with me and his wife posted about how my bees were dangerous on social media. Yesterday morning I found that my bee house had been destroyed and the bees in it killed. My other neighbor has a camera in his backyard and it was able to see my neighbors' son and his friends destroying my bee house and spraying something on my bees that killed them. I work midnight shifts as an essential worker and wasn't home to hear the commotion. I called the police and the officer was very dismissive, saying "they were just bees" and "you really want a kid to go to jail over bees?" I got the impression nothing would be done. Even if they were "just bees" that kid still destroyed my property and I spent a good chunk of money on the bees and bee house. I have no idea what to do next. tl;dr: Got into a conflict with neighbors over keeping harmless mason bees. Neighbor's kid destroyed my bee house and killed my bees. Police basically laughed in my face. [link] [comments]  |
| [ILLINOIS] Hospital assigned late wife's medical bills to me Posted: 30 Apr 2020 08:59 AM PDT My wife passed away in October. She had no estate and was on social security when she passed. We never mingled finances. I paid for all living expenses (rent, bills, etc.). She had a small business and handled her own finances (two small credit cards less than $2k were her only debts). We filed taxes seperately. She was on my medical insurance. When she passed I mailed out all of her creditors the death certificate. One hospital took her remaining debt to them (about $8k in charges. She'd paid them about half a million over ten years via insurance payments and co-pays) and simply wrote my name on it and sent it to collections as overdue. I spoke to their billing dept as Illinois is not a community property state and my understanding is that what they're doing is illegal. They said it's their policy to assign patients' debts to anyone listed on the death certificate (parents, spouses, etc.). My question is, is that legal? Can they simply assign my name to a bill and destroy my credit? Seems like fraud and extortion. Does the fact that she was on my medical insurance (provided through my employer) make it my debt? No other company has attempted to collect against me for her debts. I never signed anything with the hospital. Any help appreciated. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 30 Apr 2020 05:03 PM PDT Background: I'll paint you a quick picture, and it might help you understand why I don't want to pay them and move on. This company was truly awful to deal with. We went months waiting on appliance repairs, weeks without a fridge, had regular flooding of multiple living spaces (split level house, no basement), and had to endure a constant mosquito infestation from an empty, disused pool in the backyard. I once counted over 40 bites in 10 minutes while I was assembling a new shop vac by the shed. They just had an old tarp with a bunch of holes in it on top, and they wouldn't even listen to my complaints let alone get the tarp fixed. Some of the rudest people to boot. Anyway. We lived there for 2 years. The house was clearly not painted prior to us moving in. The house was full of small holes and some unpainted patches on the walls. We even painted one bedroom ourselves (neutral colors) because the previous tenant had let their teenage son paint the room, and it was pretty bad. Lease/Letter: The lease specifically states we would not get our security deposit back until
I patched all holes in the walls, in the entire house, with spackle and sanding. These weren't large holes, just where paintings were hung and some small dings from moving furniture in/out. I did it all with a 1" putty knife, if that helps with the context. I didn't paint the patches. "Standard practices" is the term of interest, I suppose. The rest of the lease says nothing about paint or walls. They sent a letter listing the following: Security Deposit Paid: 2000 And they are demanding a certified check for 350.00 by 5/15/2020 Oh dear. Can they actually do this? I was expecting them to try to keep the deposit from the get-go, given how they operated, but I didn't expect them to ask me for MORE money. If I'm objectively in the wrong here, I can accept that. However, my current understanding is that painting is a part of regular maintenance for rentals, especially on multi-year leases. They said I had to patch all holes in walls, which I did. Please, any advice you have would be wonderful. I'm willing to do whatever it takes. Thank you! [link] [comments]  |
| Adopted son's bio mother might still be receiving child support. Not sure what to do next. Posted: 30 Apr 2020 04:04 PM PDT I am the father of my adopted son who was in foster care for 9 years. I live in Indiana, USA. We received notice earlier this month from a superior court from the county where he was born. The event and comments from the filing say "Order Granting Motion to Increase Child Support". The other parties notified were his bio mom and bio dad and an attourney. He has been adopted since January and I was planning on claiming him in my taxes as a dependent since he has lived with us for all of 2019. By all appearances it looks like bio mom has been collecting child support but has had parental rights terminated for years now. Google talks a lot about people not paying child support but not about this. My questions follow. Do I need to do something about this to protect my son? Will this complicate my tax filing process? Who all needs to be notified of this? Thanks in advance. [link] [comments]  |
| (Upstate NY) Employer expects me to work while furloughed and on unemployment. Posted: 30 Apr 2020 09:08 AM PDT I am an IT professional, but the company I work for is in the entertainment field, so we are as far from essential as it gets. We were shut down due to coronavirus on March 15th. The company continued to pay us up until April 16th, but on the 17th I was furloughed and told to apply for unemployment. Now my bosses are sending me constant emails expecting me to work on projects from home while they do not pay me and I collect unemployment. From what I've seen on the NYS labor website, this constitutes unemployment fraud. The company has been fairly good to me and I don't want to see them fail, but I'm also not comfortable committing fraud on their behalf. Am I in the right here, or have I misunderstood something? [link] [comments]  |
| Father was ordered by the court to pay outstanding child support but he still has not paid. Posted: 30 Apr 2020 02:44 PM PDT I live in Florida. My ex-husband was ordered by a judge to pay over $6000 in owed child support that he withheld for frivolous and unfounded reasons. He was given 30 days to pay, it's been 42 days. I am unable to afford an attorney and I really need this money to put towards my daughter's higher education. How can I make him pay without hiring an attorney and squandering all of my savings? Thank in advance for the help, y'all. -Teddy [link] [comments]  |
| Wife resigned yesterday, employer backtracked the resignation to April 17th Posted: 30 Apr 2020 03:33 PM PDT So I live in Texas now due to my employment and my wife has been in NYC for the last few months due to her not being able to break the lease early without having to pay the entirety of the remaining rent. Her lease is now over on the last of this month and she's moving on May 2nd down here to Texas, so she submitted her resignation letter yesterday, and her employer, [retracted] in NYC located in Harlem, backtracked her employment to the 17th of last month (the last time she got paid, so we're assuming is so that they don't have to pay her tomorrow). One important thing to note is that she has not been working, but no one in her workplace is working either due to COVID-19, so I don't know if that makes a difference, but is that legal? Sorry for the bad formatting, I don't know how to format on reddit, and if I'm missing any information you guys need to know, just ask and I'll try to provide it. Thanks in advance. Attached are the pictures of the emails they sent: https://imgur.com/HDUl65k https://imgur.com/z8nZPvo [link] [comments]  |
| My 16 year old niece (USA) is having an online relationship with a “25” year old man (Turkey) Posted: 30 Apr 2020 03:31 AM PDT I have recently made contact with my niece whom I haven't spoken to since she was a baby. However she and I live on opposite sides of the country. She told me she is dating an older man and said he is 25. They met online when she was 14 and kept contact for the last two years, she showed me his fb and he looks at least mid 30's. He lives in Turkey and she lives in the USA. I asked if her mom knew and she said yes, when I spoke to her mom she confirmed that she knew and is fine with it because he makes her feel loved. I've tried speaking to my niece myself about how dangerous this could turn out and she should date someone her own age, but she refuses to recognize this isn't normal. Is this legal? Could this be considered child neglect? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 30 Apr 2020 04:43 PM PDT Title basically sums it up. I live in Wisconsin. While I was at work today, my two younger brothers (15yo George and 19yo Kyle) were home alone with my dog. She's a Shih-Poo, so she's a very small dog and very friendly. George put the dog out in our yard on a long leash, which is made of two leashes clipped together so she can have more space to walk around. When George went to bring her inside, he noticed my dog had managed to sneak under our neighbor's fence. He called out for her and pulled on the leash but our neighbor had unclipped one of the leashes and was holding our dog inside her home. My brothers both walked to her front door and asked for our dog back. It was a grumpy middle aged woman, who told them our dog had wrapped around one of her pear trees and damaged it and that the cops were on their way and they would be taking the dog to the pound. She lead them to the damaged trees in her backyard. According to Kyle, one tree had minimal markings on it, but it looked fine and he commented how it's still alive and our dog didn't kill it. Our neighbor scoffed and told him it was going to die due to the damage and it would cost $250 to buy a new pear tree of that size. She then told them that if they gave her $100, they could have the dog back and not deal with the cops. My brother told her she was holding our dog hostage and she scoffed again. They gave her the $100 to avoid talking to the cops. They were scared the cops would take our dog away. She gave the dog back after they handed the money over. She intimidated my little brothers and blackmailed them into giving her money. I don't believe she ever called the cops or she wouldn't have made a deal before they got there. We live very close to a police station. We've never had an issue with this woman before, or any neighbors at that. They put the fence up many years ago. The fence doesn't touch the floor along the middle so that's how my dog managed to squeeze under it. I know tree law can be serious and I understand my dog was on her property, but she should have went to the guardians of the household instead of holding the dog inside her home and blackmailed my younger brothers out of $100. I'd like to get the money back, as I don't believe the damage warrants that cost. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 30 Apr 2020 06:19 PM PDT in usa, Georgia. Not sure why automod flaggerbme As far as I know there was no will or anything of that nature. Sorry if this is the wrong sub or isn't a legal matter. Tried googling but I'm struggling a lot, honestly this is a tough time for me. Thanks for your help. [link] [comments]  |
| Forced to charge hours to an unrelated client Posted: 30 Apr 2020 05:10 PM PDT Hello. I work in an industry where our hours are usually billed to projects, if not, to overhead. I'm facing a problem where my manager has asked me to work on a task worth around 16 hours of work that should definitely be billed to overhead. Instead, in a written message, he told me I should just charge those hours to a huge project of mine, a high-profile client with an enormous budget. I would be working on this in the next couple of weeks. What should I do? I don't want to charge hours to a client that has no relation to the task, but I also am in fear of getting retaliated by the company for disobeying his request. Location is Virginia. [link] [comments]  |
| Builders Want to Tear Down my Fence, will not Replace Posted: 29 Apr 2020 07:17 PM PDT Builders have bought the land on all sides of my house and the townhomes they build are around 6 feet from my back fence. They came by and informed me that they need to come around 5 feet into my property in order to put a giant drain underground. They also said the area would need to become a road way for utilities like gas and fire to be able to access all the homes via an alleyway. They acted like it was a favor to cut the trees and tear down my fence on their dime but that I would be financially responsible for putting up new fencing to replace what they tear down. Due to the new road, the new fence would end up being 6 feet inside where it is today. Do I have any leg to stand on to try and fight this? I'm afraid once I go down the rabbit hole of trying to fight it it might cost more than replacing 60 feet of chain link fence and seceding my land. It just feels so wrong that they decided to build so close to my fence and now they're saying due to city code for utilities I am expected to share the burden of making a 12 foot alleyway. I'm not sure if they are being 100% truthful and don't know how to fight this. They went from saying it was my fence on their property to my fence wasn't set back enough to it was a utility concern to they could have a letter sent demanding I pay for it and do the work myself by x date if I don't comply with their plan. I am located in Charlotte, North Carolina [link] [comments]  |
| I stumbled upon a trove of child porn, what do I do now? Posted: 29 Apr 2020 11:28 PM PDT As the title says, I was on Twitter and I found CP. It was from an account that posted pictures of underage girls fully clothed. I did not follow the account but I went through it's post history to find a telegram link to a group that has actual images of young female girls in horrible situations. There is also normal porn which is also prohibited by telegram. I already reported the group but I was approached by two members who asked me for pictures of myself despite me saying I was 15. Someone else also sent me videos. How can I report this to the feds without any trouble? I'm in the USA but it appears the majority of the posters on the group are Spanish Speaking. I have screenshots of everything that happened and I have since blocked everyone and left the group. Any help is much appreciated. Thank you. [link] [comments]  |
| Car Dealer Requiring a Signed Form 6 Months Later Posted: 30 Apr 2020 09:47 AM PDT New York I purchased a used vehicle in October 2019. After the purchase, I had several issues with the dealership not following through on parts of the offer that were supposed to be included. I had evidence that they altered the contract after signing by whiting out parts of the offer. Those issues are largely resolved at this point after getting their attorney involved. Now, they are contacting me trying to get me to sign a form that should have been signed at the time of purchase. The form is a DMV form to add a lien on the vehicle for my lender. My understanding is that this form is, in fact, required, and not some other scam from them. I received a clean title from the DMV without a lien on it and I know there should be one on there. The dealership wants me sign the form for the lien and send them my clean title. I have no interest in dealing with the dealership. I do not trust them. My lender is Capital One, and I don't mind dealing with them, but they have not reached out to me with any request for the title or to sign additional paperwork. I know that the clean title does not release me from any obligation to pay my loan. I am on time with my payments and have no intention of becoming delinquent. I guess my question is - am I required to send the dealership my clean title and sign the form per their request? Are there any legal consequences for me by ignoring them? My guess is this is just another example of how disorganized they are and they are trying to cover yet another of their mistakes. Thanks in advance. [link] [comments]  |
| I think my roommate faked her death, and I'm unsure as to where to go from here. Posted: 30 Apr 2020 11:06 AM PDT A while ago, I was told through text via a number that I didn't recognize that my roommate had died in a car accident. Because of the lack of information both in the text and online (I could never find a report of a fatal accident that fit her description), I've never really been able to believe that text that I received. Over the following months, I was constantly receiving more and more information that just didn't add up, including information about her that she had lied about, such as her age and marital status. The part that makes everything especially hard to believe is the fact that the unknown contact said they had moved her stuff when I was out of town, but there is zero footage on my Ring Camera of them doing so. The only other person who had access to it was my roommate. I just want clarity that she is either alive or dead. Sidenote: Our roommate dynamic was great! We had actually become great friends throughout the time we lived together and I was constantly telling her how great of a roommate she was. Which makes me even more confused about the whole situation. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 30 Apr 2020 05:03 PM PDT I was driving to Las Vegas from texas with money in my car when i was pulled over for speeding. When asked where i was going to and coming from I said I didnt want to discuss my day. they pulled me out of my car, brought a k9, and did a search. they found money in the car charged me with money laundering and cotrolling a criminal enterprise, no questions asked. after seizing my phone, car, and money, all I had left when I went to jail was my wallet. I spent 2 days in before being bonded out. Now here's the issue, when I was released I was in a small town in the middle of nowhere, about 800 miles away from home. All I had left was a credit card. I tried to get a hotel room but every hotel by law required an ID to reserve a room. thankfully a handful of townspeople helped me get on my feet but if it wasnt for people paying for an uber and then driving me around for an hour before being able to find a hotel that would accept me without an ID I wouldve been sleeping on the street. After getting back on my feet and having one of my parents arrive to help the next day, we went around trying to find my ID. first we went up to the police station where I was held at. The man at the front desk checked evidence for me and said there was no ID filed in evidence and that I should check the jail. When I went to the jail, the man who checked me in happened to be there and said when I arrived the cops never gave him my ID which meant they had kept it when I first handed over my ID for speeding. We went back to the station a second time and the front desk guy said he'd ask the officer who arrested me when he came back on duty. I gave him my number and left. About 30 minutes later I received a call saying that the detective had "accidentally" kept my ID and that I could come pick it up. My question is, am I able to sue for all of the trouble they caused me by keeping that ID? [link] [comments]  |
| (WA) Is it illegal to post video of a death threat in a one party state? Posted: 30 Apr 2020 04:22 AM PDT After playing a video game a person who got very angry found my real information and called my phone a hundred times. After I finally answered, out of concern, I recorded the conversation on my computer's camera. This person threatened murder, called me a n*****r and a fa**ot, etc. Is it illegal to post this video to YouTube, or does it have to just go to the police? [link] [comments]  |
| Fired because of Interim Background check? CA Posted: 30 Apr 2020 03:53 PM PDT Hi, throw away account, sorry for any errors as I am a mess. I am in San Diego, CA. I wanted to leave my current govt. contractor job and so I applied and then got an offer from a company for a different govt. contract. I need to obtain a secret security clearance in order to get my start date. They applied for my interim so that I could work while the full background check was finished. I didn't get the interim, so they are investigating further. But because of this, my TASS for my current govt. job was revoked? I got a call today at 1:00 while I was at work that I was fired effective immediately and to pack my stuff and vacate the premises at once. I don't understand what is going on. No one can tell me why this happened, why it was revoked, what about the process caused it to be, etc. I don't know how this works. The HR for my potential job says it doesn't make sense they would fire me for this, people don't get their interims all the time and the investigation continues and then usually people are good to go. I emailed the background check place to try and get a copy of my report, but they won't be in the office until tomorrow. I can't file for unemployment because the website says I have to call to apply, and the people are already gone for the day. I've never broken the law, done drugs, had a security breach, been affiliated with any kind of groups, been written up or disciplined for anything, been fired before, nothing. I don't understand what is going on. Can someone explain what my rights are? I haven't received my final paycheck yet and I'm not sure what rights I have/had as a government contractor. And if anyone who is familiar with military jobs and could give me some clarity, that would be so appreciated. I don't know what to do. I am devastated and jobless now. Thanks in advance for any help. [link] [comments]  |
| A very popular music agent has threatened me and my family for thinking i'm someone else Posted: 30 Apr 2020 01:39 PM PDT Throw-away account for obvious reasons. This morning I received a cease and desist email (they said the physical is coming in my mail soon), stating that I am using the likeness of their person illegally. There's a popular instagram account that has been using this persons face on tshirts and selling them for quite some time and their manager contacted my personal email, and instagram. This man (manager) is a verified instagram user with over 30k followers and followed by the artists he represents. So he is legit... Today I got multiple emails from him and other management/lawyers for this company. I am in no way affiliated with this instagram account but their manager thinks I run it. I received 6 phone calls in the past 30 mins - I answered two of them and recorded them both. Both of them the 'manager' says my name, my wife's name, and my mothers name. He said he knows where I live and to "do the right thing". I honestly have no clue what he's talking about. I feel a threatened and scared, advice? Should I file a report with the police? I responded to the email saying they have the wrong person but it has persisted. I asked for a monetary settlement or I would contact my lawyer and go public with his threats. Any advice? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 30 Apr 2020 11:13 AM PDT I was a camgirl about ten years ago. I'm a different person now but my ex contacted me wanting me to help him out since he's out of work due to the pandemic. I told him I couldn't help and then he threatened blackmail with links on download sites (not the original site which has copyright) by sending them to people who don't know I did this. Do I have any legal recourse for this? If so, where do I start? What kind of lawyer would I need? Regardless of my past I don't think that's okay and I think he should face consequences but I'm not sure what I can do or if I even have the right to. Edit: in the u.s. [link] [comments]  |
| Does a disabled adult need to consent to be claimed as a dependednt on someone's tases? [PA] Posted: 30 Apr 2020 06:40 PM PDT I'm actually writing for the case of my brother. He (single dad) and his son live with our parents. I do not. He has connect disability for years, small sum and some food stamps for meals. He pays for his son's kindergarden, sports cloubs, the Y, health bills, and half the food on top of thate he pais the energy (gas & electric combo bill). He doesnt get any financial support from parents. They do get some food too. Help out with the grandson, play often, watch sometimes. It's the product of no communication. However, since the lived together, and he got approved for social security disability benifits, my parents have been claiming him as a dependant without his knowledge. He did know they claim his son and he was ok with that. It is just, with this economic stimulus check. He feels cheated. Our parents got the benefit with the child bonus. He got nothing. He didn know he was being cliamined. They told him not to try, but could he even try? Could he say he didn't see himself as a dependant? Do they need his consent to list him? If so how can he fix this if he wanted to? Also, he is worried if the mother ever comes back into the picure, could the mother use the fact that he is dependant to get shared-custody? If he was asked if he was considered a dependant officially, and he said "No" by not knowing, could he be liable or held accountable for lying? I guess they could have asked that in custody court or something like that. Thanks for your time. You can read my other posts if you like family drama and want to some context to the situation. Cheers. [link] [comments]  |
| Can I quit my job and receive unemployment after being reduced to 30% of salary? Posted: 30 Apr 2020 08:47 AM PDT Edit: Thanks all. My employer clarified some things regarding the salary reduction, so I'm withdrawing my question. [link] [comments]  |
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