Legal Advice UPDATE: Fired for speaking to media about work place conditions. |
- UPDATE: Fired for speaking to media about work place conditions.
- I'm being harassed by a witness in a case
- Is it illegal to show someone porn without their consent?
- Florist Canceled on my Wedding
- Ejecting an adult child who does not pay rent
- Apartment Complex “accidentally” forgot to sign my lease
- Finders Fee?
- Help defending against a protection order that was filed on false pretenses.
- Followed by neighbor wielding a weapon and threatened multiple times
- Crazy landlord retaliation
- I work in a rehab and just found out that I have a client that is a pedophile. He is dating another client who has children, and they plan to continue dating after they leave. I want to tell her but I can't
- Teacher withholding transcripts with no debt owed. What can I do?
- Employer threatening my career.
- Neighbor threatening legal action and harassing us because we aren’t taking care of her half of a joint public easement (Tennessee)
- My apartment neighbors and I have the same key
- Neighbors kids keep scratching my car, pretend to run bicycles into the side and front and are causing a lot of damage
- Rescuing my 16 year old coworker?
- Am I (a US contractor) being misclassified by my Australian employer?
- Gave boat trailer for free - but guy left it on side of road
- My mother married a man with a false identity
- What is fair? (cross posted from r/Divorce)
- (WA state) being evicted by landlord. No signed rental agreement or lease. Made monthly payments
| UPDATE: Fired for speaking to media about work place conditions. Posted: 30 Jul 2021 06:01 PM PDT About a year and a half ago I posted in legal advice concerning the adverse actions a former employer took against my colleagues and I. That post can be found here: https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/fp0rbk/nevada_terminated_for_talking_to_newspaper_with/ It took a year and a half, but we reached a settlement with the company which resulted in 90% of the total amount I would have been paid between then and middle of July 2021, and the company posting a notice saying they won't do all alleged actions, and they agreed to some pretty significant changes to their company policies regarding employees discussing workplace conditions. They waited right up until the hearing with the administrative law judge to settle. I wanted to thank this subreddit, and let folks know the NLRB does fight for you if a company does something that seemingly violates the NLA. [link] [comments]  |
| I'm being harassed by a witness in a case Posted: 31 Jul 2021 09:45 AM PDT Exactly what it said. So I'm going through a case in which I'm being taken to court for. The other party pressed charges and had me arrested. They called my boss at my job causing me to lose my job. They've tried making threats and they just made a long post on Facebook heavily peppered with lies and quite untrue statements. I've gone and made a police report once due to the harassment. But this time is worse than the last. I've been released on an or bond and part of the conditions are no contact which I've been sticking to. What can I do to stand up for myself? [link] [comments]  |
| Is it illegal to show someone porn without their consent? Posted: 31 Jul 2021 11:31 AM PDT Roommate keeps watching porn around me and continues to have a conversation with me when I can see exactly what he's watching. He has also sent me a picture (Snapchat) on multiple occasions from him room and in the background there is porn playing. Another time, I was walking to the kitchen and he was sitting there completely exposed and didn't move to cover himself up at all. It doesn't feel like it's been accidental and it's made me extremely uncomfortable. I'm moving out soon anyway but I want to know, is this illegal? Is it assault? I've told him to stop watching porn around me and in common areas of the apartment but it doesn't stop. [link] [comments]  |
| Florist Canceled on my Wedding Posted: 31 Jul 2021 12:27 PM PDT No legal background whatsoever, so was looking for some basic advice. Seems simple to me (but what do I know). Florist was hired to work my wedding in November '21. Her contract has a non-refundable deposit portion for $1,300 which I understand she can keep in the event we cancel on her. It states that she can keep the deposit "for any reason." However, she just informed me that she is unable to work our Saturday wedding due to the fact that she has another wedding Friday in a different location. Travel + set-up between the two would not be feasible due to time constraints. She just informed us via Zoom that she was going to have to cancel her services. The baffling part is that she is refusing to return our deposit (????!). Her arguement is that she is entitled to provide a replacement for her services. We don't want a replacement. This seems pretty cut and dry, right? If she refuses to return the deposit, is our course of action some sort of small claims court? We and the florist both live in California. [link] [comments]  |
| Ejecting an adult child who does not pay rent Posted: 31 Jul 2021 12:22 PM PDT So, long story short, I (30s) live with my dad (60s) and brother (30s) at my dad's house, which he owns. My brother is a raging asshole. He was grudgingly allowed to move in here because he lost his job and has autoimmune issues that made him vulnerable to the pandemic. Without getting lost in details, he's hostile, paranoid, claims things that don't belong to him (while raging if anyone touches something he thinks is his) and prevents anyone from getting into the attic storage area which is accessed from his bedroom (he installed a key lock). He generally refuses to speak to anyone and ignores text messages and calls. Last summer we tried to have a family meeting after he broke quarantine by going to the shore and coming back with a girl none of us had met, who stayed overnight. He angrily dismissed us without even making excuses. We felt our hands were tied, we couldn't bring ourselves to kick out an immunocompromised person in the middle of covid, and there was a moratorium on legal evictions anyway. Near the end of the year our mother died suddenly. She was generally beloved by everyone she met, with the major notable exception of my brother, who treated her with special contempt. He was cruel to her on a daily basis and blamed her for all his problems. He refused to answer knocks on his door and didn't come out of his room for 24 hours after we got the news, and left us all to worry if he had killed himself out of guilt. Instead of apologizing or opening up about grief he just doubled down on being a jerk. The last straw happened this month, when we were finally able to have a memorial service for my mom. After months of ignoring messages about planning the service, my dad asked him if he was going. He said no, went into his room and locked the door. When my dad pounded on the wall and demanded to know why, my brother called the police and told them he was afraid for his safely (my dad never hit us, even when we were kids). They managed to talk it out on the front porch, but he created a situation where there were men with guns present, and we all know how that can go. We contacted a mental health crisis center to reach out to him, they sent out a couple case workers, but he ignored them knocking on his door, ignored their phone calls, and later left the resource packet they slipped under his door on the kitchen table, unopened. So the moratorium on evictions ends tomorrow. My question is this: I know the process starts with a 30 days (?) notice in writing, signed by the property owner (Dad). He has no lease with conditions to break and does not pay rent. Do we need to include any of the above grievances in the letter? Or is it enough to just say we want him to leave? Does the letter need to be witnessed? Is my dad going to have to prove much in court besides showing the deed to the house? TL;DR: adult brother is a deadbeat asshole, dad needs to kick him out, how do we get the ball rolling? We live in Pennsylvania. [link] [comments]  |
| Apartment Complex “accidentally” forgot to sign my lease Posted: 31 Jul 2021 10:07 AM PDT Sorry I forgot to put in the title but this is in Virginia So I know there probably isn't much I can do but I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place. I have lived at an apartment complex in a college town for the last 3 years. Earlier this year I re-signed my lease. As with students and leases I had to have a guarantor sign as well which my mom was happy to do. We sent it over and thought we were good. They sent a couple emails to both of us in the following months about how we could still re-sign. When I got these I called the office and asked about my lease. They confirmed they had it and I was fine. This happened enough I recorded me calling in the 4th time. As the time the lease comes up the universe decides to throw a curveball and a family member has to have emergency cancer surgery. I get ready to leave and go to pay my rent before I leave as I wouldn't be back before it was due. It was then I found out they didn't sign my lease and I had 36 hours to be out of the apartment. It turns out the assistant or project manager has to sign the lease, which they never did and I'm told if both parties don't sign it I'm SoL. As one would expect at move out time all storage and u-hauls are taken. They told me I will be charged $50 an hour I'm not moved out. I'm trying to move out as fast as I can but is there any legal way to get an extension even if it's just a day? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 31 Jul 2021 12:26 PM PDT Posting this on behalf of my cousin, who does not have Reddit. Yesterday I (32 m) went kayaking in Idaho with my fiancée and in the process, I lost my phone. It was in a plastic bag, so it survived and was found by another person (he texted my fiancée, who is my emergency contact in my phone) Now this person is saying he will not return my phone unless I give him a $75 finders fee. I would have been happy to give him something, but him demanding something gave me a bad taste in my mouth (I have never liked ultimatums) and now I don't really want to reward him for extortion. Do I have a case if he intentionally refuses to give it back? Wouldn't it be theft at that point? [link] [comments]  |
| Help defending against a protection order that was filed on false pretenses. Posted: 31 Jul 2021 05:20 AM PDT I am a 22 year old EMT who moved back in with his mother after my father died to help her and my little sister out. My mother found a new guy very quickly who is not a great person. We never got along, but I was cordial with him since we lived under the same roof and everyone deserves a little respect. Well, for some time now, he has been trying to convince my mother to kick me out when, unfortunately, I have nowhere to go. I make very little as I am currently going to school to become a paramedic. My mom wanted no part of the plan, so she tried to stay neutral, and has for the most part. Knowing he couldn't evict me legally because I paid rent to my mom, who owns the home, and I don't break any laws in the home, he decided to file an ex-parte protection order against me, making up lies about me (stealing, trying to fight him, threatening him, all kinds of fun stuff) and exaggerating some of our verbal altercations, which usually never escalated further than us being a bit disrespectful to one another. Yesterday a constable came and removed me from the home. I am distraught, to say the least. I am homeless now and I'm not sure where to go from here. I will answer any questions anyone has about the situation to the best of my ability. I hate asking for help but I feel helpless here. Anything is appreciated, thank you very much for your time. P.S. I'm not sure if this falls under family law flair because he isn't married to my mother and on the protection order he labeled our relationship as "living together but not intimately", meaning we're basically roommates in the eyes of the court. So I put it under other civil matters, I apologize if I am wrong [link] [comments]  |
| Followed by neighbor wielding a weapon and threatened multiple times Posted: 31 Jul 2021 11:37 AM PDT I will try to make this very short and I will fill in any details in comments if you guys are kind enough to respond. Wife and I were walking our small 20lb dog around our apartment complex. She stopped in some wood chips to relieve herself, and I grabbed my roll of doggy doo bags from my pocket. A woman and her husband came running from a nearby apartment, yelling, threatening to shoot our dog. She was so startled she did not do her business. But the man picked up a large piece of concrete of concrete and followed us well over 100 feet through the parking lot. Repeatedly lifted it above his shoulder like he was going to hit my wife in the head. He flat out said "I'm going to fucking hit you with this. What are you going to do? Take it from me" and continued to basically dare us to take it from him. We continued backing away until we were literally to a fence and then we had to start telling the man "we will defend ourselves, you are way to close to us and need to let us walk away." Threats went on for maybe 3 minutes. His wife (after being slapped by him twice in front of us) convinced him to go back inside. Awe are pressing charges but feel nothing will happen and are now afraid to walk our dog. We live in federally regulated, low income apartments in Washington state. What, if anything can I do for my wife's piece of mind? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 31 Jul 2021 10:05 AM PDT Mississippi My landlord has gone psycho and I've only lived here 3 months. She's giving me the option it leave… more like intimidating me to do so. I paid $900 for a pet deposit. Since I am being intimidated to leave (my family is also being harassed), do I have grounds to sue for the pet deposit in small claims? Editing to add that I always pay my bills early and she has no legal grounds to make me leave. The dispute occurred where she needed to replace the carpets and I asked her to hire movers and she refused. I felt like it was her responsibility to move my furniture since she had time to replace the carpet before I moved in. She went crazy, calling me ungrateful and "little girl" and said I was messing with the wrong person. Lol [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 30 Jul 2021 11:21 PM PDT The title says it all. One of the clients is a pedophile who molested a family member's 3 (yes, THREE) stepchildren. His rehab romance is a woman who has kids, and they obviously plan to date when they leave. Due to HIPAA and general confidentiality rules, I can't disclose any of this information to her. I could lose my job and I'm very happy here, but her kids are in danger. She also is very toxic and unstable not only due to being an addict but because she's constantly fucking other guys in the facility behind his back, and he knows but doesn't seem to care. I know it's not my job to get involved in their personal lives and fix them, but when it comes to kids I feel like I can't just let it slide. What should I do? I am only a treatment tech (glorified babysitter basically) not a counselor, administrator or case worker. I'm not 100% sure what I can and can't do or say Also, I should say 99% of the clients I deal with are wonderful, caring, decent people trying to better themselves. Not all addicts are like this, please don't judge the addict population based on this one post [link] [comments]  |
| Teacher withholding transcripts with no debt owed. What can I do? Posted: 31 Jul 2021 10:26 AM PDT This involves my wife, not me specifically. She went to school for massage therapy in Alabama. She paid the tuition in full, graduated, and moved to Tennessee. She passed her certification test and is applying for her license but apparently there's a difference in curriculum between the two states. So the Tennessee board keeps sending emails back requesting more information or for certain things in the transcripts to be more exact. Now the teacher is avoiding all messages from my wife and won't send the amended transcripts to the Tennessee board. Is there any way we can get a hold of these transcripts without the teacher. The teacher is the owner of the massage school and is the only teacher there basically. And like I said, there's no debt owed. But my wife's deadline is august 30th and if it's not done by then, we'll have to start the process all over and even then we will need the teachers help with transcripts. Thank you. [link] [comments]  |
| Employer threatening my career. Posted: 31 Jul 2021 03:23 AM PDT I'm a Physician Assistant who works in private practice in the state of Florida (where employment is at-will). I've been with my current practice for about 3 years (right out of school as a new grad) and I thankfully am not under contract with my employer. I intended to keep it this way since, unfortunately, the practice is rather toxic, and I never wanted to be legally tied to them in any way. I received and accepted an employment offer with a new practice, and notified my supervising physician (the owner of the practice) of this matter. Initially, he tried to retain me, but when he saw I wasn't going to budge, he stated that I "needed to give him at least 90 days and train my replacement." I perform a variety of roles in the office that I'm really the only person who is adept at completing these tasks. I understand that unfortunately, my departure inconveniences them, and comes at a bad time. Unfortunately, if I acquiesced to this request, I would be unemployed in 90 days. I requested 30 days to give my current employer some additional time, but my new employer cannot wait this long and is urgently hiring. They essentially forced my hand and thus I submitted a written 2 week notice to my current employer. He promptly lost his mind in front of several staff members, including another physician and another PA. Probably 7 or so people witnessed the event. My current employer began yelling at me and threatened he would destroy my career, that my name would now be "garbage" in the world of medicine, and that he will do his best to "fuck me over and ensure nobody will hire me." This was interlaced with other insults, threats, etc. I'm concerned that he will deliver on these threats. Medicine is a small world, and he does have the ability to damage my reputation, but only by means of slander as I truthfully was a perfect employee for him. I've reached out to two employment lawyers, but because it's the weekend, I haven't heard back yet. My practice fully expects me, despite the threats and verbal abuse, to show up on Monday and make good on my two week notice. Any advice as to what I specifically need to ask from my employment attorney once I acquire them? What's the best course of action to undertake in this instance? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 30 Jul 2021 05:24 PM PDT I purchased a home in August, and during that process, it was explained that the roughly 10' between where my property line ends and my back door neighbor's property line ends was a joint publicly owned utility easement (for a gas line) and drainage easement. I hired a surveyor so I knew exactly where the property line was, put up a fence for my dogs, and took care of mowing our half of the easement. In February the back door neighbor filed a complaint with the city, saying that we had not been taking care of the grass on our property. I got the citation in the mail and called right away to find out what was going on. She was referring to the easement - as her half was looking long. I explained to the citation dude that it was a joint easement and emailed him pictures of my land plat and copies of emails from the builder (who still runs the HOA, as the neighborhood is still being built) showing that it is her responsibility. The citation dude was super nice and let the neighbor know that it was her responsibility. The complaint against me was closed. Over the months the grass on her half of the easement has grown to be around five feet tall. The neighbor continues to call the city to try to file a complaint, and be turned down (I know this because citation dude gives me a heads up every time she does). They continue to tell her that it's not my responsibility. She continues to argue. She also constantly berates and harasses my wife and I (she doesn't like that we are both women), has called the cops because a "black man was sneaking around [my] yard" - he was a friend staying with us for a weekend who had gone outside to call his daughter. He was literally sitting in a chair talking on the phone - not sneaking around. We have not wanted to file a complaint with the city against her half of the easement's grass because my wife works for the city and we don't want it to look like a city employee is using city resources in a vindictive way. We have reached out to the HOA guy, but he just said "we don't handle lawn issues - you need to file with the city." Neighbor told us this morning that she is hiring a surveyor to show her where her property line is. I said that she was more than welcome to do so, and once again explained to her that neither of us own the easement... it's an easement. She told me that we will be seeing her in court. I'm so lost and a little nervous. I have my plat and all other records of the easement (and the plat clearly states that we are each responsible for maintaining our half from the center), but I've never been to court before and this whole thing seems totally out of bounds (pun? Pun). What is the best way to protect myself here? Should I be worried? Is there a possibility that this ends up bad for me? We would have taken care of it for her if she hadn't been so mean and had just asked us to help. [link] [comments]  |
| My apartment neighbors and I have the same key Posted: 31 Jul 2021 02:06 AM PDT Much as the title says, I recently found out that all three of our apartments are opened with any of our keys, possibly more apartments but I'm not going to test that. Maintenance has been aware of this for at least two weeks (they made us aware of it when they discovered it). This is a fairly large breach of the security of my home, what can be done. State is Connecticut. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 30 Jul 2021 08:19 PM PDT WA state Basically the title. My neighbors kids have caused a ton of damage to my new car, scratches all over the front/back/both sides. I have their kids smashing bicycles and dirt bikes into the front and sides, causing HUGE dents and ugly scratches. Yes I already have video cameras that have captured each incident. No the parent won't admit it was their kids even tho its their kids (you can see their faces) in the videos. What recourse do I have here when the parents refuse to admit any fault? Can I just make a hit and run report to my local PD? It's gonna need a totally new paint job around the entire car due to all the scratches. I did NOT buy it like this and have photos to prove that. I've been taking new ones each day ETA: some of them just can't be buffed out they're so deep. [link] [comments]  |
| Rescuing my 16 year old coworker? Posted: 31 Jul 2021 07:49 AM PDT When one of my teenage coworkers begged to stay later, saying she hates it at home, I asked into what was going on. The story I got was that her mom never wanted her, and her divorced dad is a drug addict. Whenever her dad would do crazy things, her mom would take off for weeks at a time and forget that she ever had children. Right now she's still living with her mom and her step dad, who she describes as a super strict military guy that's threatened to make her quit her job, take her money, and shoot her dog. But she's thinking of moving in with her drug addicted father, saying he's attending AA meetings. Apparently there were times for the authorities to take her, for instance when her mom tried to kill herself in front of her when she was 12. But they never did. She said that she's thinking about getting emancipated, which seems like a good and obvious thing to do, but said she didn't have a place to stay. I moved out when I was 17 from a bad situation. I just informed them I was leaving, and they never challenged it. I've already told her she has a place to stay if she needs it. But I was wondering what legal problems I might have if she's not emancipated yet. [link] [comments]  |
| Am I (a US contractor) being misclassified by my Australian employer? Posted: 31 Jul 2021 12:44 PM PDT Last fall, I started working for a tech company in Australia. At the time, I lived in Virginia, in the US; now I live in New York. My contract defines me as a contractor, working on this project from last fall until this fall. However, I am really wondering if I and all my American coworkers are getting screwed. A bit about the company setup: The company is majority Australian. My Australian coworkers are full time employees (I think). Americans work the same number of hours as the Aussies, though not at the same time due to time zones. We are expected to work 8 hours every day from Monday to Friday. We are given paid vacation and sick days, and we have the same deadlines and workflows as the Aussies. We're paid monthly after submitting an invoice, but the invoice is always for the same amount. My boss has mentioned that we do the same work as our Aussie coworkers, but "unfortunately" we have to be contractors because we're not in Australia. Is this, uh, true? I know I'm not in the same country as them, and they only operate in Australia...but I think misclassification rules still apply? [link] [comments]  |
| Gave boat trailer for free - but guy left it on side of road Posted: 31 Jul 2021 12:31 PM PDT So I had this boat trailer combo - dead boat for years. It's Located in Poconos area, Pa. I had posted on Facebook to get rid of it. Got maybe 1000 messages than listed for 500 bucks because it was so popular. However, initial guy who contacted me came to take it and since I had promised, I signed over the titles and an as is transfer document that I hand wrote. He texted me 4 hours later saying axel broke and he left it on side of the road. Not sure what to do here - what am I liable for? Do I have to go get the boat or have it towed? Since I signed over everything, am I even allowed to do this? Would appreciate any advice - I didn't set out to screw anybody over but I feel bad about the unexpected turn of events. [link] [comments]  |
| My mother married a man with a false identity Posted: 31 Jul 2021 09:36 AM PDT My mother recently found out that the man she is married to for over 10 years has been assuming his brother's identity. Apparently the brother knows about it and isn't happy, but has not taken legal action. There are supposedly things like robberies and tax evasion involved, but it is just hearsay. We are unsure how to proceed with investigating and reporting him and making sure this guy doesn't do this to anyone else. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks, Reddit. [link] [comments]  |
| What is fair? (cross posted from r/Divorce) Posted: 30 Jul 2021 04:47 PM PDT My ex-husband had trust issues with me before we ever got married... I was not used to being an open person. So he asked for a prenup. The thing is, we just did it ourselves, hand wrote it, signed it, stuck it in a drawer. It basically said that if he and I got divorced, that I would have to pay him $6 million (I make $100k/year), and if I couldn't pay that amount, then I would pay him 40% of my monthly income, and 100% of other money I came into (bonuses, gifts, inheritance, etc) until the $6 million was paid off. I thought it was ridiculous at the time, but was in love and "knew" we would never get divorced, so agreed. Fast forward ten years later, I had a mental affair and we get divorced. We still lived together for the next ten years and even had another kid, but now things have really gotten bad and it looks like we are going to go our separate ways. So now he wants to collect on the prenup, as well as other agreements made along the way that add to that. What do you all think? I don't deny that I agreed to it and signed it, but think it is crazy and unfair at the same time.... especially in light of the later agreements which basically make EVERYTHING his. [link] [comments]  |
| (WA state) being evicted by landlord. No signed rental agreement or lease. Made monthly payments Posted: 31 Jul 2021 11:45 AM PDT Hi all. I am currently in Washington state. My landlord and ex is currently trying to evict me today and has called the cops to force me out now. I have been making monthly payments from rent (venmo) to my ex/landlord. I have a written agreement to pay back the loan. Can my landlord force me out day of? [link] [comments]  |
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