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    Legal Advice Can I (a minor) use the embassy to get home? (USA)

    Legal Advice Can I (a minor) use the embassy to get home? (USA)


    Can I (a minor) use the embassy to get home? (USA)

    Posted: 31 Dec 2020 08:06 AM PST

    Hello I'm 16 and from California, I came to Ghana on January 9th with my mom, she left about a week in and left me here telling me I'm gonna be staying here for a short time. It's been almost a year and still my parents wont tell me when nor allow me to come home. I'm staying with ""family friends"" here in Ghana, People I never knew until 12 months ago. My best buddy who's been getting me through these hard times and his parents told me that I could just go to the US Embassy and they will help me get home, now my friends parents are offering to pay for my ticket home. Could this work? I don't have my visa or passport on me, I believe they would be in the hands of the embassy I'm not sure. Either way, would I need that or could I just buy the ticket and the Embassy will do the rest? any help?

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    Am I going to jail? (VA,USA)

    Posted: 30 Dec 2020 08:22 PM PST

    Soooo I'm a restaurant server. A couple months back, a guest of ours caused a lot of trouble about not wearing a mask and was asked to leave. I stood between him and my boss so that he wouldn't swing his mask at her again. (He shoved it in her face) I didn't say anything or touch him in any way. However, a couple weeks have passed and today I was given a document with charges of simple assault and assault and battery. It's been requested that I report to a precinct to "sign and accept service of this document." Pictures can be provided. What can I expect when I show up there?

    Thanks, everyone. I really appreciate all the advice. Hopefully this just goes away after doing what I have to do. Cannot believe all this is happening because of an anti masker. I'll update when this is all over.

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    Employer deducted money as GIFT for boss out of my paycheck

    Posted: 31 Dec 2020 07:16 AM PST

    Currently employed in Massachusetts. Each year since I started at my current company they have deducted between $10-15 as a GIFT every Christmas for the owners present. We are a medium sized business that employs between 100-200 people and as far as I know everyone gets this deduction and no one knows about it until it happens. I'm sure a majority of people would be OK with this anyways, but I feel like employees should have at least have a choice in the matter. I understand it's a miniscule amount, but much of the staff are the paycheck to paycheck type of person. Is this at all legal, or am I overreacting?

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    Update: Vermont - Can I get legal custody of a baby if I'm not one of the parents? My drug addicted sister just gave birth.

    Posted: 30 Dec 2020 10:11 PM PST

    This is an update to my post here

    Last week I was contacted by a social worker. My niece is in custody and care of the state. I don't know the details because I'm not a party in the case but I do know there was a report from someone (no idea who) which led to my niece being take into custody of the state (no idea what the report was for). I was also contacted by the police but I told them I haven't seen my sister or my niece since she was born. The police are looking for my sister to arrest her based on the report that was made. I was contacted by the social worker because I'm on record as a relative due to my compliant when my niece was born. They are doing to checks to see if I'm suitable as a placement. I intend to follow their guidelines and do it if I can. So I'm waiting for all of that to be sorted out.

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    Can I (22 F FL) undo my past mistakes and get rid of a cyber stalker? I'm ashamed of my past, but now I'm terrified too.

    Posted: 31 Dec 2020 10:15 AM PST

    Without giving away too many details that might potentially identify me, I started posting risqué pictures of myself when I was 18 years old, without showing my face, for fun. Or attention or validation, not sure really. Anyways, someone contacted me saying I could make a lot of money and even more if I showed my face. Being a broke naive college student who had no way of paying for her tuition and didn't want to take out loans, I took the bait. I made some money for a year or so before realizing I hated it and it wasn't for me.

    Fast forward to two-ish years ago and my pictures are still popping up everywhere. People are catfishing as me, some are even making money off of my photos. I did what I could to get them taken down but as they say, the internet really is forever. The problems really started when someone who claimed to be from my hometown identified me and started threatening me. He basically said I rejected him in high school and now he's getting his revenge.

    Fast forward to today, I assume this same person is posting my pictures everywhere and including my first and last name, all social media handles (which I have since shut down), and details about where I grew up and went to high school, etc. They've also reached out to my mom and boyfriend on instagram. I genuinely feel like this person won't stop until they ruin my life completely and it's getting really close. I don't know what to do.

    I've gone to the police and was told that it's my fault, I put the pictures out there, the person is using anonymous handles, nothing they can do. Which I do get, I did do this to myself. I know this. I was young and stupid and would do anything to take it back. But there has to be something I can do.

    Most recently before I shut down my instagram, I received a message from someone saying they know the current city I live in and what school I go to. (I've moved twice since this). So on top of the anxiety, I'm now scared as well.

    TLDR: I sold nudes online when I was 18 before taking them all down a year later after hating it. Someone I apparently knew in high school has all of these pictures and is using them to harass me, my friends and family. The police are no help. I don't have any clue who's doing it and the pictures pop up faster than I can take them down. Please help.

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    My friends wife asked for a divorce and then took all of their savings out and put the money in her personal account. Roughly $20k. Can she do this when they’re going to be divorcing?

    Posted: 31 Dec 2020 08:16 AM PST

    (AZ and CA) My daughter's mother is not allowed to bring any court cases against me by court order but she's filed another case in court anyways

    Posted: 31 Dec 2020 10:22 AM PST

    My daughter just turned two. She was born drug-dependant because my ex-girlfriend used during her pregnancy. I had no idea my ex-girlfriend was even pregnant. The authorities had begun working on terminating her parental rights as soon as my daughter was born. I passed all their checks and was given custody and her rights were terminated.

    For 12 months after me getting custody there was radio silence from my ex-girlfriend. In January she filed for custody and child support from me. It was dismissed pretty quickly since she has no parental rights. But over the last 11 months she has filed different cases and lawsuits against me repeatedly, with different wording or in different jurisdictions but always wanting custody, visits or money. Some went to court before they were tossed. Last month a judge did a court order saying she is not allowed to sue me or bring a case against me for any reason.

    On Tuesday I was served with papers for another court case from her. This one was filed in California. All the others were in Arizona where we live. This time she has a lawyer. The papers mention how she is one year sober and has been deprived of her child but they don't mention that her rights are terminated or she can't bring cases against me. Neither of the lawyers who helped me before will take this case because she owes over $10,000 in my legal fees but hasn't paid anything. Can I tell her lawyer she broke the order? Or the judge who made it? I'm sick and tired of having to hire a lawyer, take time off work and deal with childcare arrangements because of having to go to court. I'm not even sure I'll be able to find a lawyer to help me with this though I'm trying to.

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    I (52 M) am becoming more enmeshed in my former professor's (82 M) life and wellbeing due to his needs during the pandemic, as is his girlfriend (92 F) I'm concerned about multiple legal issues.

    Posted: 30 Dec 2020 05:46 PM PST

    There's a bit of backstory, I'll be as concise as possible. A good friend, who is also a former professor of mine from college, is currently living in an apartment in Midtown Manhattan with his girlfriend. The professor is 82 M, and his girlfriend is 92 F. Since he relocated to her place in April 2020 (his own apartment is basically un-lived-in at present, an apartment in the east village,) he has not left the apartment except for 2 occasions, both checkups with his doctor. Since April, they have relied on me to order weekly groceries, provisions, anything from Amazon to be delivered / shipped to them. It takes 2-3 hours a week because they're rather fussy and I have to track what isn't available, etc. All the while, I've been deeply concerned about their welfare, health, and the fact that they are more or less stranded in the apartment, with no family in New York, virtually no family at all (they are both unmarried, neither have children, neither have any plans for their own old age or long term care.)

    Bill (not his real name) has been telling me that he's waiting for the vaccine in order to do ANYTHING next, so I've been more or less also waiting for this vaccine before we discuss anything about what happens next with / to him. It's hard now to imagine that they both return to their previous life as they have grown quite dependent on each other. They have also grown completely dependent on me. I should explain that I live 3 states away (a 3 and a half hour car drive away from them, in GOOD traffic) so all / anything that I can do to help them has to be done over the phone. Bill has a cell phone but is computer illiterate. Betty (not her real name) is computer literate and has a computer, but has grown very reluctant to use it lately.

    Bill brought up two issues in his last phone call that concern me. First, he said that Betty has expressed that she needs to make changes to her will but that she's becoming reluctant to talk about it or do anything about it. This could have very real world implications for Bill if she were to pass away as he would most likely need to leave her apartment and go back to his place. They have spoken recently (according to him) about his permanently leaving his apartment and him moving into her place. Now, he has lived in this rent-controlled place since the late 1960s, so the process of moving out of it will be rather epic. I don't know if he quite understands this. For my involvement in all this, I'm growing concerned as well because I am paying for everything with my credit cards, and right now, for instance, they have an outstanding bill of approximately $1,700.00 - Bill says a check is waiting for me, but they are afraid to leave the apartment to go to the post box. As you can see, this is a completely untenable situation - no one has ever run up so much money owed to me before without SOME kind of plan to get me paid back.

    As you can see there are many, many concerns here (my fronting money for their living expenses, what their legal statuses are as a couple sharing a place together, how they will care for themselves / each other as they are in increasingly older years.) It's much, much more than I feel equipped to handle. I am due to start a new job next week as a manager at a new company, I also run a business on the side, own a home of my own 3 states away, so I worry about the level of what I can do here. With all this in mind, what legally should I be doing that would best help Bill and Betty take care of themselves as best they can, and also make sure that I'm receiving help to help them? In other words, I want to make sure that I don't end up in a situation where we're not prepared for major decisions because none of us made some very hard decisions earlier. I would really appreciate any thoughts that you may have about what I should do now.

    TLDR: An elderly couple that I am helping to support are growing increasingly dependent on a long-distance support system and have few legal and financial plans in place for their own welfare and I need to know what I should do legally to help them and myself.

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    (CA) Landlord missed 21 day window to give info on security deposit, but now claiming I owe them money. What is the best way to proceed?

    Posted: 31 Dec 2020 06:28 AM PST

    My previous landlord never sent me my security deposit or any information about damages for 40 days, so I reached out and asked about it. They claimed that I owe around $200, on top of a $700 security deposit they are keeping. I've read online that a landlord in CA is required to give a statement of damages within 21 days of returning property. Can I ignore this debt? Should I be proactive in contesting this? What is the best way to proceed?

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    Someone attempted to rape me in the US.

    Posted: 31 Dec 2020 10:20 AM PST

    I am from a foreign country, someone I trusted asked me to go to the US for a short trip, in which I went and while on this trip the person pinned me down and began sexually assaulting me by sucking my breasts and then attempting to rape me. I was also threatened that if I made noise that they would hurt me and they covered my mouth. It stopped when they panicked because I had a panic attack and had trouble breathing. My country was not able to help because it was committed outside of its jurisdiction. I reported this to the US authorities but they said they will move forward when I visit again. What can I expect the charges to be against the person? Will I need a lawyer? I have recordings of the person apologizing and other times admitting to it. Can I present this as evidence? I am female and in my early twenties.

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    Can I block off my driveway from being used as a turn around?

    Posted: 31 Dec 2020 10:11 AM PST

    I'm tired of people destroying my driveway and falling into my ditch. Can I block off my driveway with wooden poles and cinder blocks?

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    (US CA) Can I legally evict my tenant if they did not use rental assistance funds to pay rent?

    Posted: 31 Dec 2020 12:12 PM PST

    Without getting into too many details, I was working with one of my tenants on paying their back rent through the assistance available through LA County. They were approved for three months of back rent, totaling about $8,500.

    This money was supposed to be paid directly to me, instead it appears to have been paid to the tenant who is refusing to hand the money over to me. LA County has not gotten back to me as to why the money went to the tenant instead of the property owner, and I'm kind of stuck waiting for them. I am not sure if they will be able to claw back the funds distributed, or if the tenant will be sued, but at the end of the day, I didn't get the money owed.

    This tenant's lease expires today, but they show no signs of moving out. I served a 60 day vacate notice in October, but there are local and state moratoriums on evictions due to non-payment, so I am confused about whether or not I can legally start the eviction process. Their lease was never going to be renewed because I have been planning to make renovations to the property for a couple of years now. It's a 120 year old house that hasn't been updated in 40 years and needs some very extensive work.

    Honestly, I just want them out of my house so I can fix it, and if this means I lose $8,500 for the privilege to evict them, I'm fine with that.

    Edit: The deleted comment below says I am a greedy POS, which is an example of why I selectively left out some details. Did you know that in order to receive those three months of missed rent, I had to agree with LA county to not charge the tenant for the other 6 months of back rent they missed? No, you didn't because you think landlord = evil and we're all just trying to make money hand over fist. Oh and for that greed part, the mortgage is $2500, the rent is $2800 with the $300/month difference going to the (now fired) property management firm that is supposed to be dealing with this, not me. This means that over the past 9 months, I've paid that $2800 a month, and the tenant has paid nothing. Please tell me how greedy I am again. 🙄

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    HOA president is telling me to do my dishes

    Posted: 31 Dec 2020 12:59 PM PST

    For a little setup, the company I work for owns a unit in a condo building and they rent it to me. Utilities and rent come right of my paycheck — kind of a nice setup. However, my "lease" is just a generic document that doesn't highlight all the intricacies of the rules of my building (which are different for "owners" and "renters" ... I'm by far the youngest person in my building; it's mostly full of geriatric busybodies who come up with/change new rules every month at the HOA meeting).

    Earlier this week, the gas went out in my condo building while I was out of town for Christmas. The HOA president, who is not my landlord but is the go-to goon who is in everybody's business and more or less looks after the place, came into my unit to "check the thermostat" and turned the faucets on so the pipes wouldn't freeze. He did call me and tell me what he was going to do before he entered and didn't really "ask" per se, but whatever.

    Apparently, he also didn't like the state my unit was in cleanliness-wise. Sure, it's a little messy — I had some dishes in the sink, an empty food container on the coffee table, and I needed to take the trash out (he had also without warning canceled the recycling pickup last week, so it was a little stacked up). But it was far from like, being a health hazard or those pictures you see online where you're like "OMG how do you live in that filth?" I know he also went in my bedroom because I shut the door when I left and when I returned it was open.

    So the next day I get an angry email from essentially my land lady, the 80-year-old woman who works for my company as a secretary and handles the housing, etc. She says she was "shocked" at the mess (again, a couple pots in the sink and a few things on the counter, definitely not squalor) and that I need to do the dishes and take out the trash and vacuum and fix a thing that broke in the bathroom. Apparently the HOA prez tattled on me at best and was taking pictures and showing them off to her at worst.

    I know I needed to pick up the place and I have, but now I'm upset that in a pandemic, where I'm a depressed, single dude inside my house all day every day, that some bozo who thinks he's king of the castle is coming into my unit, snooping around, and setting standards for cleanliness. Essentially, my question is: how much do I have to obey these people? This also extends to when he calls me randomly at 8 a.m. telling me I need to move my car because the Bobcat is out plowing snow in the parking lot (I work nights so I'm usually asleep at these times). I'm trying to find a new place but in the interim, how much trouble can I get in if I don't bend to the HOA president's every whim? This is in Colorado. Thank you.

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    Year after year, my bank massively overcharges my escrow account.

    Posted: 31 Dec 2020 08:04 AM PST

    New Hampshire, USA

    This is a bit of a long story, so, sorry ahead of time and thanks to any and all who stick with me.

    I own a single piece of land with a home, that is actually split between two different towns. As such, I owe taxes to both towns. The land is NOT equally divided. Let's say 95% of my land is in one town and only 5% in the other (that's just a guess.) So, I owe $3,000.00 twice a year to one town, and only $150.00 twice a year to the other. Every year, like clockwork, my mortgage absolutely skyrockets because my bank mistakenly believes I owe the $3,000.00 to both towns. Essentially doubling my escrow. Whereas my escrow account should be at about $6,300.00 yearly, it's now at $12,000.00. Getting them to correct this issue is normally like pulling teeth, but this year is different, it would seem. They are claiming they actually paid $3,000.00 to both towns last year, which is false. I've contacted the town in which I owe $300.00 to, and they confirm that is exactly what was paid (not thousands of dollars as my bank claims.) A brief search of this company shows many, many people have issues with them and you tend to see the word "fraud" thrown around a lot. I'm scared.

    I don't have the money to pay what they're telling me I have to. Can they just make my mortgage whatever they want? Do I have to pay what I don't owe? What can I do? All attempts to explain this to them is met with a robot-like response claiming I'm incorrect.

    P.S. I'm unsure if this is real estate law or tax law. I went with real estate.

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    A family member of mine on SSI received $100k in person injury lawsuits this year. She's afraid she will have to pay back all her SSI, food stamps, medical care covered by Medicaid if she reports it?

    Posted: 31 Dec 2020 01:25 PM PST

    The money was used to pay debts, buy herself a new vehicle, as well as make her living space more disabled-friendly. Most of this can be back up through work orders/receipts. The money came in the form of 3 personal injury cases based around an accident she had ~7 years ago.

    She's afraid if she reports this (as she would normally not do her taxes or report income since it's fixed) that she will be required to payback all her SSI/Medicaid/food stamp benefits she received over the year as well as be stuck with a hefty tax bill she will be unable to pay.

    Can anyone give insight in what happens in this situation? The accident happened in MO but she currently lives in CO.

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    (MO) Me and my co-workers got fired for speaking to police about an investigation into my manager/an incident at work

    Posted: 30 Dec 2020 06:21 PM PST

    My inquiry is about employment law and possibly criminal law but I am not sure. Back before the pandemic sent everyone home there was an incident at my work. My manager was the victim of a racist crime. Another co-worker was named as a person of interest by the police but then my manager got arrested for setting up the crime herself and lying about it. After her arrest there was a memo telling us not to talk to the police under any circumstances because it would interfere with the internal investigation into the incident and the police are not privy to company business. The police contacted me to give an interview and I talked to them about what I witnessed. I was told to expect to be called to testify at my manager's trial. I don't know how exactly my company found out but me and my co-workers who talked to the police got fired. I was fired for insubordination for not following the memo and I had 5 business days to drop off my company laptop at the office. The only people who were fired were the ones who gave the police an interview and we were all fired over the phone. Do we have a case for illegal termination? I thought it was illegal to stop witnesses from giving an interview if asked by the police.

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    My fiance's dad is stalking us, what can we do?

    Posted: 31 Dec 2020 10:17 AM PST

    My fiance and his dad (let's just call him J) do not have a good relationship and he recently decided he didn't want to have a relationship with J anymore. Despite several attempts to get him to stop, J continues to repeatedly call and text him, and he has now resorted to contacting my family members on Facebook (none of whom he has ever met or spoken to before) to try to get them to talk to him, and showing up at our residence unannounced. We have now asked him multiple times to stop contacting us and to stop contacting my family members. His response was that nobody can tell him who he can and can't talk to, and he'll continue to do it if he wants to.

    We have since blocked him on Facebook, and so has my family.

    Can we/should we file for some sort of No-Contact Order? We are both US residents (we live in the Midwest). We've saved the text messages we've gotten, so we do have evidence.

    Additional context: This has been going on for a few months at this point. Blatantly ignoring him does not seem to work.

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    (Wa) A neighbor's couchsurfer broke out 3 of the windows of my car. After initially agreeing to pay for the repair the neighbor since has said he will only pay half which because of how hard it will be to find and collect from his guest who fled that night.

    Posted: 31 Dec 2020 12:28 PM PST

    First time posting here so mea culpas for any following flaws.

    I've been having long term noise issues since they moved in last summer but being able to close my windows and paying too much for noise canceling headphones was making it at least tolerable till this month when the amount of verbal noise and fighting spiked and I was turning the volume on my tv up to hear over but keeping it low enough not to have it spiral into a tit for tat volume war.

    Considering all the prior neighbors that have lived below me I thought I was being quiet (and confirmed after by most appearances I was) until just after another fight I was surprised with pounding on my door from the couchsurfer that I'd never seen before demanding that I was too loud, and when I told him I wasn't he responded my going out to his car and blasting his stereo for long enough I broke out the phones and went about my day. Because of that and more fighting I went back to wearing noise canceling headphones whenever they "entertained", but after a particularly loud tv staying on after a gathering I ended up banging on their door at 1am to get some sleep.

    A few days after that I took a break from wearing the headphones for dinner during another yelling session below for maybe about 20 minutes before putting them back on playing the game I was using to distract myself from the noise when I heard a loud muffled sound, then a different neighbor knocked on my door and told me of the damage. The couchsurfer wasn't seen breaking the window but was confronted by a different neighbor seconds after near my car and by the time the police came from my call he had ran away (note: he apparently left his things and snuck back to get only his car two days later without saying anything to his friend/cousin).

    While the police were take the report the neighbor below finally came out of his apartment and said he'd been sleeping and wasn't involved but agreed to pay and asked for estimates, which I did but then he started dragging his feet and then after a couple of days said he would only pay half because of how hard it would be to find and collect from his cousin.

    Would I be on solid enough grounds to win in small claims court if I were to file to collect repairs, and since my landlord has shown little interest, could I do anything about the noise? Even though my town doesn't list decibel levels I got a meter so I have measurements surpassing the states recommended levels.

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    Am I able to buy the copyright of my commissioned character art from the artist over Email?

    Posted: 31 Dec 2020 11:37 AM PST

    I commissioned and artist to create a picture of a character I've had in my head for a while now. I was thinking about creating shirts,hats or other merchandise but read I needed to own the copyright first and discuss the matter of paying the artist if and when these merchandise items with my character would sell.

    My question is can I contact the artist via email (due to them living in another country) and buy the copyright through email in a legally enforceable manner? Or would I have to have physical writing from both parties agreeing to transfer ownership of the character?

    United States of America for location is where I live.

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    Deceased Parents Will Missing (VA-USA)

    Posted: 31 Dec 2020 11:30 AM PST

    Ok, so, Mom said she had a will, & would have no reason to lie about it. Dad died 5/5/2015. I remember my Mom calling me a couple of times asking questions about the will they were making. The only advice I gave her was, "Do Not make any of us 4 kids the executor! There's too much fighting between us, appoint a friend, or have the law firm you are going through supply one". Mom talked me into moving back home with her after my husband died 3 years ago. My older sis & her bf lived in the house, so did her daughter & grand daughter, who all moved out 2 years ago. But, my younger sister moved in with her son, & a year & a half ago Mom had friends drive to MO & get the oldest - my only brother, & bring him back. He was homeless & is an insulin dependent diabetic. Mom told me on numerous occasions since I moved in with her, that there was a clause in her & Dad's will that said - any kin living in their house when both had passed on— had 60 days to move out so the house could be sold, & the proceeds could be split between any 4 surviving children. (along with proceeds from the sale of their stocks & bonds). And I had told my siblings this..

    In very early March 2020, Mom told all of us kids she had tested positive for colon cancer w/ an at home test. She didn't seem too worried about it, & had a positive attitude. I took her in March (days before the forced quarantine) for a colonoscopy, which didn't get far before it could not move forward. I had been the only one taking care of her. Sis stayed gone for 5-7 days a stretch, leaving her 4 year old son for me & Mom to care for. Our brother is not mentally stable, does nothing but feed himself & get drunk. After quarantine started, I took Mom to a CT scan which showed 2 masses, 1 in her colon, 1 in her abdomen. She was scheduled a surgery, which I took her to & was miraculously allowed to stay in surgery waiting, then accompany her to her room afterward. 2 surgeons each came out at separate times with devastating news... Stage 4 colon cancer, stage 4 stomach cancer that had already spread everywhere . She spent 5 weeks in the hospital w/ no visitors allowed. I cared for her at home for days & nights on end w/ little food & no sleep.. Her surgery was April 9th, she passed away June 10th. I asked lots, but she couldn't remember where the will was.. The day after she was buried, my younger sis was going through her bedroom, frantically looking for the will- she didn't want to have to move out..

    It's been 6.5 months since Mom died. My bf & I have been cleaning out all of mom & dads clothes & belongings. We haven't found the will. But for a week & a half- that's all my sister did. Then her searching suddenly stopped. She hasn't asked us if we found it, & is now saying she doesn't think there was a will! I know she found it & took it- I just have no proof.. I was too distraught after we buried Mom to go in her room & watch over my sister I was crying non stop! Is there a way for me to find out which law firm or attorney in VA. Made their will???

    After Mom died, & before she was buried, sis got on moms phone & transferred all the money in moms bank accounts into her bank account (we all bank at the same credit union) using the app on moms phone, saying she needed all of it to put towards the funeral expenses. She also took it upon herself to make herself executor of moms estate, since she was named moms medical power of attorney while she was dying. She told me, my bf, & brother all separately that she had used all moms money, paid the $1,200. to the cemetery for her burial, & used the rest to pay the funeral home, but we still owe them $5,000. Just a few weeks ago, she tells me- no I didn't say that! I paid the cemetery. But I didn't pay the funeral home anything- we still owe them the full amount.. She also took moms car which is NOT paid off. She has given the 3 of us 3 different stories on where it is. Repo men have been hounding me for info & I haven't a clue. But her bf is a shady mechanic, & I think they sold moms car illegally.. Plus, she still had moms purse & wallet. She lost her job when quarantine hit. But for the past 5 months has gotten deliveries of expensive items she ordered online here, & quite a few of them had Moms name on them! So I also think she has been using our deceased mothers credit card! Can something be done about all of this? She is the youngest, & physically attacked me the day after Christmas when I tried to ask her about this stuff...

    Mom's wishes were everything be divided equally between her 4 children, wether they "deserve" it or not. I need to figure out who made the will & contact them. And any advice on my sister stealing moms bank account money, car, & most likely using her credit card would be appreciated. I am hanging on by a very thin mental thread...

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