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    Legal Advice Is my neighbor committing mail fraud by returning my mail without my consent?

    Legal Advice Is my neighbor committing mail fraud by returning my mail without my consent?


    Is my neighbor committing mail fraud by returning my mail without my consent?

    Posted: 12 Jun 2020 07:09 AM PDT

    Throwaway out of fear of retaliation, Maryland resident. This is a complex situation so bear with me, TLDR at bottom.

    My boyfriend and I rent an in-law apartment above a garage that is in the backyard of my landlords house. He signed the lease alone before we met, I held on to my lease in another city but when I got a job close to his apartment, we basically started living together. The super chill landlord amended the lease to acknowledge that I reside here and raised the rent $50 a month without making me sign the lease.

    The problem is that the super chill landlord is married to a decidedly unchill woman. I will not go into detail about some of the things she's done, but it's very clear that her actions are malicious and deliberate.

    She took our landlord to court and had him removed from the home. She wanted both of us to sign a new lease with her, but my boyfriend refused to be her tenant. We checked the court order and confirmed with landlord and landlords lawyer that despite his absence, he is still the owner of the property, so boyfriend signed a new lease with him. After my other lease ended, I signed the lease here so I am now a legal resident here. Just to give you a sense of this woman, after she found out that he had signed a lease with landlord and not her, she turned our hot water heater down which was behind a locked door that we didn't have the key to, and wouldn't fix it until the landlord told her that she was interfering with our tenants rights.

    We have no legal obligation to his wife. However, we share certain county amenities, such as garbage cans and a mailbox. My shipping address for deliveries has been [boyfriend FN - my initials - boyfriend LN] to ensure she wouldn't mess with my mail before I was on the lease. She has previously held onto our mail or packages without letting us know that they're here and/or left them outside in the rain to be destroyed.

    A few weeks ago, I noticed that an order I had made for clothes had been refunded because it had been returned to sender due to address issues. I wrote it off as a one off USPS mistake and didn't follow up or reorder because it wasn't an essential purchase. I bought new glasses, I have awful eyesight, that wouldn't interfere with my mask as my job is starting to open up. As far as I knew, they were scheduled to be delivered today. Apparently, they were delivered on Wednesday to the mailbox and returned to sender on Thursday. I saw her both Wednesday and Thursday and she said nothing to me.

    I have other medical devices being shipped, and have not received any mail here other than my official change of address, which was pulp because the rain destroyed it, because she took it out of the mailbox and left it in the rain on her porch. I am confident she is doing this intentionally to me.

    Is this a crime? What should I do? How can I protect my mail if it gets put in a shared mailbox that she gets ring alerts to and we don't? Help please.

    TLDR; Share mailbox with Landlord's estranged wife, she is returning my mail without my consent or alerting me of its arrival. Want to know what my legal rights are.

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    SC - Recently bought a house and the Seller lied about age and condition of HVAC system in disclosures

    Posted: 12 Jun 2020 10:22 AM PDT

    The seller's disclosures stated the HVAC system was 3 years old. We've been having trouble with it and had a tech out yesterday and he said the unit was 20 years old, the coil was 16 years old and the furnace was 25 years old.

    Is there a way we can make the seller pay for a new unit? Should we take them to small claims? I know the small claims limit in South Carolina is $7500.

    The HVAC tech said the cost of repairs is much more than the old unit is worth, effectively totaling it.

    There have been a ton of other minor undisclosed issues with the house but this is the first pricey one. We unfortunately do not have the quoted $7,000 to install an entirely new system.

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    Boss went into my chrome history and fired me today for it.

    Posted: 11 Jun 2020 07:47 PM PDT

    From Wyoming. I know there is a lot of things I could have done to prevent this but now I'm looking for help. So today at work I left my computer up and logged in for my coworker/best friend that never got a log in because he was just filling in temporarily. There are 3 other people in the same position as I am that do this. Our boss came in later in the day and sent him home early because it was so slow.

    Well I had my google account signed into chrome and he went thru my past history and looked all the way back to the end of March. He used the timestamps on the history and the time clock to see what I was looking at while at work. I never looked at anything on the work computer except weather and YouTube but because I had my sync for my google account on, anything that I looked up on my phone or at home was put to the same history. (I used google to save my passwords that I needed for different websites I had to use.)

    They used this today to terminate me after almost 8 years and the last 5-6 without any disciplinary action. (instant termination) I've gone thru my google activity and found they downloaded everything connected to google to an email using google takeout. This includes pictures, history, locations, practically everything from my phone or home computer. They used the work computer to do this. I feel like them downloading my info is illegal and looking for advice on any of this.

    EDIT: I want the data they downloaded deleted. I'm not trying to fight the termination.

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    [NY] my partner and I are in the process of offering on houses. Our realtor says it’s fine to bid on multiple houses and drop out. Good faith appears to say otherwise?

    Posted: 12 Jun 2020 06:50 AM PDT

    Hello. My partner and I are looking to buy a home. We currently are in love with two houses, one is taking offers until the tonight (this is our less favorite of the two, but we still really like it) and the other (the one we'd prefer to get) is taking offers until tomorrow.

    We asked our realtor what we can do here. We'd be happy with either house but obviously want the one we prefer a bit more.

    She said we can offer on both of them, then have our attorney deny the offer on the less preferred home if we happen to get accepted at both. She said this is a commonly used tactic when the market is so competitive like it is today (both the houses already have 10+ offers not including our own).

    This didn't sit right with me so I looked up the laws of good faith and it sound like this is in blatant disregard to it. Could someone help me understand if this is legal? Is it unethical? Thanks!

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    Hit by a speeding wrong-way driver in my own driveway - insurance holding me 70% responsible

    Posted: 12 Jun 2020 12:59 PM PDT

    I got into a car accident earlier this month pulling out of my driveway. I got hit while almost stationary by a car speeding on the wrong side of the street (driver was on cell phone). There was a witness to all of this whom the insurance company interviewed (albeit with much prodding). Notwithstanding, the insurance is holding me at 70% fault, saying it was my responsibility to check both ways even though the other driver was so clearly on the wrong side of the road (and I checked both ways 3x and honked 2x bc of how bad the visibility is on this street with cars parked and crammed like sardines. The insurance company's people said that they're not accepting less fault bc they can't prove that the other driver was speeding and are claiming (somewhat outrageously) that since there's no painted line down this residential street, it's not a 2-way street - though a simple Google maps search shows how obviously this isn't the case - esp with cars parked on either side of the street, but facing opposite directions . The police were called but flat out refused to respond or take a report, citing "high tactical alert". This was in Los Angeles. (Bad drivers and bonehead cops. Who knew, right?)

    Now to the meat of the matter:

    My insurance company's people, said that if they receive evidence of speeding they'll consider it. To that end, a few questions:

    1. Is it worth the time and hassle to attempt to prove the other driver's speeding? How much will proving the other driver's speeding help me in terms of liability? How much will this "improvement" save me in insurance premiums? If the liability decisions remains unchanged, for how long approximately will it influence my insurance premiums?

    1. This is a physics question. My car was pointed to the right at about a fifteen degree angle clockwise (1230 o'clock). The accident (also coming the right) rotated my car thirty degrees making it face counter clockwise at fifteen degrees (1130 o'clock approximately). I know the weight of my car which means I can calculate how much force would be required to rotate it 30 degrees counterclockwise while positioned at 15 degrees clockwise. I also know the weight of the other driver's car. If I divide the necessary force by the weight of the other driver's car, I should get the velocity of the vehicle that hit me (bc momentum=mass*velocity). Problem is, it's been a while since physics class and idr offhand how to do these calculations, nor how to factor in degrees and radians as they pertain to the specific site and angle of impact. If any of you know how to do this, that would be extremely helpful.

    Please lmk.

    Thank you.

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    I (21F) just caught my mentally disabled sister (25F) masturbating over FaceTime with a non mentally disabled man

    Posted: 12 Jun 2020 08:59 AM PDT

    This is my first time posting here, sorry if I make any mistakes.

    For context: My family lives in North Carolina. My sister is severely mentally disabled. The doctor's don't quite have answers as to what exact condition she has, but severe mental retardation is generally how they refer to it. An incident occurred shortly after her birth and the oxygen supply to her brain was cut off for several minutes. The results were severe. She has made some progress, but not a lot.

    She will always be at the mental age of a six year old. She can't speak full sentences, just short words and phrases. She still plays with dolls. She still believes in Santa. She will always be dependent on my father, and eventually me.

    Today, I walked in on her fingering herself on FaceTime with a guy. She quickly ended the call and hid her phone but from the quick glance I saw of his face and the way he spoke a few words, there's no doubt in my mind that he's not mentally disabled.

    I don't even know what to do. My father raised us alone and as much as I love him, he wasn't equipped to deal with my sister and our family suffered as a result. He is way out of his depth and I know that if I don't push him, he likely won't do anything other than ground her and take her phone away.

    The only thing I can thing of doing is taking her phone and laptop away and blocking him. But there's a million other ways he can reach out to her, and there's no way to stop it. I'm terrified that he's taking advantage of her and maybe even posting screenshots or videos online.

    My question is: is there any action legally we can take against this guy, or at least know about in case this happens again? What can I do to protect her?

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    Asking for my mom: her company is holding her responsible for a $900 company phone bill because she was working from home, can they do this? Also issues with COVID & pay?

    Posted: 12 Jun 2020 08:43 AM PDT

    location: FL-USA My mom works for a large manufacturing company in an accounting role. When covid hit, she started working from home. Due to the fact she lives in a rural area and doesn't have internet at her house she was using the hotspot on her work issued cellphone to power her work computer. She did not use her work cellphone for anything personal.

    My mom didn't realize she needed to ask permission to use the hotspot on her work phone. I guess it wasn't until after my mom had been working from home for 3 months the company noticed the phone bill was high (due to the hot spot usage). My mom just returned to working in her office this month and upon returning they asked her about the bill and she explained that she was using the hotspot to work. This is when her boss told her she should when asked permission to use it and they are expecting her to pay out of pocket for the company cell phone bill.

    Additionally, my father suddenly became ill on Monday will a fever. He also works in the same plant in an essential position. The company has a rule that you cannot report to work with a fever and you must be asymptomatic for at least 3 days to return. There is also a rule that if another person in the household is also employed at the plant (like my mom) they also cannot return to work if they've been in contact with the sick person. Both my mom and dad called into their respective supervisors and HR to report the issue and find out what they needed to do.

    My dad is being tested for covid-19 today. Apparently they just told my mom it is unlikely she will get paid for the days she is having to miss because my dad is sick. It's still unclear if she will or won't get paid, but having my dad test for covid may help her case. I believe they also mentioned that my dad may he forced to use his vacation time to cover what he's missed and they will hold this time against him somehow.

    So is there anyway my mom can argue back against paying her employer's phone bill and about pay in the event my dad does or doesn't test positive for covid.

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    [TX] I work in an automotive shop. We dump our mopwater straight into the storm drain. Anything I can do about this?

    Posted: 12 Jun 2020 11:45 AM PDT

    I work in a mechanic shop in TX and we do not have a dedicated mop sink. Instead we dump & get mop water from the car wash bays. Every other shop I've worked at has had a dedicated mop sink and mop drain. I was under the impression that a shop was required by EPA law to have a separate shop mop sink. Anyone who knows more about environmental law than me know if this is legal? How do I go about talking to my boss about this? I don't like to dump mopwater that I know has oil and coolant down the wash drain. Thanks

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    I'm 17, turning 18 very soon and want to runaway

    Posted: 12 Jun 2020 05:34 AM PDT

    I'm 17, my parental figure I live with is incredibly controlling across all me and my other older siblings and I'm done with the control said parent has. I have a place I could theoretically stay, but what are the legal troubles the person hosting me could get into for harboring me until I'm 18? (Colorado)

    Edit: parental person also has been emotionally abusive over the years, and ive been diagnosed with severe depression and anxiety. They've done nothing about it, and constantly talk about how bad I am and how worthless I'm going to be.

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    Can I prevent the police from digging up my mother's remains?

    Posted: 12 Jun 2020 08:22 AM PDT

    My stepfather is serving life in prison for murder and a variety of other crimes. Yesterday I was informed by detectives that they suspect he also killed my mother. That was 18 years ago. My mother went missing one day. Her body was found 4 days later in a river next to our town. She appeared to have drowned. At the time her death was ruled an accident/suicide. She was depressed and had other mental health issues so we believed that was what happened. Now they say as part of an investigation they are restarting they need to dig up my mother's body. The idea is very upsetting to me. I'm not sure I see the point of this as my stepfather is already in prison and never getting out so it feels like justice has been served anyway. My question is simple, do I have the right to oppose the exhumation of my mother's remains?

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    My son told me to post on here about my job

    Posted: 12 Jun 2020 12:11 AM PDT

    I am sorry if I am doing this wrong. He set me up on this and told me to tell you what happened.

    I am 53 and I live in Washington. I have Chronic Kidney Disease and received a kidney transplant.

    I have been working at a tree care company for 11 years as the front desk person. I am basically a secretary, but I also help with payroll and do other things.

    Around the middle of May they told me that I could not return to work at the beginning of June like the rest of the office, due to my high risk from the kidney transplant. So I have been waiting to hear when it was okay to return.

    Then, yesterday, Wednesday, I received a phone call from Fernando. He started the call with "As you know, your position has been eliminated." Well, you may be shocked to hear this, but I didn't know. Apparently I'm the only person who didn't. They have eliminated my position, and hired someone else to take on some of the work I was doing.

    Fernando told me I have two options: I have to quit, or I can accept a position as a telemarketer. He said I have 3 days to decide. He said I should take the telemarketer position because then they will keep me on my insurance. Obviously I need the insurance. Have you seen the price of anti-rejection drugs? And I have to see a lot of doctors.

    My son says they are taking advantage of me. I have to miss work sometimes because of my health, and my boss is a very selfish and self-centered man. He thinks the office workers are a money drain, and he treats us like crap. Probably doesn't like that I get time off for medical reasons.

    My son also thinks it's illegal for them to tell me I have to quit or take a telemarketing job. Telemarketers have a quota, and have to work 10 hour shifts. They can make really good money, but they are also treated very poorly. The Glassdoor reviews are not very kind, and the turnover is pretty high. He thinks they want me to take a telemarketing position so they can fire me for not hitting quota, and then not pay me unemployment.

    He wants me to talk to a lawyer, but I don't have a lot of money. I'm not sure how to even go about that. That's why he told me to come here first. I hope you can help. Thank you!

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    [VA] Mother-in-Law had our pet put down without anyone's knowledge or permission.

    Posted: 12 Jun 2020 08:18 AM PDT

    I'm living in Virginia right now, looking for advice before contacting a lawyer or the police.

    My husband just got off the phone with his dad where he learned that the family dog had been put down. Although old, she was still healthy, walked with a bit of a limp, and had no major health concerns that would require euthanasia. MiL waited until he was at work, snuck the dog off to "a friend of hers who works at a vet" and had the dog put down.

    She's never liked the dog as it's a reminder of dad's past marriage, and this is far from the craziest thing she's done, but I'm honestly at a loss as to whether we can do anything about her effectively stealing the dog away to have it killed. The dog was licensed in dad's name, and has been in the family longer than MiL has. It was the last connection my husband and his sister had to their mother, who passed away a decade ago.

    Any advice on what we could do would be greatly appreciated.

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    Neighbor beats dog every morning?

    Posted: 12 Jun 2020 05:30 AM PDT

    For the past couple of weeks I've notice almost every morning I wake up to my neighbor screaming at his dog and forcing him out the house and you can clearly hear the dog whimpering and crying. This has been happening almost every day and I can't take it anymore. His outright abusing that dog and doesn't seem normal for a person to act this way on a daily basis screaming out of the top of his lungs every morning for everyone to hear and beating the dog because I'm guessing it crapped in the house. My question is who should I get in touch with and what actions could be taken?

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    Concrete truck ripped out electrical line and caused $1,800 worth of damage, refusing to pay

    Posted: 12 Jun 2020 10:41 AM PDT

    Hello all, lets set up some background info on this.

    Tennessee, USA

    The house is 70 years old.

    I live on a dead end street, towards the end.

    My wife and I are renting this house from my father-in-law.

    He didnt tell the homeowners insurance company that we are renting so we were denied the claim from them.

    December of 2019

    EPB (my electrical provider) came out to my house to replace the meter face with a new one. The guy that came out notified me that a small C-clamp that was holding the meter to the exterior wall of my house had worked it way out and was needing to be re-attached before he could swap meters. I had thought about doing this myself, but im not an electrician and dont want to kill myself. It never got replaced, meter or clamp, due to financial issues.

    Fast forward to April 4, 2020

    My neighbor across the street had some plumbing work done to their house and the plumbing company had sourced Sequatchie Concrete Company to fill in some areas that need concrete. So the large concrete mixer truck came down my dead end street, poured the mixture and left.

    As the concrete truck left, the top of the truck snagged my electrical line and proceeded to rip off the meter center from my house. The plumbers were still on site and tried to wave the truck down but to no avail. I filed a police report for hit and run property damage and called EPB. They came out , said they could not re-attach the line because the meter and subsequent interior lines were potentially damaged. They disconnected the electrical line and left. My wife and i moved all of our fridge food to my parents house and crashed with them for 4 days until we found enough money for the electrician to come out and he could fix it. $1,800 later, we were back in our home.

    Pictures

    Now Sequatchie is saying that because the line was mounted too low, was not up to code, and was previously damaged (missing the c-clamp) they are not to be held responsible for this. I just dont believe this to be true. At the end of the day, it was their truck that damaged my home. EPB has sent me a letter of denial saying it was not their fault and i am expecting one from Sequatchie as well soon.

    EPB Denial

    I was hoping to settle this without the need to hire a lawyer.

    Any help is very much appreciated

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    Former boss stopped paying me (1099). What can I do?

    Posted: 12 Jun 2020 05:49 AM PDT

    I am a doctor, and this was a medical practice in New York state. I was a 1099 employee, and paid a percentage of my total collections based on the patients I saw. I now know this is an illegal setup after doing some research. I was being paid a weekly check while at the practice, and left at the end of January to relocate to another state. The agreement was that my former boss would send a check every 2 weeks as he received the various insurance checks. Can take up to 1-3 months to receive insurance payments sometimes. Well he only sent a total of 2 checks since I left in January.

    Between Covid and other family issues I didn't pursue the lack of payment because there had never been any issues with getting paid in the past. And it can take a while for health insurance companies to pay out claims. I have tried contacting my former employer via phone, text, and email over the past 2 weeks, with no response. I am probably owed somewhere in the ballpark of 10k to 30k. Hard to say without seeing the explanation of benefits for each patient I treated, because those statements went directly to the practice address. I have no way of logging into their billing system to verify for myself either.

    I was looking into filing a complaint with the NY state labor department, and looking into hiring an attorney if I don't hear back from him soon. Any advice is appreciated!

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    is my neighbor required to put up a fence?

    Posted: 12 Jun 2020 07:35 AM PDT

    I live in MA. We purchased and moved into a home this past September. My neighbor directly behind me owns and operates a dog grooming/ doggy daycare business out of her home. She does have 3 or 4 ft garden fencing in her front yard. The door for her business faces my house though, and there is not a barrier between that door and my back door. My back yard is pretty small. Her customers and their dogs frequently cut through my property to get to her business. Often times unleashed dogs get loose and run over to whoever is standing in my yard when the customers are talking to her, or bringing the dogs in and out. I do like dogs, but I don't like stranger dogs charging me and my kids on our own property no matter how cute, fluffy, and friendly they may be. My husband does not like dogs, and is allergic. Sometimes a dog will poop on my property as well. My question is would this neighbor be legally responsible for putting up a proper fence due to the nature of having a dog business and keeping her clientele from coming into my property, and potentially doing damage or harming a child? Even a friendly dog can jump up and over power a kid. I don't want bad blood with this neighbor, but I also don't prioritize my popularity over the safety of my family and property. I would not lose an awful lot of sleep if the neighbor was grumpy about having to put up a fence.

    EDIT: I'm not planning on "complaining to the government" or calling animal control or trying to get her business shut down. I was just wondering if she would be legally responsible for a fence. My plan was to offer to split the cost with her. I have about 60ft of nice vinyl paneling to put up, but the surveying for property lines and the labor and parts for getting the fence I have up is expensive.

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    Lender missed closing date twice and now unwilling to provide a letter that invokes our financial contingency

    Posted: 12 Jun 2020 05:08 AM PDT

    Our lender has delayed the processing of our home mortgage. We chose this lender because they promised us early on that they will be able to meet the closing date. By the original closing date, we still hadn't received the final underwriter approval so we moved the date by another 4 days. Now we are at the second closing date and they still haven't got a final underwriter approval. They are very unresponsive and fail to provide any information about where our loan as it or what's causing the delay. We haven't extended the closing date yet since the listing agent hasn't got in touch with seller yet.

    Our financial contingency states that:

    If the buyer is unable to obtain financing by closing after a good faith effort then, on Buyer's notice this agreement shall terminate. The earnest money shall be refunded to the buyer after lender confirms in writing 1. The date the loan application was made and a copy of the loan disclosure document. 2. The buyer possessed sufficient funds to close. 3. The reason buyer was unable to obtain financing by Closing.

    We've been asking this letter on the last day of closing by the lender and they have outright refused us. We applied on time, we had sufficient funds and the reason we're unable to close by this date is due to bank's delay.

    What's our legal recourse here? The sellers haven't extended the closing date yet and the bank has not provided this letter.

    Has our financial contingency become void after the contract expired without an extension?

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    Accused of re depositing old checks

    Posted: 12 Jun 2020 10:42 AM PDT

    I got a call from my old company that I worked for, a year and a half ago. I didn't pick up because I didn't recognize the number. A few days later a Investigator started looking for me, showing up at my house while I was at work. I called him and was told that 3 of my old pay checks got re deposited per mobile deposit into my bank account. I checked my bank account and couldn't find anything, I also called the bank and they told me I haven't deposited anything. A few days later my bank account was frozen due to a legal order. I got another call from the investigator and we set up a meeting in which he wanted to see the checks that were supposedly re deposited. I handed him 1 of them since I lost the other 2. That same day my account was unfrozen but all my money 498.07$ was taken out due to legal order, and a bunch of 99 Million $ Funds were held in my account activity. I called the bank and they told me they couldn't give me any information about that. A couple days later I got another call from the investigator telling me that the bank has confirmed the 3 checks were deposited from my phone number and that I should start telling the truth. I denied everything and was told that I should get ready for a check fraud charge. I called the bank once again confirming that there has not been any check deposits. That happened yesterday and I don't know how to proceed from here besides calling a lawyer and getting bank statements ready.

    Thank you for any advice

    I live in VA and I'm 21 years old

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    [NYC] Contractor's tools being held on a jobsite.

    Posted: 12 Jun 2020 12:44 PM PDT

    I am an independent contractor that was working on a project in NYC for a large institution/business. We were told two days before the stay at home order went into effect that it would be our last day on the site until the stay at home order was over.

    I left all of my personal tools and equipment (~$20,000) locked up at the site, not knowing at that point how long everything would take. Since then, the contract has been suspended indefinitely. I am attempting to retrieve my tools and equipment from the site because I am not based out of NYC and I may be starting another contract elsewhere soon. Those that hired me said that no one is allowed in the building and if I attempt to enter to retrieve my personal items the police will be called since I would be trespassing.

    What if any legal standing to I have to make them allow me to enter and retrieve my things?

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    My father[57M] is in control of the multiple credit cards under[24M] my name

    Posted: 12 Jun 2020 10:21 AM PDT

    By the time my[24M] brothers[28M, 20M] turned 18, my father[57] opened up credit cards for each of us under our names. He has opened up multiple in my name up to this point and is the only one with the login information to everyone's cards. My older brother's credit was destroyed during the 2008 recession when my dad used my brother's cards to help him deal with the poor economy. Yes, my dad has been the one making the credit cards payments, but he is also in control of what the cards are being spent on even though all of them are under each of our names. My mom[54] isn't even sure of how many cards have been opened up under her name because he is the only one with access to all of that information.

    I was able to gain access to one of the credit cards under my name because I had the physical card in my possession. However, there are at least 3 or 4 that I am not able to obtain because he has the physical cards and the information to the logins.

    My brothers, my mother and I have been trapped financially by my father with this situation. We are located in California.

    What are steps I can take in order to report my father for credit card fraud and make sure my own credit isn't ruined?

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    Parents want to take my scholarship money

    Posted: 12 Jun 2020 01:23 PM PDT

    I posted the other day that my parents wanted to take out some sort of "loan" in their name for me.

    Well my high school called me today and it turns out they completely lied to me. It wasn't a loan, but rather a scholarship of $1000 for me. It is from an outside organization and not affiliated with my college. My parents lied to me that it was a loan in their name so that it would look like they would be liable for the money.

    Anyways, the check is to be mailed to my mom's house (who is not allowed near me and my brother because she was arrested for child abuse). My dad spoke to me and said that she was going to use this money for herself as "repayment" for her raising me and my brother.

    That scholarship is meant to go to me for my college education so isn't it fraud for my mother to take my money and use it to buy herself stuff? Is there any way I can get this organization to possibly hold off on giving me the money until I actually get to college? Can I report my mom for fraud if she tries to use it on herself considering that she is not contributing to my education?

    Edit: I live in New Jersey and will be attending a private university in New York for my first year.

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    My Ex is stealing my Dog

    Posted: 12 Jun 2020 05:04 AM PDT

    My ex and I recently broke up and he took my dog and gave it to his parent's. I purchased the dog myself when we got him and he never paid me anything. We broke up ab a year ago for 3 months and i let him house the dog because where i was living i did not have space for him. During that time he got him fixed. Now we live together again and he's taken him saying that it's his. Do I have any standing to get him back? I only let him house him because it was best for him and now he's stolen him.

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    Legal to drain pond into a ditch? (SC)

    Posted: 12 Jun 2020 06:19 AM PDT

    We've had torrents of rain where I live for several weeks now. I have a house that is literally over a small pond which has been rising higher and higher, nearly to the point that it may come into the house within the next couple of weeks if this keeps up.

    The pond does not have a spillway, but located near a main road that has ditches. I want to know if it is legal to drain the pond down a few inches into the ditches in order to protect the house.

    I want to be clear that this is something that I inherited - I did not purchase or build the house in this manner and would not have done so.

    I don't want to be an asshole either and cause flooding on anyone's house - there is no house on these ditches (think interstate type road). I just want to understand the legalities.

    Thank you.

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    If I own a house that is not part of an HOA, can it at any point come to be subject to an HOA without me agreeing to it in writing?

    Posted: 11 Jun 2020 07:26 PM PDT

    We are shopping for a house in San Diego, and one of our most important preferences is that it not be subject to an HOA. My question is, once I own the house (with a mortgage), can an HOA be imposed on my house without my consent, or through coercive tactics? If so, how can this happen, and what precautions, if any, can I take to reduce the risk of this happening?

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