Legal Advice NYC: Condo made a new rule (within the last two months) to charge a $500 FEE to use the elevator to move-out. Doorman will not let the movers in if the fee is not paid. Any advice? |
- NYC: Condo made a new rule (within the last two months) to charge a $500 FEE to use the elevator to move-out. Doorman will not let the movers in if the fee is not paid. Any advice?
- Pittsburgh, PA. I think my neighbor just put up a “no parking to the corner” sign and painted the curb yellow himself.
- A hotel denied myself and my service dog access stating that my dog needed registration from a random scam site (that was posted on their wall??) and also documentation on MY disability?? Now, they won’t refund our deposit. California
- NJ - Landlord refuses to rent to unmarried couple with kids.
- [Alabama] How would one go about renaming a lake that sits entirely on our family's farm of many generations?
- I (22f) met a man (32) on a dating app in July 2019 and he's been harassing and stalking me ever since
- Signed a lease a week ago, today we found out there's an old lady living in the basement (NY)
- My paycheck bounced and my employer doesn't know when they'll be able to get me a new one. What can I do?
- My grandfather died before a will was made up, and my aunt who has control over his pension has yet to pay any of my grandma's bills even though she verbally agreed to it. Is this verbal agreement enough to help my grandma? (New York State)
- Auto dealer received the insurance check payoff after truck was totaled. I don't believe he was entitled to full amount due to us not owing that much. Help please!
- My spouse is in a rehab center that is threatening to baker act them for asking for a second opinion. I need to get this person out
- I essentially won the lottery, and my dad wants me to give him most of the money. Please advise.
- NYC - Roommate destroyed property, but after I moved out
- Long island NY: town using my back lot to dump fallen trees
- Will i go to jail if I go to the city court to reschedule a court date?
- A police officer erroneously issued me a ticket for a much more serious offense than what I'm actually guilty of, and I'm just now finding out two years later - WA
- [TN] I work two hourly, non-exempt jobs for the same employer. My employer says one of the jobs is not eligible for overtime.
- Biological Daughter is Being Abused by her Adopted Parents
- Mother stole grandmother’s identity and found out it was worse than she originally thought. This was the fourth victim my mother preyed on. What can be done?
- Sold car with handshake only, now I might go to jail
- My work told me I had a certain amount of sick time. I used that time and now they're telling me I didn't have it to begin with.
- Car was towed in visitor stall at my friend's place.
- Two Hyundai dealers told me they are not allowed to work on my issue anymore
- Can I have my neighboor sued for having his dog shit on my porch every day?
| Posted: 06 Aug 2020 07:14 PM PDT Live in New York City (NYC) in a condo in midtown Manhattan. I have my lease, and it specifically says there is a $500 move-out deposit which you get back if nothing is damaged, but nothing about a $500 fee. I found out this was a new rule instated in the last two months in the House Rules of the Condo. So now, they are charging $500 if you want to use the elevator to move out in addition to the deposit, which you will not get back. It is a FEE! Just crazy to me that they can do this... but I'm not sure I have a choice but to pay. I am on the 7th floor and its not feasible to use the stairs. Any advice? Kinda feel like I just have to pay... don't know what else to do. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 07 Aug 2020 05:22 AM PDT Little background, I grew up in TN and a bunch of my college friends went on to work for the department of transportation after graduation. So I myself am no civil engineer, but I've seen a lot of their work (Snapchat, etc) and talked to them about their work/standards of work. Now, present day, moved to PA several years ago and bought a house. I like my neighbors well enough, but they have always been annoying about parking (going as far as harassing me if they don't like some way that I parked). They live on the corner of a main road (no parking) and an alley where everyone parks and I, and many others, live. They have the typical yinzer attitude of, this spot on the street is mine, no one else can park here and put up cones/chairs to "block" the spot from anyone else. Beyond this, they also try to police where other people can park, putting up cones so no one parks within x feet of their door. Their door is not obstructed by a car parking in front of it. Yesterday when I was at work, a "no parking to the corner" sign was out up, not cemented into the ground, but latched onto a yellow concrete pillar that they put in before my time. What's more, they seem to have spray painted the curb yellow. Not cleanly painted on the top and the side, which is standard as far as I know, but roughly pained on top of the curb as if by a can of spray paint. What are my options here? This feels very illegal. While I don't want them to be punished, I also am sick of them asserting themselves to the neighborhood and preventing people from parking or harassing them if they park in a way they don't like. Thanks in advance for your advice. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 07 Aug 2020 01:24 AM PDT My boy and I decided to take Odin out to Venice beach for a birthday weekend out. We made a reservation at a hotel and arrived. I will admit that I accidentally did not disclose that Odin was with me. I'm waiting for his new "service dog" vest to come in (and have been using his mesh "in training" vest since it's summer here in Southern California and we live in the desert). I haven't been vesting him today as the ADA states under titles II and III that an SD does not have to be vested nor identified by gear. Well, when we arrived to the hotel, I told the receptionist that I had Odin and that he is a multi-purpose service dog. She told me that I needed documentation. I told her that there is no legal documentation necessary for service dogs in the US. She then pointed to some sort of documentation on the wall (that looked like it had come off some sort of scam site online because I have never seen it before even when I worked with a program in the beginning of his training and I refuse to use any sort of documentation for access because it hinders other legitimate teams who owner train which is perfectly acceptable). Anyways, I tried to inform her that according to the ADA, there is no legal registration and that she is allowed to ask me two questions which are: 1. Is that a service dog that mitigates a disability 2. What job or task are they trained to do? The law also states:
After we were told to leave, we were in the parking lot, trying to cancel our stay and they wouldn't refund us our money (over $300) and told us we could talk to the owner tomorrow morning. They also said if we didn't leave immediately that they would call the police and I told them please DO. I would LOVE to make a report. They then backpedaled and told us that we would have to talk to the owner and there wasn't anything they could do. I then sent them the articles straight from ADA.gov and cited where they broke the laws. They then told me that they could not accommodate me without: 1. Documentation on my disability (excuse me??!!!) 2. The animal being present. ( He was present. He was in a "cover" position by my side as we stood in front of the counter - I was wearing messenger style leash) We told her that he was there and that it was very illegal to ask for documentation about my disability but if it got us the room that I'd provide it. They then stopped contact with us. We called around and found out that they have "sister" hotels, but it doesn't seem like they have a "cooperation" attached to them, at least not one attached to their website. I'll be calling in the morning to speak to the owner and will be directing them to the ADA INFO line. But, does anybody know the specific law(s) they broke about asking me for documentation on my disabilities? I know it's illegal, but when I looked online, it seemed like the ADA pertained more to employment than just regular businesses. [link] [comments]  |
| NJ - Landlord refuses to rent to unmarried couple with kids. Posted: 07 Aug 2020 05:09 AM PDT Title. In NJ. We applied for a rental and the realtor we used corresponded with the landlord on our behalf. The landlord refused to rent to us, emailing to the realtor that we have two kids and are only dating. Would this fall under discrimination? Not looking to force anyone's hand. Obviously nobody wants to live under the thumb of a landlord like that. But just curious as to what my rights are here. Thank you. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 07 Aug 2020 09:10 AM PDT My family's farm has an 11-acre lake that I'll call Webster Pond. This land has been in my family for nearly a hundred years, and nobody knows who Webster is, when or why it was named that, or for that matter why it has a name at all*. Nevertheless, if you look at the county's GIS map and Google maps, they both show the pond and it's labeled as Webster's Pond. My father recently passed away, and as a tribute to him we'd like to have it renamed [Our name] Pond. It sits entirely within the boundaries of our farm, there are no divided parcels, it's not navigable or anything that would be used as a landmark in any way. This would just be for our own...amusement? Satisfaction? Obviously I realize we could just call it whatever we wanted among ourselves, but it would be sentimental to have it officially recognized under the name we want. Where do I start? *One thing that may be important is that the lake has a large spillway that flows into a creek that feeds a tributary of a major river (so it goes Webster Pond > Horse Branch > Mud Creek > Major River--made up names but they are all named bodies of water). So I guess it's possible that the pond was required to be named something because it does ultimately feed into that river. No idea if that's relevant. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 07 Aug 2020 07:15 AM PDT Location: USA This is going to be long, and also very painful to recount. I might have to cross post to r/legaladvice aswell So sometime in July 2019 I met a man on Plenty of Fish (first mistake). We began communicating through the app and on Snapchat, and would talk quite regularly. His age was listed as 32 years old and I was 22 at the time. After talking with him for months I decided, foolishly, to meet up with him at his house. For context, he lives about 2 hours north of me. The plan was to watch movies, spend the night and then I would leave in the morning. I told several friends where I was going and gave them the location of his place and his address. When I arrived and saw his house for the first time I was shocked. It was huge, I mean $500,000+ and new tech everywhere. I also saw he had weapons, which is not unusual for guys to have in this region (Midwest USA) Our first meeting went ok, we talked and I had some drinks. I started to get an uneasy feeling though. I had no idea what to attribute it to. He seemed nice and was obviously educated and well off. He suggested he works in websight development. Because of my uneasy feelings I did not have sex with him or engage with him sexually at all, though. An important note to add here is that I ordered a pizza for us and he said he'd like to cashapp me back for it. I have him my cashapp handle. A giant snow storm hit that night and my car was effectively trapped there at his place (on top of a steep hill) and the roads were really bad since he lives quite out in the country. The snow storm was sudden, because of this it was unsafe to drive home and had to stay another night. That whole next day when I was at his house I felt very very uneasy. He seemed very happy that I was staying and suggested multiple times that I just get my stuff and move in with him once the snow melts. He'd say "ohhh I love you 😍" nonchalantly. I was getting really nervous and looking for my next out. Once I left, on my 2 hour drive back home I began rationalizing the experience. Maybe he's just lonely? I dont understand how a young man obviously so well off was browsing a dating app and had chosen me?! I'm not a particularly pretty girl. I'm really average. Maybe I let It get to my head a bit and thought I was over reacting for feeling uneasy and he was quite nice to me. Nothing to be afraid of, right? Cut to 1 more hangout later and me undoubtedly in reality that something is not right here. I receive a text message from him. Keep in mind we had been communicating via Snapchat at that point. I never gave him my number. The contents of the message were along the lines of, a gif of a girl coughing and him accusing me of giving him mono. I never kissed him. He then sends me profile photos of an account I had made years ago on an app called Seeking Arrangement. It's a sugar baby app. It was a joke to me and I never actually used it. He got it in his head that I was a "prostitute" and that's when things get really dark. He starts sending me random cashapp payments in an attempt to "bid" on me. He is treating me at this point like I am an actual prostitute/sex worker and is oscillating between "I love you" and "you filthy dirty fucking whore" He also starts exhibiting signs that he's going into some sort of psychosis. He sends me audio recordings of me talking to him at his house saying there are voices in the background and I need to "explain myself" I'm freaking out at this point. I tell him to seek help and block his number. That's when I start getting calls. Hundreds of calls. From different burner numbers, calls from my area code. Calls with area codes from places I had lived previously. It was so bad I had to get a new physical phone and phone number because I had started to fear he could be tracking me. That's when he began messaging my friends, ex partners and even my MOTHER asking for information about me, where I am and how to contact me. He began sending emails to old email addresses I have no idea how he found. They'd start out as him asking me to get in touch because of "something important" and then turn really threatening, accusing me of "putting cameras in his house" "inviting people to his house and he could hear their voices in the background" and "high level espionage shit" He messages my ex partners threatening physical violence for "talking to me at the same time as him" and that I was his woman and we had a relationship. I was so scared of this man but had not gotten in contact with the police until last night when he showed up at my FRIENDS APARTMENT, citing get full name and demanding to see me WHILE I WAS THERE. We called the police, I have since filed an emergency order of protection against him and am waiting for it to be processed and get a call back (it's all online now, covid) I'm terrified. Some of his threatening texts state that he is going to make a mockery of me because he knows I can't afford the same type of legal protection as him. I've had to file police reports in the tri county area of where I live. I need an attorney, NOW! I'm in contact with several for a consultation. Which lawyers would be the best to help me in this situation? I know nothing about this I'm a young girl and I'm so new to all this and how this process works I'm terrified. If I get a 2 year order I'd protection, what if he's still obsessive over me once it expires? I'm loosing sleep. I'm fearing for my life. I also have screenshots of all his messages/threats to friends and family and screenshots of conversations with him where he is effectively admitting he's psychotic. How do I protect myself until the emergency order of protection processes?? [link] [comments]  |
| Signed a lease a week ago, today we found out there's an old lady living in the basement (NY) Posted: 07 Aug 2020 11:33 AM PDT Rockland County, NY. I signed a lease about one week ago for what was marketed as a house, we did the walk through and everything looked great. Only place we didn't see was the basement, we asked our future landlord about it and were told it's storage space and incredibly messy because of the current tenants. Because of that we were unable to see the space, but seeing as the rest of the home was perfect for us and storage wasn't our priority, we signed the lease the next day. Today, I asked again about the basement as one of my roommates wanted to see if the space would fit their musical gear and we were told that the basement is actually home to an older woman "who doesn't make much of a fuss" and wouldn't disturb our living there. The lease doesn't mention anything about shared living space, separate apartments, or other tenants. We were fully under the impression that we were paying for the entire house and at no time was there any sign that there were other tenants or a downstairs apartment. The landlord has offered to let us out of our lease because there are other's interested, however, due to COVID it has been an uphill battle finding living arrangements and we're afraid that if we don't take this we're not going to find another spot before it's too late. What are my best courses of action here? We don't want to give up the house because we really do need somewhere to live, but this isn't the space we agreed on paying for. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 07 Aug 2020 07:29 AM PDT Hi everybody! I wasn't sure which sub this question would be appropriate for, so if this is the wrong one I'm sorry and please let me know where else I should take this question. I work at a small, locally owned business in Michigan as just a basic-level employee making minimum wage plus tips. They are having trouble getting any help from the government during Covid and struggling financially. This morning I opened my banking app to find that my paycheck had bounced and I was over $100 negative. The app said the money was there yesterday so I paid my rent, but apparently it wasn't really there. They warned me this might happen the same day I deposited the check, but after I had already done so. I thought it went through since my account balance reflected that, which is why I went ahead and paid the rent with it. I managed to borrow enough to get my account back to zero, but I'm still stuck without a check. My employer said they don't know when they'll be able to pay it back, and I'm concerned now that my check coming in next week will bounce as well. Today marks week 3 that I haven't been paid for. I'm wondering if I should stop going in until I'm paid, but they might just fire me about it. If they do, I don't know how to make them give me the money I already earned. I have nothing new lined up and I have $0 in my account. What can I do, legally, to try and get my money back? Should I be contacting the Department of Labor? Google told me to demand in writing a specific date that they would get me my check by, but they just keep saying they don't know. And should I refuse to go in until I'm paid, or keep working and document the lost pay? I really like my job and the people at it, but I need to eat and I can't just work for free for the foreseeable future. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 07 Aug 2020 05:52 AM PDT My grandpa and grandma had given my grandpa's pension to my aunt to make the money last longer. The money was supposed to go to supporting my grandma until she passed too. However, it's been almost 2 months and none of the bills have been paid with that money. In order to give the pension to my aunt my grandma had to sign a paper saying she wouldn't go after my aunt for the pension. Does my grandma have any legal standing? I did have a look at the rules and the wiki, but admittedly not too close a look. I apologize if I broke a rule or this has already been posted. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 07 Aug 2020 10:46 AM PDT Location: Kentucky Back in March my bf and I found a truck we were interested in from a small individual owned dealership that does financing. Dealer was asking $8500 but we agreed on $8100 with $2800 down payment. When discussing the financing the dealer said that he would accept $225 a month for 36 months which is a 30% interest rate as we expected because he has horrible credit. We gave him the down payment and Bf and dealer signed the paperwork. Three months later someone hit the truck in a hit and run and totaled out the truck. Insurance sent the payoff check directly to the dealership in the amount of $6523. This is when I started suspecting thing were not right. I entered all the financial info into an amortization calculator and got the same payments as agreed upon. So, at the end of month 3 we would have owed $5015.53. Bf payed extra $25 a month so that bring the total of principle down to $4940.53. I asked Bf for a copy of the contract and/or financial agreement and he said that he never got one or signed one. That basically it was all verbal. The only thing we do have is the bill of sale, but the dealer wrote that we only paid $4500 for the truck because he said he wanted to do us a favor. I contacted the dealer about the insurance overpaying and wouldn't listen to anything I said. He said that he actually lost $800 on the whole deal but he would just cut his losses. I tried to explain to him that yes if we had paid the truck off over the 36 months that he would have made $2800 in interest but since it was paid off after month 3 he wasn't entitled to the interest that he would have made. After several attempts asking him to produce any paperwork on financing he said that the bill of sales is the contract/ financial agreement and that we committed tax fraud by putting a smaller amount. The dealer wrote out and signed the bill of sale, bf did not put a smaller amount, but he did sign and date it. The taxes have not been paid yet due to the courthouse shutting down the day after we purchased. I would like to settle this without lawyers but will if needed. So far, we are out $3550 on truck and I would just like the $1583 insurance overpaid. Can anyone tell me what if any laws dealer broke? Any help is appreciated. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 07 Aug 2020 07:07 AM PDT Located in Florida. I know my spouse very well, and she's been in a rehab center for the last 3 days or so. Long enough for her to tell me there's a nurse they're all afraid of because the nurse treats them like shit and if there's any negative reaction, she has them sent to somewhere not so appealing. She called me this morning to tell me that her doc wanted to baker act her, she then asked for a second opinion (fair enough); his response was that he'd baker act her for asking for a second opinion. She's scared and I'm scared for her. I know what it can seem like, but I know this woman, and I know her life because we've shared the last 5 years of it. This place is sketchy. I'm sorry for rambling but I need to know if I can get her out. What I can do As her spouse to have her taken out and put somewhere better if need be. Update(not much) Turns out the doctor she saw wasn't her doctor and was doing a residency there. She's speaking with her case manager and doctor that assured her she'd be discharged on the original date. She wasn't baker acted. I'm hoping that's that, but I'll leave the post up for a bit longer just in case something shady happens, and to pull from the resources I was provided here to help me report this center. Again, I'm very appreciative. [link] [comments]  |
| I essentially won the lottery, and my dad wants me to give him most of the money. Please advise. Posted: 07 Aug 2020 12:54 PM PDT To start, I live in Oregon and I am 22 years old. Live with my dad, always have, never could move out, my career never took off. I do odd jobs and gig economy and my income is about $1000/month. $500 of which I have to give my dad for rent and food, but fair enough. I can't afford a real apartment. The rest I save and spend as I please. I will add, my dad watches my bank account. He does it to make sure I'm saving money for a car and an apartment. I am 100% owner of my account, my dad can't access the money, but we have it set up so he receives a copy of the statements every month. Anyway I had invested into cryptocurrency a long time ago, back when it was cheap. And my dad knows about it. Well recently I sold part of my cryptocurrency and received $30,000. I have another $40,000 worth of cryptocurrency that I'm holding on to, haven't sold yet. So in total I won $70,000, of which $30,000 is a realized gain. That $30,000 was deposited into the account, and dad saw the transaction. He is now demanding that I set aside $10,000 for myself "because that is all I need", set aside enough to pay capital gains tax, and give him the rest of the US Dollars and Cryptocurrency. He says if I don't then I'm out of the house the first of next month and he won't accept any more of my $500/month rent. Please advise. [link] [comments]  |
| NYC - Roommate destroyed property, but after I moved out Posted: 07 Aug 2020 09:11 AM PDT I moved out of my apartment but left my sofa ($2,500) because I was making arrangements to hire movers to take it out in a week. My roommate then informed me (6 days later) that he hired people to move my sofa out and put it on the sidewalk. During this moving process, allegedly the sofa got stuck and it had to be cut it in half, completely destroying it. Do I have fair reason to take my roommate to small claims court? It's obviously my property, but was in the apartment a couple days after I moved out. [link] [comments]  |
| Long island NY: town using my back lot to dump fallen trees Posted: 07 Aug 2020 03:48 AM PDT I have a long property where the front of the property is in the village where I pay taxes and my back fence boarders a different village. Both villages are part of the same town but my village has their own highway department. The back fence boarders a street with a lot of dense vegetation and has a gate that leads to a clearing (14+ft from fence to the street and 10ft wide) for access that has been there since the 1950s. After the hurricane, the village department behind my house used a snow plow and loader to dump the tree limbs from the street into my clearing, effectively blocking easement. This is not the first time they have done this. The next day, the town (town does the clean up for other village) came by to mulch all the trees that fell but left the ones in my clearing. when I asked why they had not done the ones behind my house, I was told I was in a different village and not part of their responsibility. My local highway department won't go pick them up because the road they are on is not part of their scope. Yesterday I was forced to chop the trees myself and move them out of the clearing and closer to the road to open that entrance. Can the town legally dump limbs and trunks behind my house since the property is between the fence/gate and the street? Since the road is part of that village, do they have a responsibility to clean that area? Do I have a right to have an exit / entrance in the back of my house or should I keep quiet about the fact I have / use it and just deal with them dumping things here? It seems every time they resurface the road or need to clean up a mess, they dump the debris right in my clearing and I'm sick of it. Edit: was asked to add a picture. Sorry its a picture of the computer screen. we still have no internet. Note that there is a gate between the clearing and the backyard. https://i.imgur.com/yWrqfvF.jpg [link] [comments]  |
| Will i go to jail if I go to the city court to reschedule a court date? Posted: 07 Aug 2020 08:22 AM PDT A court paper with a court date on Jul 27th was sent to my parent's house (I no longer live there) while they were in California for a couple of months. I missed the court fate because they just got back Wednesday. I called the city court (misdemeanor charge) and they said that I have to go to the court in person to talk to them about it. Will i be arrested if I go in person or should they be able to reschedule? I don't have any cash on me right now to pay a fine either. I will in a couple of days though. If i can't pay the fine but go anyway will I be arrested or can I pay it later? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 06 Aug 2020 09:53 PM PDT I'm a California resident but was briefly visiting Seattle two years ago when I rear-ended someone in my rental car. The person in the car in front of me called the cops, the cop comes by and I can't immediately find my valid CA license. Cop wasn't waiting even 5min to let me find it. He's like, whatever, here's a ticket for "Failure to Avoid a Collision" for rear-ending this dude, here's a ticket for "Expired or No License" because you couldn't find your license in time (by that point I had found my license and had it in hand). I'm annoyed, but whatever. I felt that didn't have any choice but to pay the ticket given that I was an out-of-towner, so I did. Two years later, I'm undergoing a driving background check to be able to drive the company car, and I failed. It's now come to my attention that "Expired or No License" doesn't actually mean that you couldn't present your license, but rather that you didn't have one at all, as in, you were cited for driving without a valid license. The ticket I should have received was "Failure to Display License", which is much less serious, and accurately reflects someone having a valid license but they can't find the license in time to show them. How can I resolve this issue after I've paid the ticket and after so much time has passed? I have my driving record which does not show my license as having been suspended at the time, surely they can look this up themselves as well? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 07 Aug 2020 04:31 AM PDT I work 25 hours/week in one hourly non-exempt position and 15 hours/week in another, which makes up my 40 hour work week. The 15 hour/week job is marked as "not eligible for overtime pay" on my time card whenever I clock in for it. I asked why this was, and they told me it's because the two jobs are treated separately. The 25 hour/week job is the only one eligible. Is this legal? From my research, the hours should be added together and any hours over 40 should be paid at a weighted overtime rate. But maybe I'm missing something. [link] [comments]  |
| Biological Daughter is Being Abused by her Adopted Parents Posted: 07 Aug 2020 01:53 AM PDT This situation is pretty messed up, I'll warn you now. Its a long one, so hold on. I gave my daughter (we'll call her Lily) up for adoption when she was two years old about five years ago (she is seven now). I entrusted her with her Aunt and Uncle on her biological father's side (We'll call them Joe and Jackie) as they had helped me a lot when I first had Lily and because Jackie could not have children of her own. I genuinely thought that they were great people and was so grateful that they were willing to help me. We agreed to an open adoption, and it worked out for about a year and a half. I was very active still in Lily's life and she knew that I was her mother and that she had been adopted. We were all very up front and honest with her about the situation. After about a year and a half, things got a bit complicated and I was cut out of Lily's life completely. My mother was still in contact with her, but I was no longer allowed to speak to or see her, and I got no updates. I was no longer in the picture. I slowly accepted this as fact and began to move on with my own life. I was teased a handful of times with the opportunity to speak with her, but nothing ever came of it and I always just ended up disappointed. I heard they had moved to a different state about 10 months ago and that had been the first update in years. This week, Lily flew back to our homestate to visit with some of Joe's family. During this visit, she saw my mother and spewed a ton of information to her. Lily's arm had been broken a month earlier, and my mother was under the impression that she had fallen from the trampoline and broken it. Lily told my mom that actually, Jackie had broken it while punishing her for accidentally letting the dogs out of the house. Along with that, Lily told my mom about a string of other instances of abuse, dating all the way back to when I first gave her up for adoption. Some of these include being held by the neck against the wall, repeatedly hit in the face (both open and closed hand), some instances of sexual abuse, and a lot of mental and emotional abuse. All of the abuse was carried out by Jackie, but Joe knew it was going on the entire time and failed to report it to anybody. When Lily's arm was broken, it took Joe almost a week to make a police report, only after his friends pressured him to do so. My mother also learned that Joe and Jackie were pulled over for driving drunk with Lily in the backseat and Joe was put on a two year probation. My mother has made a report with DCF and Lily's biological father has made one too, along with a police report. There is also a criminal case and an abuse report open in the state they moved to 10 months ago. So far, everyone has pretty much been kept in the dark. Currently, she is staying with Joe's mother and grandmother, and has been forced to talk to Jackie everyday since she started her visit. Jackie has been trying to convince Lily to "stop exaggerating" and tell everyone that the abuse never happened. She is gaslighting Lily and trying to warp her mind while also making Lily blame herself for everything that is going on. That's a lot of shit to put on a seven year old. Lily has openly stated that she does not feel safe where she is now or at home with Joe and Jackie, and has been very vocal that she wants to live with my mother. Tonight we learned that Joe had flown down to our homestate to bring Lily back home, and has told her numerous times that Jackie will be there when she gets back. We know that Joe is on probation and is not supposed to leave the state without permission, which my mother is sure he does not have (she has been in contact with his PO). Jackie has tried to smother Lily twice (that we know of) so we are all very concerned for her life at this point. Will she be removed and placed into temporary custody with someone? How seriously do DCF agents take the word of a seven year old? Will something be done considering there are two different child abuse investigations open in two different states? Is there anything else we should be doing? My mother's house is likely the best place for her currently, out of everybody involved. My 8 year old little sister lives there, my mother and her husband both have great jobs, and there is plenty of room for Lily at the house. Not to mention that Lily and my mother have a very established connection at this point. I have not slept since I found out, and I feel completely helpless. I am absolutely terrified that something worse will happen to her if we don't get her out. This has always been my worst fear. Edit to add: Our homestate is Florida, they currently live in Colorado [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 07 Aug 2020 08:55 AM PDT Back in June I reported my mother for taking advantage of my grandmother when I found out. She talked my grandmother into becoming power of attorney and moved my grandmother in after my grandfather passed. She opened loans, tried for a mortgage, opened credit cards, withdrew from my grandmother's checking accounts, and more all without my grandmother's knowledge. The credit cards and loans were never paid off and went to collections. The debt was around $9,000-10,000. I helped her file a report online with the FTC. I made copies and letters for her to mail to any business involved and to take to the police station. My grandmother refused to press charges, refused a restraining order against my mother for harassment despite everyone involved saying she should, and talked the aging agency that got involved into not pressing it any farther once they recovered only $3,000 of the money back. Debt collectors have been harassing her still despite having the identity theft report and are trying to scare her into paying those debts. I found out today due to a collector telling her to contact me and see if I'll loan her money to pay them or they'll take her to court and get the money anyway. I told her it's a scare tactic and that I won't give her money. She can't afford much now that my mother ruined her so she offered to pay them smaller monthly payments and they refused. I told her she should of never said she would pay or accept the debt because she has the report to prove it was identity theft but she did so anyways. Her reason was that she already got my mother into enough trouble and she hopes that maybe my mother will forgive her(yes, I told her it should be the other way around). Since I reported it all back in June she's found out the identity theft was a lot worse than she thought but still refuses to press charges as she feels she doesn't have the heart to do so. My mother harasses her weekly and despite me blocking her on my grandmother's phone when asked my grandmother turns around and unblocks her in hopes to build a relationship with her again. Debt collectors call every day, she found out there's more accounts falsely opened, her savings is very low and she's always stressed about how she'll continue living off her fixed income. I'm at my wits end, I keep getting calls from her almost daily crying about this and I always suggest she press charges but she won't. Im very vocal about how I feel my mother deserves to be charged as I had to file a report in September 2018, at the time of filing I had no clue it was my own mother that stole my identity. When I found out I chickened out of pressing charges as mine was less than $2,000 and the businesses all dropped the debt once they seen the report. I had no clue I wasn't the first victim she did this too. I'm guessing there isn't anything that can be done to end this because she won't press charges herself? If something can be done who do I need to contact? Location: PA, USA [link] [comments]  |
| Sold car with handshake only, now I might go to jail Posted: 07 Aug 2020 07:07 AM PDT Yup, sold (well I gave it to him cause they needed a car) my beloved PT Cruiser with only a handshake, it was a friend of a friend. We went like a week later trying to register it in his name, there was some trouble with the paperwork (his license). I dont remember, anyway, the car was still in my name. Sooo, yesterday Transportation called me telling me, I have to pay for the damage on a bridge ($45000). Wait, What? And if i don't start paying soon, they will revoke my license. I work with clearance for the DoD, have been for 19 years, I have to have a clear record. Or I loose my job. I found the guy on FB and told him. He said, a friend of his son stole the car and crashed it. And its not his fault. Im at a loss right now, plus im german Englisch is not my first language. So this is so overwhelming. Can someone please help, or do I just figure out how to start paying for the bridge? EDIT: WA [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 07 Aug 2020 05:29 AM PDT Massachusetts resident and Massachusetts employee. When Covid happened, our company gave everybody an extra week of time off, to be used for family stuff because schools and daycare closed down. I was using it as needed and it was working well. Last week I got an unprompted email from the manager that handles time entry and all things Kronos. It was a screen snippet of an excel spreadsheet that stated I had 5 hours of it left. I then confirmed with her that was accurate through an email chain. I was told multiple times I had 5 hours left. I then used those hours . Today I receive another email from a different manager saying I'm over my limit by 4 hours and I have to change that time off to something else. I sent her the email chain, assuming that would immediately fix the issue. It did not. They're insisting i change them with more strongly worded emails and an increasing amount CC's for more people on our emails. Am I in danger of being fired here? Not sure if this is r/la material but I didn't know where else to ask. Edit: I am adamantly (politely) refusing to change the hours [link] [comments]  |
| Car was towed in visitor stall at my friend's place. Posted: 07 Aug 2020 05:31 AM PDT This is my first time getting my car towed in a long time, and I suspect it was done illegally. I come over to my friend's apartment regularly, and this is the first time I have gotten towed out of the visitor stall. There is a sign that states there is a 4-hour limit. Today I arrived around 5:27 PM, and apparently my car was towed at exactly 8:30 PM, according to the tow company's records. I can prove through text messages on both my and my friends phone that I arrived no earlier than 5:27 PM. As well as receipts from McDonald's nearby my friend's place that show I bought a coffee right before that. My car was definitely parked in a guest parking stall, marked with big letters VISITOR. It did not obstruct any other cars as well. What are my rights as the car owner? I was within the time limit, and did not break any rules or cause any sort of reason for complaint. [link] [comments]  |
| Two Hyundai dealers told me they are not allowed to work on my issue anymore Posted: 07 Aug 2020 10:23 AM PDT So here's the issue I have. I have a 2009 Hyundai Genesis that has a problem with an EGR sensor not being reset if the ECU becomes reset. It's happened to me 3 times in the last 2 years, 2 times this year each time warranting a $300 charge from the dealer because of the over-complicated drive cycle needed to reset that one sensor. I understand that an active EGR sensor is not needed to pass smog in every state, but here in California, it is. This last time, the end of July this year, I took the car to the dealer in my area for the same issue and I was told that Hyundai doesn't allow them to work on this issue anymore because "Too many customers are coming in for the same issue and it takes too long to fix it." I was told by the guy working there that they also turned away 2 other customers for the same issue. So I called a dealer in a neighboring area and they tell me the same, that they are not allowed by Hyundai to work on that issue anymore. I'm currently gathering information on how many other Genesis owners for the same model years are having the same issues, model years '09-'14. Currently, there is no recall on this issue. Do I have a means for a class action lawsuit? [link] [comments]  |
| Can I have my neighboor sued for having his dog shit on my porch every day? Posted: 07 Aug 2020 10:23 AM PDT |
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