Legal Advice UPS driver stole my PS5 right in front of me, and I am mad. No one is willing to help. |
- UPS driver stole my PS5 right in front of me, and I am mad. No one is willing to help.
- Accidentally mailed two items to a buyer instead of one, buyer denied it, I proved they were lying...what recourse (if any) do I have?
- Wife and I had a baby at 15, our parents gave the baby for adoption against our will. Is there a legal way to know where she is, we want to be sure she's safe.
- I've been sick at home with covid for 2 weeks but my employer refuses to pay as my covid test doesn't say whether it's positive or negative, it just says "virus detected". I need advice.
- Is it acceptable for a leasing agent to come to my home and bang on the door excessively/ring the doorbell repeatedly and if so is there a standard for the amount of time?
- Legal Risks of Creating a Landlord Rating Website?
- Protestor honks airhorn outside my building every morning from 7AM - 12PM EST (NY)
- You've heard of tree law- get ready for goat law!
- Walmart cancels $500 gift card, refuses to reissue
- Child’s father requesting daughters therapy records for DCF
- Squatters on rented property (Portland, Oregon)
- Got bit by pitbull tonight delivering for doordash
- Company offered $1k referral bonus. Employee I referred stayed on past the probation period, but I was laid off. Am I still entitled to the bonus (MA)?
- Single New York Father of 2 Desperately needs legal advice - PLEASE READ
- My social security number was used on an unemployment request that was sent to my employer.
- [MD] Ex has been denying visits with my daughter on the court-ordered day. Hired an attorney who wrote up a vague motion for visitation modification. Is it poor etiquette to ask my attorney to make my requests more specific before I sign it?
- Gift certificate not being honored because "manager no longer works there"
- I made an insulting joke in an online survey and now my company is trying to sue me
- Job hasn’t paid me my first two checks, seems to be ignoring/not handling the issue. Almost been two months.
- Won small claims, now bank garnish
- False Covid-19 report sent to employer from health clinic.
- Grandpa went on unemployment due to Covid now they want him to pay the state back $16,000 what are his options?
| UPS driver stole my PS5 right in front of me, and I am mad. No one is willing to help. Posted: 03 Jan 2021 06:26 PM PST This is in Texas. I was lucky enough to find a PS5 console for sale on eBay in December. I wanted it before Christmas to give as a gift, but since the expected delivery date was later than that, I asked the seller if I could get it sooner. The seller said I would have to pay $40 extra for UPS express delivery, which I did. The UPS driver showed up at my house and explained that due to COVID they were not allowing customers to sign for packages, so she would need my full name to enter. She put the package down on the ground and asked me for my name. My name is complicated and unusual (I am from India) so I had to spell it out twice before she got it right. During this process she made small talk and said "you seem excited about this package". I said yes it's a gift for my nephew. She asked what is it and I said it's the new console for the PS. She said "what a lucky kid". After writing my name, she picked up the package off the ground, turned around, and started walking back to the van. I thought she made a mistake so I yelled "excuse me" at her a couple of times, but she was obviously ignoring me. She just drove away and I was left standing there. I first contacted eBay. They said that since the tracking shows it was delivered, they can't do anything. Which is fair, it's not their fault. I then contacted UPS and they said it was probably a mistake and the package should be delivered to me the next day. Which it wasn't. After a week I called again and they said that since it was marked delivered and the GPS of the delivery location is at my house, they consider it done and I can't fill out a claim. I then contacted the police and they took a report but I didn't hear back, so after a few days I asked them and they said they can't follow up but they will inform me if the item is found. Which I'm pretty sure it won't be. So now I'm at a loss of what to do. The employee just blatantly took the package and walked away, and no one seems to be able to do anything. eBay, UPS and the police are all saying it's the other's responsibility. Unfortunately, I paid with eBay credit so I can't even do a dispute with Visa. Does anyone have any suggestions on what I can do now? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 04 Jan 2021 09:24 AM PST Had an odd situation unfold with an online sale. Guessing that I may have no legal ground here, but at the very list maybe you guys could give me some ideas that may scare the other party. Any help is appreciated. I have held two copies of a rare collectors / art piece for a while and decided to sell one of them. A few weeks ago I sold one of these serial numbered items on an online forum for a few hundred dollars. I feared I may have mistakenly shipped both of the items instead of one (they're small and thin, and I had them stored next to each other), but figured I'd look for the copy I intended to keep for a couple days around my house and then send a message before the package was delivered . Sent the message a couple days later simply asking to check if I had accidentally included two copies instead of one upon receipt, and making it clear if that was the case that I wanted the second one back. I wasn't too worried because this user had been in much longer standing than myself. The worst case scenario in my head was that they'd send the item back and I'd shoot some money to cover shipping back and as a thank you. However, the member explicitly said they didn't have the second item, and only received the serial # that I intended to sell. I had no luck finding it on my own in the coming days. A few weeks later I noticed their account on another site (linked to the original forum member's account) listed a copy of this item for sale for a slightly higher price than I sold mine for a few weeks prior. They may have been listing the copy that was honestly purchased, but I was too curious to let it slide, so I requested photos of the item (from an anonymous account) hoping to see the serial # was the same one they rightfully owned and not my missing copy. The user didn't send me an image, so I went full detective mode by purchasing and shipping the item to a family member's address in a different state than my own. Didn't have much of a plan here but mostly just wanted some peace of mind. The family member recorded themselves opening this package (with this user's full name and address visible on the package) and confirmed it was indeed the second copy of the item that the online user had denied receiving. Now, I acknowledge that I sent the user the item entirely on my own accord...but is there any law they broke by lying about receiving an item that was explicitly not meant for that person? My current plan is to send a message and threaten to damage this member's longstanding reputation if they do not provide me with a full refund for buying back my own item, but it would be a lot stronger if I had some legal ammo behind me. Not sure if it makes any difference, but the dollar amount of the item would be considered a felony if stolen in my state (IL) and there were numerous states involved with this ordeal. Thank you all in advance! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 04 Jan 2021 05:54 AM PST Writing this on behalf of my wife too. Sorry for the wall of text TLDR at the end. We're in Georgia if that helps. So I got my wife (then gf) pregnant when we were 15 (unplanned and we were stupid but it happened). Our families are super conservative and strict so that didn't go well at all. My parents sent me to live with family in another state for some time then they enrolled me in a very strict youth program. In the mean time my gf had the baby. I wasn't there because I was prevented to leave the youth camp and even to call her. Her parents grounded her and took her phone and everything but then she left when she turned 18 and we got married and now we live together. My parents and hers said that we were minors so we had no say in what happened with the baby. They gave the baby for adoption and they didn't let my gf have a say. Her parents signed for her because she was a minor, as for me I wasn't there. Now we're 20 and back together and not talking to our parents. I never met the baby, I was forbidden to come back when she was born. The baby was taken from my gf just after she stopped breastfeeding and she didn't see her again and the baby was given for adoption to acquaintances of my gf's parents in another state. She doesn't know who they are exactly, and her parents won't tell. We know that they're in the same cult as them that's all. Not what she wanted at all but she didn't have a choice and there are consequences for going against her dad. Now we're married and we wonder about our baby. Sure a baby can't be raised by two 15yo but she was taken away from us. They said minors just have the right to shut up and obey and they did everything in our name although we wanted to love the baby and raise her with some help until we were old enough. We want a family and we miss our baby, my wife is hurting real bad rn because of this. So I wonder if there's anything we could do to know what happened to our baby. At least know where she is. Maybe meet her if thats possible. That would do my wife a lot of good. Like we're not even sure the people who took our baby can be trusted and she's worried non-stop about this. Now I want to be clear we know we won't get to raise this child now and we don't want to uproot her. Now she's part of her adoptive family and we don't want to bother her but we'd like to know where she is if possible. Also my wife's parents said they've spent money for her hospital bills (she had to have a C section), then on the baby, and if we go against them they'll sue us for all costs. And also that we will owe child support money to the people who took the baby. So our questions are: is there a legal way we can know who adopted our daughter, maybe even meet her? Even if we don't get to meet her, at least be sure that she's in a good family because my wife says there's a lot of crazy people in her parents cult. Also we feel like what they did to us was kind of violent especially for my wife and maybe illegal because we weren't even asked. Like don't minors have a say in serious matters like raising a baby? We were 15 not little children. We feel we were wronged tbh. And do we have to pay my wife's hospital bills and child support and the rest? I'm in trade school (carpentry) and my wife has a job and we're going to make good money some day but right now money's tight so their threat makes us worry. Hope this was clear. Thanks for your help, we're young and we are very ignorant of legal things so we'll be grateful for any advice you can have. TLDR: my gf and I had a baby when we were 15, our parents gave the baby for adoption against our will, they won't tell us where she is now and with whom but we'd like to know to be sure they're safe people, and we'd like to know if what our parents did was legal. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 04 Jan 2021 07:29 AM PST This is in NY. Almost 2 weeks ago I was exposed to covid through my son who was confirmed positive. I've been in bed rest since. Then last week I had gotten tested, I received my results which stated "SARS coronavirus 2-VITALAXIS, Your Value: Detected, Reference Range: Not Detected". I had sent a copy of the results to my manager, to which he called saying that "your reference range not detected means that its actually negative" and that I wouldn't be getting paid for it. Now I'm confused. I've been talking about it with my employer about it but they're saying that I'm wrong and don't actually have covid. I think I'm about to get fired and I don't have enough sick days to cover my absence. I'm not sure what to do. Any advice? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 04 Jan 2021 05:55 AM PST We are having an ongoing issue with a new leasing agent, who we have found is not licensed in our state (Michigan) and is making all kinds of false claims that we owe back rent, have changed locks without written permission etc. None of the claims are true. The last time he came to our home and spoke with my husband, he fabricated a story of what my husband supposedly said (claiming my husband admitted we owe back rent and we just didn't feel like paying it. My husband doesn't even take care of the rent, I do.) Its safe to say we do not trust this man. We are having a ring camera installed in the next couple of days but in the meantime I'm wondering how to handle this and if there are any parameters for what is allowable. He came this morning and banged on the door so hard that it knocked pictures and decor off the walls in one room. He also rang the doorbell 82 times!!! We are also in the process of trying to meet with the actual owners of the property but have not yet heard back from them but didn't expect to quite yet due to the holidays. Also if this agent happens to catch me at a time I'm exiting or entering my residence and I'm forced to interact with him, how should I go about this? Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. He is trying to evict us currently but we are not late on rent and have not violated our lease in any way. [link] [comments]  |
| Legal Risks of Creating a Landlord Rating Website? Posted: 04 Jan 2021 09:57 AM PST Hi All, I'm working on a site that helps people to research rental and landlord ratings so they have as much information as possible before signing a lease - think Rate My Professor or Angie's List for landlords and their rentals. I live in Ireland and plan to start the site for that market only, but if it's successful I would like to open it up to the US. I have two questions:
Thank you in advance for the advice. Happy New Year! [link] [comments]  |
| Protestor honks airhorn outside my building every morning from 7AM - 12PM EST (NY) Posted: 04 Jan 2021 05:11 AM PST Hi, Everyday for the past few weeks my roommates have started hearing this honking sound in our apartment and it would start in the mornings and usually go into the afternoon. At first we weren't sure what the noise was, we walked outside to try to find it one day and realized theres a protestor outside honking an airhorn all morning. We tried to ask him to ease up on the airhorn and that didn't do any good. 311 told us to call 911, we did that and nothing happened. I'm at a loss here, my sleep cycle is so screwed and im woken up everyday by the sound of this airhorn. Is there anything i can do here? Is he really allowed to be out there every morning at 7am honking the airhorn? Theres a lot of NYPD in our area but they don't really do anything about it. If anyone has advice i'd really appreciate it. [link] [comments]  |
| You've heard of tree law- get ready for goat law! Posted: 04 Jan 2021 11:07 AM PST Hey there everybody, this is a weird one but I need some solid advice. I bought an American Boer Goat Association (ABGA) registered billy in June/July with the promise of having his paperwork within 1-2 months, as the woman I bought him from had his kid she was waiting to be born so she could register it. I was fine with this, and under the impression that after the kid was born and registered, she would send me the transfer paperwork, so I could then re-register the billy in my name. It has now been almost 7 months since this all occurred. I have messaged every month to check in, and been told that either they haven't mailed it out yet, that they are mailing it out, or that the ABGA has been backed up doing paperwork from May. I got fed up and called the ABGA myself 3 weeks ago, just to be told that they never had a record of her even trying to register him, and they were starting on paperwork they had received the week before. So they are definitely not behind on anything. Messaged the seller again and got an extremely dismissive response. My husband and I are moving to our farm full time in the next few months and I need this handled before then. I'd like to know if anyone knows where I could start to get my paperwork. Is this a Civil suit? I have a bill of sale, and every message between her and I, this is just frustrating and I feel like I am being jerked around. Would love some advice. The ABGA can't do anything as they are just a registration agency. I am in AZ and she is in Northern AZ Edit: this is a $1k+ goat from a really good show line, so letting his paperwork be up in the air isn't an option. Also the woman I bought him from runs a reputable farm that provides hay for a few big zoos out here, they are active on social media as well. So they have a reputation in the livestock world [link] [comments]  |
| Walmart cancels $500 gift card, refuses to reissue Posted: 04 Jan 2021 12:05 PM PST Hey everyone, Looking for quick advice or info. Back in November my fiance bought a phone from Walmart that was a black friday deal. To get it she had to purchase the phone online and have it delivered and it came with a $500 E gift card once the phone was delivered. Location is MN, USA. The order never showed up and there wasn't a clear answer as to why. We were told that either the courrier lost the order or the warehouse never shipped it. The representative from Walmart said they would cancel the order and reship it, so she was refunded then charged again. We specifically asked if this would void the gift card and were told no the gift card would still be valid and sent to her email once the phone was delivered. Fast forward a few days and the new phone arrives but we don't recieve the gift card as promised. We call again and speak to a supervisor who says they can see that a gift card should have been issued but wasn't and they will send it. They said it would take no later than 30 days and should be on her account by January 1st. We have this conversation recorded and are a single consent state. Now of course the new gift card never arrived and now when we call Walmart they are claiming there are no notes of this and we are not entitled to the gift card. We are trying to escalate this as far as we can and just looking to get the gift card they owe us. But with all of the run around we are getting we are willing to take this to small claims if they keep refusing but honestly would much rather not. Their explanation is we voided the contract by cancelling but it was their agent who cancelled the contract with the promise of still getting the gift card. We're waiting for a manager to call back however this was the manager that just told the latest representative we spoke to to deny the new card so I don't expect it to go well. So my questions are this, are they legally responsible for what their representatives tell us to do? With the recording from the 2nd call would that be enough in small claims where they might just give us the gift card? By following the representative's advice and losing the gift card wouldn't that be false advertising? Like I said we just want the gift card owed but we're tired of letting big companies walk over us so won't take no in this regard. Any advice or information is appreciated, I can add more info if needed, thank you. [link] [comments]  |
| Child’s father requesting daughters therapy records for DCF Posted: 04 Jan 2021 09:32 AM PST I took my daughter (3y) to a therapist behind her fathers back due to her arriving home with dirty genitals, and also showing sexual behavior. Unfortunately the therapist was not able to help but due to being a mandated reporter she reported it to DCF for investigation for red flags. She referred me out to a sexual abuse psychologist which I am now in the process of finding one. DCF visited her father this past weekend, and he is now asking for all of her medical records. Per our paperwork, he is entitled by law to have access to her medical records. Do I have to give him her therapists information? I feel he has something up his sleeve & he has a lawyer. Can I get in trouble for taking her to a therapist behind his back due to unusual behavior I noticed from my daughter? I am located in Florida. Thanks in advance. [link] [comments]  |
| Squatters on rented property (Portland, Oregon) Posted: 04 Jan 2021 12:42 PM PST My family are moving to Portland from out of state and signed a one year lease on a house, starting January 1st. Me and my brother were supposed to get the house ready over the next few days and we have PODS scheduled to be delivered tomorrow with wife and kids arriving this weekend. We got the keys from the landlord this morning and went to see the place. Well, SURPRISE! There are several homeless people camped out in the backyard. There are several tents, and the backyard is a mess. I don't know how many total but they've been there more than a few days. They haven't broken into the house itself but they are hanging out in the backyard and around the house. I called the landlord and he basically told me "It's OK, move in, I'll take care of it". I called the police and they showed up, took a report and said "It's a civil matter, your landlord has to evict them". So WTF do I do now? I do not feel safe and I definitely do not feel safe having my family here. We'll be staying in a hotel tonight and the PODS will be put in storage. Wife and kids will stay in a hotel until this is solved. This is gonna get really expensive real quick. Questions:
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| Got bit by pitbull tonight delivering for doordash Posted: 04 Jan 2021 12:05 AM PST Basically the app told me to deliver to door. I knock and immediately hear huge barking. Guy opens the door, hand him food and one of his pit bull escapes and follows me half way down the driveway. This dog is nice and just jumping on me. Then out of nowhere a second pit bill comes flying out and charges me fast and this bites my ass HARD. Luckily it let go and ran off after. You can see 4 small punctures in my lower right ass cheek.... really sore and hurts to sit but I dont think I really bled? Anyways, I reported a claim to doordash. I'm going to urgent care first in the morning to get tetanus shot, get it looked at and cleaned ect. What next steps should I take here. Should I call animal control? I really don't want to be that guy, but I am really ticked off this happened. The guy acted like here didn't care. He's now texting me he will pay for my quick care visit and that his dog is up to date on their shots. Honestly, I'm sick of people not controlling their animals and I don't want to go easy on this guy, he literally hardly made an attempt to stop his dogs. How do I go about getting proof these dogs have their shots? Should I go for money here? I took pictures of the injuries as well and cleaned it. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 04 Jan 2021 10:00 AM PST Hi, My company (approx. 25 people) started offering a referral bonus if someone you refer gets hired and stays on for 6 months. I referred a friend of mine, who was later hired. Between then and now, my department got laid off and I was let go (no bad blood there though). It's been 6 months, and my friend is still working at the company. I asked about the bonus, and was told that since I'm no longer an employee, I'm not eligible to receive the bonus. That 1k would go a long way right now - do I have a legal foot to stand on, or are they technically right? The policy was never formally written down, but I do have emails that reference the 1k bonus as well as me referring my friend. Thank you! [link] [comments]  |
| Single New York Father of 2 Desperately needs legal advice - PLEASE READ Posted: 04 Jan 2021 11:57 AM PST Greetings and thank you for reading this. I am a single father of two children, 11 and 8, divorced from a bi-polar woman for four years. She is diagnosed as bi-polar and has been hospitalized for it. Our custody arrangement is that I am the primary parent and the kids go to school in my school district. I have been in a relationship with an incredible woman for 3.5 years, she is a Registered Nurse/Midwife and she gets along with my children fantastically, they truly love her, and she respects the fact that they have a mother and does nothing to undermine that relationship. In March/April at the outset of the pandemic forcing everyone to stay in place and the kids to school virtually, my ex-wife was texting me odd nostalgic texts; "Remember when I got that Christmas gift for you?" "What was your favorite trip we went on?" etc. etc. In May, after a particularly exhausting Sunday with the kids, around bedtime my 8 year old daughter dropped chocolate ice cream on our white living room rug and began "cleaning" it by rubbing it into the carpet with her foot. I had spent $250 cleaning that rug a few months earlier after a similar mishap. As I have lost 60% of my income due to COVID-19, which has ravaged my financially, and have been awake at night every night worrying about how I am going to make my mortgage payments and get anxious during this pandemic about any excess expense, I had a mini-meltdown in front of my kids. I never yell and my kids were really really taken aback by it. I literally just yelled for 5 seconds about the carpet and expenses but they were rattled. The next day they were with their mother. She called me and expressed how worried she was, how she was concerned and would help me. She presented it as though I was some very dark, scary figure in their lives. I was open and honest and told her exactly what happened, and how I was reflecting on it. I yelled once in a decade in front of my kids, COVID was making me anxious on numerous fronts, parents yell at their kids all the time, the kids just really were taken aback because Daddy never yells. I did some introspection and shared all of this with my girlfriend who knows how good a father I am and she said to go easy on myself. Two weeks later after returning from my son's socially distant "Moving Up Ceremony" (a 5th grade graduation) that his mother didn't bother to attend I get a call from my daughter's therapist. She apologetically explained that my ex that morning reached out to her and sent a photo of a bruise on my daughter's arm that I had caused by grabbing my daughter. The therapist explained that she did not believe it to be so, but as a mandatory reporter she had to call Child Protective Services as an allegation of abuse coupled with a photo of a bruise had been made. So after the Moving Up Ceremony we waited on CPS. The next morning they came by, inspected my kids, interviewed them, interviewed me inspected our modest but well kept loving home and said "we get this false allegation stuff all the time don't worry, all is good here." The next day was Father's day and at bedtime I wanted to discuss the visit with my kids. My son became very anxious, shaking and hiding under the covers, and didn't want to discuss. I thought it best to try to get him to talk, but he didn't want to. He asked for milk so I went downstairs to get him some. When I returned and gave him his milk a car came down the driveway. It was the police. Six months prior my ex got my son a cell phone, against my wishes, so she could leave him alone at her place and run errands when he is there. After the carpet incident, unbeknownst to me, she told our son "If you are ever nervous with Daddy just text me the word 'help'" He did that night and she didn't call me, she called the police. So they came in, and now my son is now having a full on panic attack. My ex shows up after a few minutes. She is saying I am drunk and harming the kids. Neither was true. The police were extremely professional, helped to calm my son down, escorted my ex to her car, told her to go home and they left. I later got the police report which said "Boy was having a panic attack because his mother had sent CPS, all in the home were safe and fine." Child Protective Services returns the very next day for a follow up and they are taken aback by my ex calling the police, saying that this was a case of a vindictive ex, they see it all the time and give me documentation that all claims against me were "unfounded." Two weeks later on my son's birthday we are in the driveway playing and a man without a face mask comes down the driveway and hands me a court summons. My kids are terrorized. Two weeks after that I am in virtual court, representing myself, armed with the police report and the CPS letter. The judge quickly smells a frivolous case but assigns a law guardian as my ex and her attorney are saying that I am abusing the children and she should get custody of the kids. I express that our daughter really needs to get back into therapy with her therapist of three years.my ex says that's not possible because now our daughter doesn't trust the therapist after the whole CPS abuse allegation business. Three weeks later we are back in virtual court and the law guardian says the kids are wonderful, intelligent and happy, she sees no reason to change the custody agreement. My exes attorney says that as we don't agree on the therapist there should be a 30 day decision making policy and if the two sides can't agree on a matter it should be decided by an intermediary. Fine and done. Again I state my wish that my daughter continue to work with her therapist, even though my ex compromised that relationship. A week later the therapist came to our house and had an outdoor, socially distant session with my daughter and things seemed fine. My ex stated that she wanted to get our daughter to a new therapist, I reiterated my position that they'd worked together and had made great strides over three years. 40 days later my ex sent an email stating that I hadn't agreed to a new therapist so she'd found one, contacted her and was setting up appointments for my daughter, she cc'd her lawyer and the law guardian. It's the clinical recommendation of her existing therapist that our daughter continue working with her. I responded with that and again stated my position that our daughter go back to her original therapist. A week later I get another court summons, for this January, with her attorney stating the children are "suffering" because I was not responsive in 30 day window and am resistant to a new therapist. My son made high honor roll in December, my daughter is excelling across the board in school. The Police, Child Protective Services, a Law Guardian, two therapists, teachers, my medical professional mandatory reporter girlfriend and those in my community who regularly leave their kids in my care and allow for regular sleepovers (pre-COVID). I am a great father, I carry the overwhelming majority of the parenting yet I am being taken back to court. The only suffering my kids have endured is being exposed to the Police, CPS and the summons deliverer. For about two months any time an unfamiliar car turned into the driveway - pizza delivery, postal service, they would have extreme anxiety. I cannot afford a lawyer at this point in time, again due to COVID I am really struggling. I plan on representing myself again because I cannot afford an attorney right now. Am I missing something? Should I be worried? Can anyone offer legal advice on what I should do, as I feel harassed and the target of a campaign. Am I leaving myself vulnerable by representing myself? Thank you for reading this long post, any advice or help would be greatly appreciated! [link] [comments]  |
| My social security number was used on an unemployment request that was sent to my employer. Posted: 04 Jan 2021 10:32 AM PST Today, my employer received a unemployment request. The person requesting is an unfamiliar name, but the social security number is mine. I have sent a report of unemployment to the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment. I have also put a fraud alert on my SSN# to the three credit bureau's. Looking at my credit history, I have not had any alerts on my credit recently. What other steps should I take? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 04 Jan 2021 12:00 PM PST When my ex-wife and I divorced 2 years ago, I couldn't afford a lawyer at the time and regrettably decided to just agree to everything my ex-wife and her lawyer requested (which included supervised visitation at her discretion). This was a huge mistake because a judge would have never ordered supervised visits and my ex has been allowing me little to no time with my daughter. The agreement is vague, but it states that I can have visitation with my 7 year old daughter every Saturday and that the time, place, and supervisor is to be agreed upon by both parties. My ex refuses to allow anyone else but herself supervise and says that her house is the only acceptable location for visitation. She has been denying my Saturday visitation for months because she changed jobs since the order was made and now works weekends, while I work a regular M-F job. She works until 7:30pm which is my daughter's bedtime. Since she will not allow anyone else to supervise, she says I cannot see my daughter on weekends and that I have to make a weekday work. She lives 2 hours away from me so I would have to use PTO to see my daughter on weekdays (I only get 12 PTO days per year). When I do agree to take a weekday off for visitation, my ex says that I cannot exercise the visit unless I agree to switch Saturday visitation to weekday visitation permanently, which I cannot do. I have hired a lawyer to file a motion for visitation/custody modification, or possibly contempt since my ex consistently refuses the court-ordered day. However, the motion that my lawyer typed up for me to sign is pretty vague and doesn't list specifically what I'm requesting. Is it appropriate to ask my attorney to change it and make it more specific before I sign it? Or are these documents vague in nature and the details are hashed out at the hearing instead? Im new to all of this and don't know the etiquette. Basically what I want out of this is: 1) For the supervision to be removed. 2) A fixed and unambiguous visitation plan that addresses clear days, times, length of visitation, acceptable locations for visitation, holidays, etc. 3) For all communication between my ex and I to be done through some sort of court-monitored app (to document communication and minimize the hostile and harassing texts that my ex constantly sends). 4) 50% legal custody The motion that my lawyer wrote up does not specifically state any of this, and rather focuses on my ex's change in work circumstances and requests a modification as a result of that. I really don't feel that I'm asking for much and want it to be made very clear what i am requesting. Also, should I consider asking my lawyer to file for contempt against my ex since she has been denying visits on the court-ordered day? Any advice/insight is appreciated! Edit: Formatting [link] [comments]  |
| Gift certificate not being honored because "manager no longer works there" Posted: 04 Jan 2021 01:22 PM PST British Columbia, Canada Won a 3 month (gift certificate format) membership to a gym over a year ago, signed by someone (presumably their manager at the time). I found out today by the assistant manager that the certificate will not be honored because: "Hello, I just wanted to let you know that we can not accept this as it was given by a manager that no longer works for the company." Is this not a commitment made by the company - regardless if the signing manager has now left or not? Anyone have thoughts or experience on this? Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| I made an insulting joke in an online survey and now my company is trying to sue me Posted: 04 Jan 2021 01:48 AM PST I am 26 y/o Austrian working for a big automobile company. Two days ago we had an in-house survey on mentimeter (a swedish survey platform) As part of this survey with my supervisor and around 100 other colleagues, I supposedly anonymously insulted my supervisor in a question with a text box. I wrote: "Mr. xx is a son of a bit**" I know that I am an absolute complete idiot, but I assumed that it would not have any further consequences since we neither had to register nor give names for the survey on mentimeter. But today every one of my colleagues including me received an email from legal department. They wrote that they will file a complaint and request that the anonymity be legally REVOKED by the software provider and that the consequences under labor law then follow. Can my company actually request my ip address via the survey company and trace it back to me? Should I consider any legal matters if it comes out? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 04 Jan 2021 11:41 AM PST Michigan I work for UPS as a package handler, I was hired in very recently on November 17. During the interview process, it was offered for me to either pick an ADP pay card, or Direct Deposit. I chose the card. It's relevant that I chose the card because even though I started November 17, I did not receive my card in the mail for about a week and a half. Upon activating the card, there's not a dime on the account. Then 2 days after I received and activated my card, it was payday. Money was not deposited and I still have never received it. I've been constantly bugging my supervisor about it since the issue arrived. I'm always told they will look into it or figure it out, but action has not been taken and as a result I wasn't able to provide the Christmas I wanted to my family. How can I push UPS to resolve the issue? I know it's not a ton but 600 dollars (total) is a lot of money to me, and I am being left hung out to dry. If I was in someone else's shoes, I could've missed rent or a car payment or something worse... The only thing they've really told me is they don't know where the money is, as if it's been sent out but for some reason not received. Every day it's the same thing, "we'll look into it for you". Also, I have called ADP and they said there are no impending deposits on the account. Other than those first two checks, my paychecks since the first two have been depositing on my account on time on payday. [link] [comments]  |
| Won small claims, now bank garnish Posted: 04 Jan 2021 02:26 AM PST I won a small claims case and know where this person banks. Unfortunately, I don't have their social security # or bank account #. I'm also not sure where they moved to, but I do have an old address. An attorney said I could still garnish their bank account without this information (depending on the bank). Is this true? This is in California. [link] [comments]  |
| False Covid-19 report sent to employer from health clinic. Posted: 04 Jan 2021 08:28 AM PST Hello! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 04 Jan 2021 01:52 PM PST So basically the title. My grandfather worked for 50 years and retired in Rhode Island. He started to pick hours up from a sign installation company where he could before the pandemic and was working there part time for 2 years before they let him go. He went on unemployment and stopped receiving payments so he tried to extend his benefits and they ended up telling him that he only had $68 to cover unemployment he was receiving and that all they've paid him since he became unemployed will need to be repaid to them. Moneys obviously tight as he's 70 now and can't work full time and almost all of his savings went into a home for my grandma who's also retired. Should they appeal with a lawyer? What type of lawyer specializes on this type of case and how do you go about appealing their decision? [link] [comments]  |
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